Cashtivity Challenges for Work & Life

We will develop a series of culturally relevant & creative Challenges to support entrepreneurial capacity in youth.

Cashtivity is a library of real world, creative challenges for teaching essential learning content collaboratively in class through entrepreneurship.  Our framework is based on our award winning Build a Business project based learning engine:

We've successfully entered the US K12 middle school math & STEM market with a set of standards aligned real world Challenges & we're receiving interest in scaling these to schools across the world, including Australia, UK, Middle East & parts of Europe & Asia.  Our core strength is content curation through custom digital formats which we share with authors & writers and host on our proprietary functionally rich web based real time, API based platform.  Our proposal to Solve is to create a series of culturally appropriate & creative challenges to inspire & immerse students in role play as an intern or expert solving real world problems, taking on employment, entrepreneurial and financial challenges that are relevant & meaningful.  Accessing children and teens through their formal  education is our core strategy for enabling capacity building in youth. We believe this is a more sustainable and scaleable approach and can be applied universally.   To do this, we would build partnerships to access schools, with technology companies like Microsoft and also work at the grassroots with teachers, like Stephanie Conklin, PhD: 

https://youtu.be/zxCDvWnwPnk

We are open to working with NGOs and higher ed partners to deliver & scale our solution for Solve.We're backed by a leading US edtech angel investor, Jean Hammond & she is our referee for the Solve Challenge. 

The problem we see is that schooling values teaching of abstract skills (like math) over life skills.  Yet students spend a significant amount of time at school, so it is a perfect place for engaging them.  The problem is to create life skills based content which aligns to core teaching requirements (like math, science, english etc).  

Our theory of change is simple:  if we make school based learning content relevant & inspirational for students, we can engage teachers willingly to  bring in real world connections into their teaching (which they are required to do by law) and through this, we help build life skills capacity. This creates the bridge between the traditional teaching content & methods and the needs of real world street smarts for disadvantaged (and frankly, for all) youth. 

The impact is making traditional learning more relevant to students.  We have students hungry to do Cashtivity Challenges, they are fun and engaging. Teachers also benefit as finally they have high quality real world content they can teach with. We will deploy through digital by partnering in country with leading partners (NGOs, higher ed, education providers) and in the US, directly with schools and districts.  

In school surveys. - 80% or more of students want to do more challenges.

In school surveys. - Teachers rank us 8, 9 or 10/10 for learning content and would teach with Cashtivity