Press Release Hult Prize 2018
York University was selected to host a local edition of the HultPrize, the world’s largest student competition for the creation of new socialbusinesses, for the third year in a row. This past week, we saw numerous greatideas which harnessed the power of energy to improve the lives of millions ofpeople around the world. The Hult Prize@ York executive team is happy toannounce the winners of the competition, Team Spark! A team compiled of secondyear business students Angel Huang, Zainab Jangda, Inaara Hasmani and Kevin Wu.They presented an initiative called “Flow”, which harnesses the energy of humanmigration and wowed the judges through their creativity and idea feasibility. Theannual Hult Prize awards one million dollars in start-up funding to the team ofstudents that develops the most radical and breakthrough idea to solve one ofour world’s toughest social challenges.
TeamSpark, the winner of our intra-campus event will automatically advance tocompete in one of fifteen regional finals happening around the world nextMarch. One winning team from each hostcity will then move onto a summer business incubator, where participants willreceive mentorship, advisory and strategic planning as they create prototypesand set-up to launch their new social business. A final round of competition will be hosted in September 2018, where thewinning team is to be awarded the $1,000,000 prize.
EveryYork University student still has an opportunity to move on to the next round. Whetheryou competed in our on-campus event and were unable to emerge victorious, orwere unable to compete all together, you can still apply at the following link:http://www.hultprize.org/apply/. It is not every daythat you are presented with an opportunity to legitimately help the lives ofmillions of people around the world, so do not let it pass you by! Applicationsare due on December 23rd, 2017.
To learn more, contact theexecutive team: hultprizeatyork@gmail.com
Aboutthe Hult Prize Foundation
The Hult Prize is a start-upaccelerator for social entrepreneurship that brings together the brightestcollege and university students from around the globe to solve the world’s mostpressing issues. The annual initiative is the world’s largest student competitionand crowd-sourcing platform for social good, and has been funded by the Hultfamily since its inception in 2009. To learn more, visit www.hultprize.org.