Publication date: 07.04.2022
After School Support for Teens program - ASSET, in partnership with the IPKO Foundation organized the Design Challenge competition for the fourth year in a row. ASSET Program and IPKO Foundation have a similar objective, i.e. to support and prepare Kosovo youth to live and work in the 21st Century. The objective of the challenge this year was to bring together young and innovative minds from different secondary schools of all over Kosovo to compete in the following five challenge categories:
1. Creating career videos;
2. Creating a device for measuring the noise level;
3. Creating a device for saving electricity;
4. Creating a smart plant cultivation farm;
5. Solving a problem in school.
The evaluation panels were comprised of USAID, MESTI, MED, FLOSSK, Cacttus Education, BONEVET, SmartBits, TOKA, IPKO Foundation, Flammorum and ASSET Program representatives.
The program in cooperation with IPKO Foundation organized on March 17th, an exhibition of the winning projects and the award ceremony for the winning schools. The ceremony was attended by representatives of MESTI, USAID, students, teachers, members of the evaluation panel and partner organizations.
Moments from the Design Challenge Competition Award Ceremony
Winners of Design Challenge 2022:
The challenge of creating career videos:
• The first place: “Xhevdet Doda” – Prishtina
• The second place: “Qendra e Kompetencës” - Ferizaj
• The third place: “Kuvendi i Arbërit” – Prizren
To watch full videos of winning schools of the Career-profession Video challenge, please visit Busulla.COM
The challenge of creating a device for measuring the noise level:
• The first place: “Gjon Buzuku” - Prizren
• The second place: “Gimnazija” - Kamenica
• The third place: “Jeta e Re” - Suhareka
The challenge for creating a devise to save electricity was disqualified from the competition due to the failure of such projects/works to meet the required criteria.
The challenge of creating a smart farm:
• The first place: “Gjon Buzuku” - Prizren
• The second place: “Gimnazija” - Kamenica
• The third place: “Jeta e Re” - Suhareka.
Special prizes were sponsored by KCDF, BONEVET, Flammorum and FLOSSK.
KCDF will offer: 100% coverage of the cost for certification in ECDL START (four ECDL modules as well as the registration cost, which applies to all modules around the world) and books and e-contents for the respective modules in amount of EUR 105/person. This has been offered to 10 students who had worked on the winning project for creating the video of professions.
BONEVET will offer: vouchers for trainings of a value of € 200 for two students from the winning school in the category "Solving a problem in school or community".
Flammorum, a video animation company, will offer: paid internships for a high school student from the winning team in the category of creating the video of professions.
FLOSSK will offer: training for one student from each of the winning schools in the categories "Creating a device for measuring the noise level" and "Creating a smart plant cultivation farm". The training will be Prototype Development in IoT.
