Announcing Our Partnership with ClimateScience Olympiad
Youth STEM 2030 is teaming up with ClimateScience to tell YOUth about the ClimateScience Olympiad - an exciting, free to register, competition for youth globally!
As climate change remains a prominent issue, especially amongst young people, education about the topic has become a very important tool in combating it. We’re therefore excited to announce that we’re working with ClimateScience, a UK-based global charity which empowers people to contribute to real, systemic climate solutions. They’ve created the ClimateScience Olympiad - the first worldwide Olympiad to find solutions to some of the most challenging climate problems. It gives young people a platform to share their solutions to tackle climate change; something we’re very passionate about here at Youth STEM 2030.
The ClimateScience Olympiad is a challenge open to youth globally aged 12 to 25 to find solutions that tackle climate change. Everyone who takes part will be awarded a certificate, with the winning projects receiving a split of the prize pool of $15,000 (USD) and potentially also a trip to Egypt to present their solutions at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP27. Not only that, by participating, you’ll receive an invite to the Olympiad Discord server, allowing you to connect with like-minded youth. The best part is, getting involved is completely free!
It’s easy to get involved! Just register on ClimateScience’s website and complete the 25 minute quiz to take part:
Our partnership with ClimateScience builds on the connection we created at our 2021 Youth STEM Summit, where ClimateScience's Ghislaine Fandel spoke about the organisation’s work. We’re proud to be working with ClimateScience as, like us, they believe education is crucial in mitigating the impact of climate change and that young people can hold the answers to today’s issues - they just need the opportunities to develop their solutions.
Kanika Prajapat, Director of the ClimateScience Olympiad at ClimateScience, had this to say about our partnership:
“ClimateScience strives to get climate education to every part of the world and with the Olympiad we hope to inspire youth to work on solutions that can inspire climate action and mitigate climate change. With Youth STEM 2030 and the team of young and passionate individuals working towards the SDGs, we believe this partnership is a great way to encourage participation in the Olympiad and have more climate solution oriented conversations, research and engagement within your community members”
First launched in 2021, ClimateScience Olympiad hosted more than 12,000 participants from 149 countries in its inaugural year. The award ceremony for ClimateScience Olympiad 2021 was hosted at the United Nations climate summit, COP26 in Glasgow, with Dr. Jane Goodall as one of the speakers. The ceremony can be watched here:
Youth STEM 2030 Founder & CEO Mhairi McCann shared her thoughts on the impact we’ll create through our partnership with ClimateScience:
“Understanding the problem is a key step towards taking actions and developing solutions, and that’s why ClimateScience’s work is so important. We’re proud to be partnering with them on the ClimateScience Olympiad, to make a real impact in increasing climate education, and provide young people in the Youth STEM 2030 with a new opportunity to make a difference. ”
We’re so excited to be working with ClimateScience to bring our community this brand new opportunity, and can’t wait to see the climate solutions the Youth STEM 2030 community creates through the Olympiad!
