The Journey Innovation process

Registration & team formation

We raised awareness about program and encouraged students to sign up through social media marketing, email communications, and presentations at partner universities Once registration closed we formed the teams.

Launch event

The program officially kicked off on October 5th, when we held a launch event to introduce the program and its key milestones.

Educational webinars & mentorship

Solution ideation

The teams went through the ideation, innovation, and iteration process. They developed their solutions with guidance from the mentors and the educational webinars hosted by Sustainia

Problem identification

Teams began working together and identified a problem area of interest that they wanted to focus on By October 19th, all teams shared a problem statement. We assigned each team a mentor based on the problem statements

Presentations & evaluations

Students presented a final pitch deck about their solution at the end of November to a panel of three judges who evaluated them based on 7 pre-determined criteria

Arctic Opportunity Day

The program concluded with a celebratory event on November 30th, when we shared each team's solution and announced the winning teams.