Silicon Valley’s Singularity University is giving one Chinese national the chance to win a program scholarship worth US$25,000 to its academy – all that’s needed is one visionary, high-tech idea that can be implemented and which will positively change the lives of people here.
That’s the key demand of the Singularity University China competition panel of judges, who’re now welcoming applications from academics, scientists, entrepreneurs, or anyone else in China who’s bubbling with innovation. The challenge orients itself around this fundamental question: What new product or service can you create, through leveraging technology, that could improve the lives of 10 million Chinese citizens within 5 years?
All submissions will be judged according to their unique use of technology, feasibility of implementation, and its ability to impact that fairly large amount of people.
The one scholarship winner will be whisked to the Silicon Valley academy – which is on the campus of the NASA Research Park – this summer, where they’ll join the ten-week 2012 Graduate Studies Program that runs from June to mid-August. At the program, he or she will take part in courses with the assembled post-grads, academics, and entrepreneurial leaders – all focused, just as was the winning idea, on getting tech to make the world better. One extended aim of Singularity’s training is that it will enable the winner to return home and foster such ideas among those with whom he/she works or studies.
The application process closes on April 1st; then finalists will be notified by the 9th, and a visionary winner will be selected on April 16th. Finalists who end up being runners up will win some useful design software.
Any interested parties can get the full details on the Singularityu.org website, and then click the ‘apply’ button.