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HOME FIRES

Fire is Everyone’s Fight. Home fires occur every 90 seconds and take more lives than earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined.

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WASTE REDUCTION

The Earth is everyone’s responsibility. Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment.

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PERSONAL HEALTH

Wellness and healing are good for everyone. Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

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FOOD SECURITY

Everyone’s part of the food system. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

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BIODIVERSITY

Biodiversity is essential to everyone. It is the variety of life on Earth, including plants, animals, micro-organisms, and the ecosystems they inhabit. Biodiversity is currently being lost at unprecedented rates due to human activities that degrade or encroach on habitats, increase pollution, and contribute to climate change.

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Recognized By The White House

The White House recognized The Paradigm Challenge student STEM contest in 2016

Top 5 Reasons to Join the Movement

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Win 1 of 100 cash prizes up to $100K.
2
Play with your friends for fun.
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You can change the world.
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Boost your college application.
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Your creativity can change the world.

About Project Paradigm And The Paradigm Challenge

Project Paradigm’s mission is to identify, support, and collaborate with passionate individuals and organizations to inspire, lead, and facilitate paradigm shifts in the approaches to global challenges.

The Paradigm Challenge invites students aged 4 to 18 around the world to use kindness, creativity, and collaboration to help address real-life problems. The top 100 entries win up to $100,000 and the first place winners in each age division (4-8, 9-13, 14-18) win a 4-day/ 3-night trip to Los Angeles to attend The Paradigm Challenge Prize Ceremony. Teachers associated with the top 100 entries win grants up to $5,000. The entry deadline is May 1.

The Paradigm Challenge is an international competition open to students in the United States and around the world that was created by Project Paradigm in collaboration with the American Red Cross and a wide coalition of partners. Project Paradigm is a national private foundation headquartered in Los Angeles.

The Paradigm Challenge presents multiple high quality project based learning opportunities for students pre-K through 12. Past Challenge winners lead video lessons that help build student problem-solving skills, emotional intelligence, and character. These videos, together with print lessons and supporting materials, provide students with step-by-step guidance on how to solve problems and innovate kindness.

Project Paradigm funds, operates, and makes all final decisions regarding The Paradigm Challenge.