{"id":375,"date":"2017-02-02T15:28:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T23:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2019-06-05T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T22:32:08","slug":"samsung-solve-for-tomorrow-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/samsung-solve-for-tomorrow-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/solvefortomorrow\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> organized by Samsung, is for nationwide public schools from grades 6th to 12th. It challenges teachers &amp; kids to apply STEM driven ideas to solve local problems and improve their local communities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can participate in the contest during the fall of every and a teacher submits the application. Samsung selects 250 state finalists and they go through multiple rounds till they are down to 10 national finalists, who take part in a demo day (early April), where 3 winners are selected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samsung taking a nice holistic approach to this contest. It is much more than a contest:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First the obvious, lot of big prize packages that include Samsung tech &amp; classroom resources, for all state finalists and beyond.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samsung employees will mentor the state winners &amp; beyond<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samsung thinks of all the contests as family and has developed alumni programs to support their STEM journey beyond the contest year. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is just a wonderful contest. Check out the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/solvefortomorrow\/winners.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">winners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> page and how &amp; what the winning teams have done. Good luck to all Pieneers! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Image Credit: Thanks to qimono via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pixabay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This contest organized by Samsung, is for nationwide public schools from grades 6th to 12th. It challenges teachers &amp; kids to apply STEM driven ideas to solve local problems and improve their local communities. You <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/samsung-solve-for-tomorrow-contest\/\" title=\"Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-competitions","8":"tag-local","9":"tag-stem"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}