Youth Look Up Innovation Challenge 2025 (up to $2,500)

The Youth Look Up Innovation Challenge 2025 is for exceptional youth advocates, storytellers, and innovators with bold ideas to address the youth mental health crisis through digital wellbeing and youth-led movements and solutions.

They will be looking specifically for innovations and advocacy where you…

• Create a healthy and safe digital world with an emphasis on mental health.
• Advocate through programs or strategies that engage with legislative policy or otherwise raise the awareness of ways to mitigate the harmful impact of social media and the digital world or maximize its benefits. Example: AI presents more complexity and concerns for our well-being, mental health, and security. Do you have an idea on how can we ensure that we only gain the benefits and decrease the potential harms?
• Share a narrative that creates a healthy, inclusive, and/or responsible digital world.

Awards of Youth Look Up

• Awardees receive up to $2,500 in funding, mentorship, and the braintrust of a cohort of peers with similar goals.

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Eligibility for Youth Look Up

• Open for everyone aged 18-25 regardless of their location, background or experience.
• Individuals or teams may apply.
• Applicants must be based in the U.S. The majority of the remote programming will be conducted live, therefore, it is strongly recommended that team captains or at least one co-captain is based within a reasonable distance of the San Francisco, CA time zone. (They do accommodate teams who are in other time zones like the East Coast).

Also You might find it worthwhile to investigate : Aurora Tech Award 2025 for Women Founders of Tech Startups ($85,000 prize fund)

Application

Applications are due on November 15, 2024 at 11:59 pm PT.

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