EV Scholarship Challenge

Inspiration

Solution context: According to “Houston Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenges” from 2019 Houston’s Climathon, “Many people lack awareness of the pocketbook benefits of EVs, the subsidies available to EV purchasers, the environmental and health benefits of EVs, and the positive experience of driving an EV. Awareness is a key driver for increasing EV adoption in a region.”

What it does

Climate Impact of the Solution: EV Scholarship Challenge

• Promote the environmental benefits of zero-emissions mobility.
• Address the financial benefit of EV.
• Build connections with companies and educational institute that promotes EV awareness.
• Help the consumers in Houston discover a wide-range of EV models.
• Encourage the ownership of a EV.
• Start an awareness trend for EV in social media.

How we built it

Our project is in the idea stage. Nonetheless, following is our solution description. EV Scholarship Challenge has two categories, which means there will be two winners. Also, the runner-up gets a prize, too!

$1500 Essay Category: Write a maximum of 1000 words essay about the benefits of riding EV in Houston.

$1500 Social Media Category: Post a picture with a caption “Where is EV?” with a car emoji. Post it on social media and whoever has the most “likes” within one week since the posted date wins. (Hint: Take a photo with celebrity, if possible. Be as creative as you can to get to reach your goal!)

Make sure to make your post public, so that we can keep the count for the “likes.” You will not get the credit, if we cannot see your post. Follow our Tweeter, Instagram, and Facebook page to check if we got your score correctly.

Runner-up for both categories gets a electric scooter.

This program recognizes that researching, writing, and marketing as all unique and essential talents that we need in the EV market. Use the talents you have and raise awareness to better our planet!

Deadline for both categories: December 00, 0000

Eligibility: Full-time college or university student in United States – must provide proof of enrollment on the form* *The form to turn in the essay or the link to the participants post will be provided on the webpage. The challenge is a low-costing program that could be a very effectively raise the awareness for EV.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge is fundraising for this scholarship program. Our challenge is to find a sponsor to sponsor this scholarship program.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Sohee Park has applied to thirteen scholarships over the summer and earned $3000 scholarships. We believe that scholarship is a great way to educate the public, especially students who will make difference in the future.

What we learned

We learned that it is important to help the public understand that EV is for everyone. That is how we can bring change to Houston.

What's next for EV Scholarship Challenge

Future plans of the team How to start this challenge: • Create the scholarship webpage. • Create a place to turn in the essay. • Create a Tweeter, Instagram, and Facebook account. • Gather $3000 and the money to buy the electric scooter. Ideal situation would be that a company like Tesla would sponsor this scholarship. Also, an electric scooter company could donate two scooters and have their name mentioned on the scholarship webpage.

How to maintain this challenge: • Hire someone who will update the top 10 people with most “likes” on the various social media platform. (e.g. Twetter @SallyJames received around 550 likes within a week. @JustinRocks received 500 likes within a week.)

How to finish this challenge: • Have a judge or judges read the essays. • Award the winners.

Built With

• social-media
• website