Judging for the Conrad Challenge offers a fulfilling experience coaching students, recommending finalists and getting a glimpse at exciting innovations.
The Conrad Challenge encourages creativity, critical thinking, and entrepreneurial collaboration among student teams worldwide. As a judge, express your talent and coaching skills by helping these students understand what they’ve done well and how to improve their innovation and business plan.
Equip high school students with the knowledge, confidence, social skills, and tools to lead change and improve our world.
Inspire students from across the globe to think bigger. The Conrad Challenge creates out-of-the-box solutions about what is possible in our communities and the world.
Complex, dynamic industries need capable leaders who can build on demonstrated skills and experience. The Challenge is a crucible for future leaders and a recruitment pipeline for companies seeking bright, young professionals eager to pursue internships and entry-level positions.
The Conrad Challenge invites professionals in industry, government, research and academia to develop future innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders. Judges learn and apply useful innovation business frameworks developed by the Conrad Challenge and build their assessment and positive coaching skills.
Judges are needed for two of the three Conrad Challenge phases: the Innovation Stage, held online, and the Innovation Summit, hosted in-person at Space Center Houston in Houston, Texas. For the Innovation Summit, judging is by invitation only.
In past Challenges, judges have included professionals holding the following roles:
Analysts, attorneys and IP experts, businesspeople, consultants, category experts, educators, entrepreneurs, executives, founders, innovation leaders, investors, marketing managers, medical managers, military leaders, NGO leaders and managers, physicians, professors, program managers, researchers, scientists and venture capitalists.
Should you register and be accepted as a judge, the following are the expected responsibilities:
The Conrad Challenge will provide guidelines and a coaching rubric to help you write thoughtful and constructive positive coaching on each project. Written coaching includes a paragraph or so for each of five coaching areas to include innovation, marketing and communication, among other topics.
