Give Me Challenge

Preparing K-12 Learners with real life skills helpful for their employment. Making students useful to employers by verifying their innovation award wins & crowdsourcing ability.

Currently K-12 leaners have no exposure to real world problems or work, so they don't have the skills or experience to solve real world problems when they apply for jobs. However by providing innovation opportunities students like solving innovation challenges where they solve real world problems, students get experience, awards, cash prizes and recognition which can be verified by employers when they apply for higher education or for a job.

Have you won an innovation challenge/competition, where you have used your skill to solve a real world problem and you think you can send us the proof of the same, then we will verify these information and issue a certificate of authenticity where we will certify that you have won that innovation challenge, the advantage of getting it certified is that you can present it to your potential employer/Institution  and they can verify the certificate online.

Sample of the certificate issued is listed below.

Your potential Employer can verify the information and check the authenticity

The technology used is Wordpress and digitally verifiable certificates with QR codes and data mining to verify the claim of innovation challenge wins. In the future we plan to issue these certificates in Blockcert that is on blockchain but we decided to startout with a much simpler approach for the time being.

• Currently K-12 leaners have no exposure to real world problems or work, so they don't have the skills or experience to solve real world problems when they apply for jobs. 
• Cash crisis or lack of funds, freelancing is not encouraged. for students.
• Traditional hiring process relies on educational qualifications, past experiences, employee referrals, so that means a large section of population who don't have a very good educational qualification on paper or having a good work experience from a reputed employer or without any contacts or referrals are left out, it is very tough for them to break this great wall of 'job offer'.
• No company would like to hire an employee who doesn't have the educational qualification, work experience or the skill set. So the real problem will be distinguishing these people who don't have a proper degree or prior work experience to prove their skills but they have the skillset that can be useful for the company and can turn out to be an asset for the company, How to spot them?
• Dropping out of high school is positively associated with later crime, its very difficult for a school dropout or college drop out to get back on track with a professional career, until now there is no wild card entry.
• Ability to crack open innovation problems are not considered as an asset while hiring resources, as there is no easy way to verify the claim.

By providing innovation opportunities students like solving innovation challenges where they solve real world problems, students get experience, awards, cash prizes and recognition which can be verified by employers when they apply for higher education or for a job.

Have you won an innovation challenge/competition, where you have used your skill to solve a real world problem and you think you can send us the proof of the same, then we will verify these information and issue a certificate of authenticity where we will certify that you have won that innovation challenge, the advantage of getting it certified is that you can present it to your potential employer/Institution  and they can verify the certificate online.

Sample of the certificate issued is listed below.

School/college drop outs, people without proper formal education, people have gained skills through self learning, Freelancers, people who loves to solve innovation challenges, people who have the skillset to solve real world problems but don't have prior working experience.

What are you doing to understand their needs, and how are you engaging them as you develop the solution? How will the solution address their needs?

We are making innovation competitions, opportunities available to them by collecting them and listing it in Givemechallenge.com, now we are giving them an opportunity to verify their open innovation skills by providing them with a verifiable certificate if they have won any open innovation competition, we also would help to connect people with problem solving capability with employers who are looking for talented people to solve real world problems.

Promote the assessment and recognition of skills developed outside the formal educational system

Aadhithya, Founder - Givemechallenge

As of now K-12 Student's are not employable, they don't have a way to earn money to fund their studies and support their family. So after education students don't have the skills for employment, they just end up knowing facts and definitions.

Until now companies hire people based on the educational qualifications, previous work experience & employee referrals, some companies also provide internships and then full time roles but even to get internship then need qualifications.

So school drop outs, refugees, college dropouts who don't have any certifications don't have an option of showcasing their skills, this is where we come into picture, if they won an innovation challenge or competition that means they have great skillset to solve real world challenge, so we will verify their claim and issue verifiable certificate which they can produce before an employer or institution and get hired based on their problem solving ability demonstrated in these innovation challenges.

The technology uses a Wordpress site to list various innovation opportunities, using APIs this is pushed to various social media channels, android app and IOS app.

For issuing the verifiable certification we use QR code verifiable certificates hosted in the cloud, at some point we would want to start issuing them in Blockchain using BlockCert.

The technology uses a Wordpress site to list various innovation opportunities, using APIs this is pushed to various social media channels, android app and IOS app.

