Win a Scholarship: Participate in the Innovation 360 Competition
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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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.
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