What is Bright Spark®?
Bright Spark® is part of Bridge Innovate's Innovation for Good® programming and is designed to ignite creative confidence with students and educators using design thinking.
Bright Spark® offers innovation competitions for students 4th-grade through 12th-grade to build design skills such as empathy, creative problem solving, prototyping, and pitching.
Students who are interested in STEAM and entrepreneurship compete in Bright Spark competitions to expand their design skills and innovation portfolio.
Students also gain exposure to industry and education leaders such as IBM, Ford Motors, Georgia Tech, and Morehouse College, serving as advisors and judges.
2024 Fall Invention Challenge
Students use the design thinking process to identify a real-world problem, empathize, ideate, and prototype a physical invention.
This year, we asked: “How Might We reimagine temporary housing to help people in crisis?”
“Having my students participate in the Bright Spark competitions using Design Thinking has helped them expand their design skills, empathy skills, presentation skills and has increased their confidence.”
– Steve Sweigart, Johns Creek High School
Invest in the next generation of innovators.
Year on year, sponsor feedback is extraordinary at highlighting the value received in terms of personal inspiration, new innovative ideas, as well as the joy from seeing the students grow their creative capacity. Some sponsors see the competitions as a talent development opportunity and have offered internships to select college and high school students.
Ways to get involved
Contributing Sponsor
Awards Program Sponsor
Teacher Leadership Award Sponsor
Student Team Spirit Pack Sponsor
Teacher Appreciation Sponsor
District Scholarship
Team Scholarship
Make a general contribution
Benefits to you
Gain unfiltered student inspiration for new products and services
Build your brand for investing in youth
Meet social responsibility goals investing in the future creative generation
Engage in a new channel for recruiting talent and interns
Build design thinking within your team by coaching others
Benefits to participants
For Students
Build creative confidence through solving real-world challenges
Collaborate with diverse teams and professionals
Spark potential internship and career opportunities
For Schools
Build student and educator creative confidence
Build stronger citizenship skills by providing opportunities to create community and business solutions
Resources
Innovation tools for all bright sparkers
The Bright Spark resources are designed for students and educators to facilitate learning of design thinking. The resources include curated tools and professional development programs to develop fundamental skills of observing, brainstorming, prototyping, and acquire creative confidence. Along with these skills, build experience working in a highly collaborative environments and solving complex problems with critical thinking techniques.
Spring 2024 Bright Spark® Graphic Design Challenge
The Spring 2024 Bright Spark® Graphic Design Challenge has officially closed!
Thank you to each and every member of the Bright Spark® community that participated!
For this challenge, we asked the question: "How Might We… amplify the benefits of being 'One with Nature?'"
Connect with us and other Bright Sparkers on social media!
If you have any questions contact hello@bridgeinnovate.com
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