This is your opportunity to use your imagination, creativity, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) skills to solve one of the world’s most important problems. Whether you’re passionate about protecting the planet, improving people’s health, or creating better cities, your ideas can help change the world!
The United Nations has set 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to help make the world a better place by 2030. In this competition, you will focus on one of the following goals:
- SDG 2: Zero Hunger
- SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being
- SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
- SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
- SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- SDG 13: Climate Action
- SDG 14: Life Below Water
- SDG 15: Life on Land
You’re encouraged to choose a goal that excites you and use STEM to come up with innovative solutions. Whether it’s designing a new app, creating a gadget, inventing a green technology, or finding ways to educate and inspire others — your creativity is key!
So, what’s your solution to a better future? Let’s bring those ideas to life and show the world how girls in STEM can make a real difference! The challenge is on!
Age Groups:
- Juniors: 5-8 years
- Intermediate: 9-12 years
- Senior: 13-15 years
Deadline for submissions: 30th April 2025
Awards Ceremony: May 2025 (date TBA)
Are you ready to change the world? Let’s get started!
Major Challenge Submission Guidelines:
You will be required to submit a video as part of your Major Challenge submission. Your video can feature a mentor and up to 2 students explaining and demonstrating the project. If it is not practical to film the project, your video could show photos together with a narrated explanation of your exploration.
Your video should be at most 5 minutes long and student(s) should do at least 75% of the explanation.
The mentor’s role is primarily to encourage and guide students during the competition; to assist with dangerous tasks (e.g. using a stove or sharp utensils); and to help support students as they formulate ideas for their Major Challenge project.
Participants should answer the following questions in their video:
- What is your project about?
- What have you learnt from this project?
- How might your project be useful for society?
- Why did you choose to participate in the Robogals Science Challenge and why should other students participate?
Participants will also be required to answer the following questions in their written submission:
- Why did you choose this project and how did you come up with this project idea?
- What did you enjoy most about this project?
- What have you learnt from this project?
- How did your project improve and/or change your understanding of STEM?
- How did your mentor help you?
- STEM is needed for the progression of society. How might your project be used in society? What are some of the broader uses and implications of your project?
Participants in the Intermediate and Senior categories will be asked to address an additional question:
- Briefly explain:
– The underlying scientific theories/principles behind your project
– Why you chose this method and equipment
– If you carried out an experiment: Is the experiment is an accurate and repeatable experiment, and why
– Any formulas or calculations used in your project
Your response to Q7 should be half a page to one page in length.
Submission Guideline
Please use the form below to make a Major Challenge submission. If there are any issues send us an email at sciencechallenge@robogals.org.
Previous Major Challenge Prompts:
2020: What does a sustainable 2030 look like for your country? (in collaboration with KPMG)
2021: What are emerging and proven technologies that we can use to improve the supply of important products around the globe (eg. food, vaccines, etc)? (in collaboration with KPMG)
2022: How can humans work to better co-inhabit Earth with our natural environment? (in collaboration with KPMG)