Competition
The Diamond Challenge is the catalyst that propels high school entrepreneurs to the next level through meaningful connections, resources and transformative feedback.
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The Diamond Challenge Difference
Differentiate yourself from your peers
Cultivate skillsets attractive to employers
Identify and pursue your passions
Build a life-long global support network
Prizes
Top prizes fund ideas and higher education scholarships.
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1st place
$8,000
includes access to our Virtual Diamond Challenge Summit experience, summer accelerator, and access to accelerator scholarships.
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2nd place
$4,000
includes access to our Virtual Diamond Challenge Summit experience, summer accelerator, and access to accelerator scholarships.
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3rd place
$2,000
includes access to our Virtual Diamond Challenge Summit experience, summer accelerator, and access to accelerator scholarships.
FINALISTS
1st Place - Business Innovation
Raven Eyes offers students professional quality, lab-produced portraits, sports pictures, and student life photos at an affordable price. Team from USA
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2nd Place - Business Innovation
Bio Flame: Waste to Wealth The team proposed building affordable toilets that feed to a new biogas plant which subsequently supplies energy to new communal kitchens for the community. The initiative would also provide clean water, another scarce basic amenity in Kibera. The proposed project promises proper waste management, eradication of communicable diseases, prevention of food contamination and reduction of environmental pollution, all while creating jobs. Team from Kenya
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3rd Place (Tie) - Business Innovation
BrakeLite is unlike regular brake lights because they change opacity of the color when more pressure is applied to the brakes. This helps to decrease the amount of car accidents, rather than the simple on and off on cars today. Team from USA
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3rd Place (Tie) - Business Innovation
Service with Perks matches busy university students with service opportunities that best fit their interests and passions. Team from USA
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3rd Place (Tie) - Business Innovation
Academy offers a feature-rich web application with a streamlined user interface for students to easily access information they need about courses in their school, all in one place. Team from USA
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1st Place - Business Innovation
Virtual Tutors is an interactive, online tutoring program to be sold to private schools that connects high-achieving students and students seeking extra support within a school. Team from USA
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2nd Place - Business Innovation
Second Rate Studios produces a real-time strategy (RTS) video game titled Protect Your Planet that is simple, yet tough to master, similar to chess. Team from USA
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3rd Place - Business Innovation
Bike Now is a bike shop on wheels. They will sell, rent, and repair bikes using a van in order to service the remote areas of Moldova. They will also organize bike rides and biking events. Team from Moldova
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1st Place - Social Innovation
Huma-Coal is a long-burning processed pellets made from human waste. Production of these pellets would offset the deforestation taking place in Kenya, where trees are cut down to make charcoal for heating and cooking. Team from Kenya
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1st Place - Business Innovation
Spell for Success is an app that helps spellers prepare for the National Spelling Bee. It aims to provide spellers with the resources they need to win the highly coveted Scripps National Spelling Bee. Team from USA
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2nd Place - Business Innovation
Value Addition for Short-Seasoned Foods addresses the low profits in agricultural businesses that has led to inadequate food supply, as farmers opt for other types of crops. They aim to increase profitability by adding value to short-season foods. Team from Kenya
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3rd Place - Business Innovation
Enkel Tech is an app development company that provides users with crowdsourced wait times to local restaurants. Team from USA
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Social Innovation Competition
Modern Reflections creates cool, comfortable, everyday clothing and accessories with the added benefit of reflectivity. The pieces can be seen up to 70 meters away at night, which helps prevent pedestrian traffic accidents. They also support families whose lives have been heavily impacted by these accidents.
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1st Place - Business Innovation
Retracta-Ball Pump is a ball pump that allows the needle to retract back into the pump, preventing the needle from being lost or damaged. This aims to save athletes time from last minute needle replacement runs, as well as money. Team from USA
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2nd Place - Business Innovation
Polar Solis is a windshield that diffracts sun glare by adjusting color and brightness to counteract the fluctuation in levels of UV light. Team from USA
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3rd Place - Business Innovation
Notifica is a unique security company that offers two products: one to address women’s safety and another to revolutionize the in-home monitoring assets.
