The Aspen Challenge launched in partnership with Chicago Public Schools in Chicago for the first time in 2016 and will continue in 2017 for a second year. Forty teams from across the city will have designed solutions.
The Aspen Challenge launched in partnership with Chicago Public Schools in Chicago for the first time in 2016 and will continue in 2017 for a second year. Forty teams from across the city will have designed solutions.
The Aspen Challenge launched in partnership with Chicago Public Schools in Chicago for the first time in 2016 and will continue in 2017 for a second year. Forty teams from across the city will have designed solutions.
The Aspen Challenge launched in partnership with Chicago Public Schools in Chicago for the first time in 2016 and will continue in 2017 for a second year. Forty teams from across the city will have designed solutions.
The Aspen Challenge launched in partnership with Chicago Public Schools in Chicago for the first time in 2016. We're back for a second year and 20 new high schools are participating in the Challenge.
Read on to learn more about this year's programming.
With nearly 454,000 total students and over 106 high schools, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) serves all of the city's neighborhoods and is the fourth largest district in the country. The district's vision is to ensure that every student in every neighborhood will be engaged in a rigorous, well-rounded instructional program and will graduate prepared for success in college, career and life.
Brian Bannon
I challenge you to design the new 21st century library experience to illustrate the power of people and information while inspiring and engaging your peers.
Daniel Rogers
I challenge you to empower your peers to understand the financial rules that govern their lives and implement a method for enabling them to maximize the rules for their benefit.
David Lang
I challenge you to illuminate the unknown in your community, whether that’s within the natural wirld or built environment, by creating a citizen science project and sharing your discoveries with the world.
Kimberly Reese
& Andrea Boakye
We challenge you to expand the market of fresh, nutritious and affordable foods through mobile markets, farmer’s markets, school markets or corner stores in underprivileged areas. You are the bridge between farms and neighborhoods that will empower and enhance communities.
Eric Dawson
I challenge you to unleash peace to counter the culture of violence present in your community.
Jessica O. Matthews
I challenge you to reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in underprivileged neighborhoods have equal opportunities to be creative, play and become the social inventors for their communities.
Partner of the Funder's Collaborative on Youth Organizing's Youth for Healthy Schools initiative