Student Entrepreneurs Test Skills
Two teams of upper school entrepreneurs competed in a design-thinking challenge at IDEA Space on Thursday, Nov. 9, Sixteen teams from 13 schools participated in the Startland Education MECA Challenge.
The Starland's MECA Challenge is a one-day innovation competition that encourages high school students to collaborate on solving real-world problems. This year's challenge asked competing high school teams to answer, "How might we integrate generative Artificial Intelligence into schools as an asset, not a threat?”
The MECA Challenge introduces students to the design thinking process and seeks to inspire them to become future leaders.
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Aaryan Gadit, Nithin Guduputi, Isabell Kuti, Rian Jacobs, William Keidel, Jackson McNickle, Arjun Mohan, Olivia Taffe, Rachel Morgan, Joshua Thornton and Joe Whitfill represented Barstow. Their pitch focused on how teachers could integrate AI into classrooms to ensure students who needed extra help could get tutoring from AI. They competed with 13 schools from around the Kansas City Metro Each team used research methods and entrepreneurial thinking to develop a solution to the challenge, prototype and test it, finalize their idea and pitch it to a judge's panel. IDEA Space's Incubation Hub and Commons provided the perfect locations for brainstorming, prototyping and pitching.
The MECA Challenge introduces students to the design thinking process and seeks to inspire them to become future leaders.