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1st Place - Social Innovation
Do It For Bunica is a website where migrant workers from Moldova can find and pay local youth helpers to assist elderly family members with chores, solving two problems: youth unemployment and the impact of migration on family left behind. Team from Moldova
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2nd Place - Social Innovation
Fresquiticos is a service that provides the consumer with a soda that utilizes the benefits and avoids the disadvantages of traditional sodas by blending healthy ingredients such as fruits and agave nectar. Team from Costa Rica
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3rd Place - Social Innovation
MentourU is a web-based service that creates a network of college students, allowing high school seniors moving onto higher education to ask for genuine advice, information regarding their major, or simply about student life on campus. Team from USA
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1st Place - Business Innovation
AcoustiGLASS is a wearable acoustic object recognition system designed to increase awareness of the surrounding environment. Team USA
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2nd Place (TIE) - Business Innovation
BoltBot is a mobile and web application that facilitates simple and easy self-service at supermarkets, eliminating long lines for customers and reducing running costs for supermarkets. Team from Jamaica
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2nd Place (TIE) - Business Innovation
PromElle is a peer-to-peer party wear rental marketplace for teen girls to rent and lend gently used formal dresses and accessories from each other's closets. Team from USA
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1st Place - Social Innovation
Elix Incubator is a social impact incubator for teen social entrepreneurs that provides services and education on developing business in a sustainable way. Team from USA
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2nd Place - Social Innovation
Voluntu is a website application, will allow volunteers to track and consolidate volunteer hours in an organization. Team from USA
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3rd Place - Social Innovation
AutumnLeaf Fundraisers is a teen-led organization whose members hand-make and sell items at local community events, donating 100% of the money to charity. Team from USA
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1st Place - Business Innovation
H2ydratiOn is an environmentally friendly filter for the removal of heavy metals, such as cadmium, lead, mercury, and copper, from water. Team from USA
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2nd Place - Business Innovation
CampusSelect is a website which connects high school students in the college search process to current, compatible undergraduates at their desired schools through video chat. Team from USA
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3rd Place - Business Innovation
Project X is a quad-copter that uses indirect propulsion systems in order to redirect airflow which has the ability to conceal propellers thus becoming the safest drone in the world. Team from USA
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1st Place - Social Innovation
Aab-e-Hayaat is an agricultural product that uses enhanced super-absorbent polymer to fight droughts, reduce agricultural water needs by 70%, and cut agricultural expenditure on fertilizers by 50%. Team from Pakistan
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2nd Place - Social Innovation
Paradise Care is a non-profit organization that addresses the improper disposal of plastic bottles and transforms disposed plastics to support cottage industry of emergency lights whilst beautifying the environment and educating the population to prevent future occurrence. Team from Jamaica
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3rd Place - Social Innovation
Digital Bridge is an online portal connecting local businesses struggling with gentrification to web designers, graphic design experts, and other media professionals who volunteer their time toward creating web-based services for these businesses. Team from USA
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1st Place - Business Innovation
BACvision is a modular apparatus that will accurately quantify blood alcohol content (BAC) and the presence of other intoxicants through ocular metrics. Team from Virginia
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2nd Place - Business Innovation
Optiglass is a novel device that uses echolocation and machine learning to give the blind access to greater mobility. Team from Massachusetts
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3rd Place - Business Innovation
Natrion is dedicated to providing safe, affordable energy storage solutions for clean power grids through its revolutionary solid-state sodium-ion battery technology. Team from Connecticut
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1st Place - Social Innovation
MatchMeds is a streamlined, technology-based platform that connects low-income, uninsured patients with charitable clinics that can offer real affordable prices for brand-name medication. Team from Maryland and New Jersey
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2nd Place - Social Innovation
The Oil Magnet is a method of oil spill clean up that combines current boom technology with magnetic nanotechnology. Team from Illinois
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3rd Place - Social Innovation
The SOBROS safe strip is a dissolvable thin film that can be slipped into a drink and turn it a fluorescent color in the presence of drugs like Rophanyl and Ketamine or simply dissolve and leave the drink unaltered in the presence of no drugs. Team from California, New Hampshire and Texas
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Fourth Place - Social Innovation
A platform to give pensioners the opportunity to share love, compassion and life experience with orphans through personal communication. Team from Moldova
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1st Place - Business Innovation
Astrofilter is a self-cleaning filter designed to remove debris from spacecraft ventilation systems, increasing the efficacy of CO₂ removal units. Team from North Carolina
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2nd Place - Business Innovation
Fision is a thin, film-like plastic that adheres directly onto the surface of existing glasses lenses to make prescription updates. Team from Illinois
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3rd Place - Business Innovation
Ditch Dat’s novel, patent-pending pediculicide (headlice treatment) invention kills headlice and headlice eggs in a safe, effective, affordable and eco-friendly manner. Team from Hawaii
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1st Place - Social Innovation
Exhoheal is an affordable post-stroke robotic device accompanied by a doctor-patient communication app to help paralyzed patients recover 30% faster. Team from India and Saudi Arabia
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2nd Place - Social Innovation
inGeniusLearn is a comprehensive software application that hyper-personalizes education with real-time confusion detection and immediate student feedback. Team from Virginia
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3rd Place - Social Innovation
EZ Water is determined to defy the challenge of affordability and accessibility to provide clean drinking water to masses globally. Team from Pakistan