The Industry Ideas and Innovation Challenge is for teachers, high school/college students and adults (EVERYONE) in Santa Cruz or Monterey County in need of access to local challenges to showcase your innovations, ideas, and products. Your projects will receive industry expert feedback and an opportunity to earn prize money.

This is an opportunity for local students enrolled in high school, community college, trade school or university to participate in a regional challenge and to easily weave project-based learning into a course or pathway.

• Perfect as a capstone for CTE Pathways where students create projects, provide services or learn a skill that is marketable.

• Can also be used as a standards-based project for multiple core subjects: Economics, accounting, science & math, etc.

• Satisfies the competition piece for Perkins leadership via alternate strategies