Better living through STEM?
Samsung Electronics America hopes so.
That’s because the corporation’s Solve for Tomorrow contest has again clicked over for 2024.
Samsung launched the competition in 2010 as a way to encourage creative thinking and problem-solving in society, using the components of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).
Morgantown High School was most recently one of 300 finalists nationwide during the 2022 competition.
Solve for Tomorrow is open to all public high school and middle school students across the U.S. Over the years, its budding-futurist competitors have taken everything from school safety to emotional wellness.
A high school in Florida formulated an app geared to detect the onset of sport-related heat stroke on the playing field.
Another high school in Texas devised a monitoring system to help prevent the scourge of colony collapse in the bee population.
High-schoolers in Georgia created a monitoring system and accompanying app geared to reduce the prevalence of “night terrors” among veterans and others suffering from post-traumatic stress for their entry.
And a team in California came up with technology to provide an early warning for wildfires.
Samsung annually awards more than $2 million in classroom supplies and its corporation’s technology to participating schools in Solve for Tomorrow.
In the 15 years of the competition, that comes out to more than $27 million in money and related technology, Samsung said.
Some 600,000 students, the corporation adds, have made up the teams submitting entries over the years.
“We’re immensely proud of what Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and participating schools, students and teachers have achieved for the benefit of their communities,” said Ann Woo, who heads the Corporate Citizenship division at Samsung Electronics America.
A competition that represents under-resourced Title I and rural schools, while fostering and encouraging the lead roles in STEM taken by the female students who participate, is especially meaningful, she said.
“We can’t wait to see the creative and empathetic solutions Gen Z and Gen Alpha students will develop this year.”
Visit Samsung.com/solve for contest particulars and to enter. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. Oct. 24.
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