Foundation4Innovation
Industry Ideas and Innovation Challenge
Santa Cruz & Monterey County Schools.
Foundation4 Innovation (F4I) recognizes this need in our community and in 2021 launched our first annual “Industry Ideas and Innovations Challenge (I3C).” We conducted three challenges 2022 and have four challenges scheduled throughout 2022-2023.
This competition is backed by the Harry Singer Foundation and is aligned to the SBA (Small Business Administrations) format for writing a business plan, and covers many of the standards for financial literacy, innovation, critical thinking, technological proficiency and college and career readiness.
This is an opportunity for local students 13-25 enrolled in a local high school, community college, trade school or university to participate in a regional challenge and to easily weave project based learning into a course or pathway.
This unique opportunity is a perfect capstone for CTE Pathways where students create projects, provide services or learn a skill that is marketable.
This program can also be used as a standards based project for multiple core subjects:
Economics, accounting, science & math, etc.
This challenge satisfies the competition piece for Perkins leadership via alternate strategies
