Source: www.educationuk.org/nigeria-innovation360.htm
Innovation 360 is a competition designed to discover innovative minds across Nigeria; people who have the kind of ideas that will help solve challenging problems and move the country the next step up. If you’ve got what it takes, then get involved and join us on this adventure of creative discovery.
Innovation 360 is a competition designed to showcase your innovative skills and lay the foundations for a great future. You could win a full scholarship to study a master’s degree in the UK worth over N3.5million naira.
What is Innovation 360?
Innovation 360 is a 10 weeks national competition starting from Monday 14 September and ending 21 November, 2009. It is a competition designed to discover innovative minds across Nigeria with the hope that they will help solve challenging problems across the country with their innovative skills.
How is the competition scheduled?
Every 2 weeks, on Monday, (i.e. September 14, September 28, October 12 and October 26) we will unveil a new challenge to test your innovativeness and creativity.
If you believe you’ve got the solution to the week’s challenge, simply send the top lines of your idea in 160 characters to our SMS short code – 32326 by Wednesday of the first week (you can send in as many ideas as you want). We will send you a response text to confirm receipt of your idea.
Our in-house screeners will shortlist all SMS received down to the 30 best ideas by Monday of the second week. If yours is one of them, you then get to send in a 750 words description of your bright idea to us. This must come in by Wednesday of the second week.
The top 10 ideas are shortlisted and a telephone interview conducted. By the end of the second week, we will pick the top 5 ideas for the week that then go on to the finals.
This cycle takes place 4 times. At the end of the fourth Task (after 8 weeks), we will have 20 shortlisted people who go on to the grand finale.
The Grand Final
The Grand Final will be a Board Interview in Lagos. All 20 participants get to face a Board comprising of high profile UK Alumni, UKBA and British Council representatives, with different individual and group tasks to test their creativity and innovativeness to the utmost.
At the end of this full day process, the Board will select the final winners for the competition and their names will be announced at The Awards Ceremony which will hold in the evening of the same day.
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To my persoal opinion i don’t think that the “climate change” should be named so.
rather it should be called “Change of a climate” because of the human phenomenon that’ve predominantly involved, wich bring about the change in the climate.
Thank you for this valuable post. It changed my idea.
Innovation 360 in itself is mind provoking, i have not participated yet but have had a serious personal reflection on the title of the program which has been of great mental advancement to me. Keep up the good work.
The innovation 360 is a welcome development to discover the next generational heroes
Nigeria for the past 49 years has been wobbling and fumbling both economically and politically despite being endowed with abundant human and natural resources. The reason being greed backed up by corruption by persons at the high places, as well as the selfish desire to cling too long to power and amass more wealth. Innovation360 arrived at the appropriate time and should be seen and embraced by Nigerians as an electronic national conference designed to give every literate Nigerian an opportunity to provide his/her constructive and well thought out ideas on the way forward without fear or favour.
THANK YOU FOR INNOVTING THE COMPUTER WHICH ALLOW US TO INTRACTAND BROUGHT US OUT OF DARKNESS.
we appreciate you.happy anniversiry.we benefit alot from you.thanks
i participated in the first part and sent my idea to 32326 and i got a reply to send my name email and no back i have not gotten any info scince i did that. cos i got a message that i have been shortlisted for the next phase of the competition
This is a mind blowing and thought provoking contest. Guess i missed this series. Would like to sign in for the next series. Please Keep me posted. The world is about to witness a new dawn.
thanks for what innovation360 are doing to help nigerians. please, notify me for 2010 competition. thanks
Just saw the ad in today’s guardian wonderful idea.just sent in my entry.
I read about the 2010 Innovation 360 in Guardian newspapers today. I want to be part of it. Thank you
im interested in your progamme
I am so overwhelmed by this programme. Just read about the 2010 Innovation 360 in Guardian newspapers today.I am definitely interested
This is a wonderful opportunity for the intellectually-endowed but financially less priviledged youths of Nigeria to broaden their horizon by acquiring the best of education.
i only come to know of this programme and going by the scheduled it appears am already late. notwithstanding i will be much grateful if am notify via my e/mail of subsequents one. thanks
This is just great! Unfortunately, I read about it five minutes ago from the daily trust! I would want to be notified on subsequent competitions,please!!!!
The Innovation 360 is a welcome development.I was hinted about this concept by my guardian prof,m.u Adikwu of UNN.The innovation 360 will help up coming nigerian students to develop their mental ability so as to enable them compit effectively with their counterpart world over.
where is the topic?
just read about this today,sort of disapointed, really need early prompting of this
Just stay tuned to the site, okay? http://www.whichlevel.org
Will keep you updated.
i luv this
it is something worth doing and well indeed. please keep me informed for the next version of it.