CCC 2023 Engineering Through the Ethics of Care Video

The UNH Community Changemaker Challenge is an idea-stage competition for high school students, in which entrants identify a social, environmental, or economic problem in their community, region, or somewhere else in the world, and use an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to address it.

This challenge model is based on the highly successful NH Social Venture Innovation Challenge (SVIC), held annually at UNH. Over the years, the SVIC had many high school teams enter in its Community Track (indicating interest and demand on the part of high school teachers and students) but few have succeeded competitively due to the seasoned abilities of their older competitors. For the last few years, we have been piloting a High School Track in order to level the playing field for these students, and use it as an educational opportunity to teach skills in design, empathy, research and civic engagement. Today the SVIC High School Track has evolved into the Community Changemaker Challenge!