For issuing the verifiable certification we use QR code verifiable certificates hosted in the cloud, at some point we would want to start issuing them in Blockchain using BlockCert.

Theory of change or logical framework we define is very simple, we have identified an opportunity in the market and the need, that is people without proper educational qualification on paper, prior work experience from reputed employers, freelancers and refuges find it extremely difficult to get any job.

So by disrupting the hiring the process by introducing their ability to solve real world challenge, that is solving innovation challenges, we open a new window of opportunity for people who were deprived of  such opportunity. The technology and implementation of it is simple, it is just that there is a void and no one has done anything about it till now.

1. Talent strategies for innovation

2. Recruitment fairs vs open innovation challenges – how should you recruit?

3. The Case for Innovation and Talent Management

4. Competitions for Showcasing Innovative and Creative Talents

We measure the progress from the number of users using our portal on a daily basis, the total number of active users for our app.

For the newly launched service of providing verification services for innovation awards we will measure the progress based on number of certificates issued.

• Millions of refugees across the world can look upto innovation challenges to prove their skills and their success in these innovation challenges can be used a full time career.
• Millions of students across the world can look upto innovation challenges to prove their skills and their success in these innovation challenges can be used secure scholarships in various schools & universities.
• Millions of people who are unable to get a job due to lack of education qualification, prior work experience can look upto innovation challenges as wild card entry to prove their ability to solve real world problems, this can be a big ticket to full time job.

Marketing is the biggest barrier we face, we don't have the budget to advertise.

With platform from MIT Solve we hope we will get the necessary media visibility and recognition through which people across the world will understand the service we provide and join in our mission of making innovation opportunities accessible to all.

We are a small team of innovators, who believe in conquering challenges and inspiring people around the world to take up new challenges, encouraging people to come up with their own inventions and innovations.

"I have started Givemechallenge to make innovation opportunities accessible to all, my goal is to connect bright talent with some of the most innovative companies in the world solving challenges in various sectors, I have managed to win 45+ grand innovation challenges till date, in fact Givemechallenge was started out of a small Innovation award cash grant that I won for an product invention of mine. We are trying to keep Givemechallenge self sustainable and we are trying to come up with tools and apps for helping youth to discover great opportunities to take their careers to the next level. I invite anyone across the globe to reach out to me directly if you think we can help you or you can help us in this pursuit.” - Aadhithya, Founder (Givemechallenge)

1. Full time staff - Aadhithya, Founder

2. Other workers - Part time/freelancers are hired for posting content in the platform

3. Platform developer - Freelancer hired as per work

Aadhithya - Founder, Givemechallenge

Aadhithya is a passionate Innovator, inventor and the winner of 50+ International innovation challenges till date, spanning across various industries solving a variety of challenges by cross pollination of technologies across industries.

Aadhithya the founder of Givemechallenge.com is an award winning innovator, he has received 50+ global innovation awards travelling across 19+ countries in the last decade. You may please read more about him in a blog interview written by famous Crowdsourcing and Innovation platform called Eyeka in France here.

We work with various innovation consultancy platforms in listing their innovation opportunities in our platform helping them connect to the bright talent.

We also help promote various innovation opportunities organized by various companies, for example:- This innovation challenge from Solve and many more.

We are applying to this challenge as we believe Octava Social Innovation Challenge may help us provide us with in-kind resources, including skills-based mentorship, media opportunities, networking connections with experts and key industry leadersand other activities to help incubate, scale, or accelerate solutions across Latin America and the Caribbean which will help bring leads for our Innovation award verification services.

We are also looking for funding through the cash prize which will help scale the platform to a global repository for innovation opportunities and providing a repository of verified innovators, companies can hire people from this talent pool.

We provide innovation opportunities listing across the globe, also the newly launched innovation award verification service is online and does not have any geographic boundaries.

We provide innovation award and skill verification service for a small fee, which can be digitally verified by employer when they are recruiting the candidate, we also help match innovators with the companies looking for innovators.

• Connect with all innovation challenge platforms that organizes these innovation challenges, there are hundreds of platforms based on the listing of various innovation opportunities till now in our platform.
• Issuing a universal certificate verify the accomplishment of winning an innovation challenge and skill used for the same.
• Partnership with media houses to get visibility about our innovation portal and innovation award verification services.