YOUTH DESIGN
CHALLENGE
MEDIA KIT

We created this Media Kit to make it easy for you to share information about the Biomimicry Institute’s Youth Design Challenge. You’ll find everything you need to promote the program and this year’s winning designs to your network, friends, and family.

About the YDC

The Biomimicry Institute’s Youth Design Challenge (YDC) is a free, hands-on, project-based learning experience that provides classroom and informal educators with a new framework to introduce biomimicry and an interdisciplinary approach to science and environmental literacy. Working in teams with an adult coach, students explore the wonders of the natural world and apply what they learn to create innovations that support a healthier planet. In doing so, they find a sense of agency and hope.

Through this curriculum and challenge, educators are able to introduce engineering design strategy, to integrate relevant purposeful STEM experiences, and to provide engaging instruction aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

About the Winners

This year’s challenge saw remarkable participation from across the world, with submissions from 11 countries diving into the biomimicry process under the guidance of dedicated educators and mentors. From tackling issue ranging from flooding to droughts, and microplastics to algal blooms, the YDC winners have offered unique, nature-inspired ideas to solve local design challenges.

Click here for detailed information on each team.

For winners’ galleries from this year and previous years, click here.

Find Us on Social

Use the images and pre-written blurbs below to post to your social networks on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Feel free to edit and include your personal connection to the Youth Design Challenge, youth education, or the Biomimicry Institute in general. Simply copy + paste the content, and right-click and save the graphics!

Check out the incredible nature-inspired work of these students! Biomimicry curriculum + the Youth Design Challenge = big wins for the planet!

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@biomimicryinstitute

#biomimicry #youthdesignchallenge #asknature #natureinspired #biomimicryeducation #biomimicrycurriculum

The future is nature-inspired! These winning student submissions from the Biomimicry Institute’s Youth Design Challenge show what’s possible when we bring nature’s wisdom into the classroom.

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#biomimicry #youthdesignchallenge #asknature #natureinspired #biomimicryeducation #biomimicrycurriculum

Witness the awe-inspiring fusion of innovation and nature! Here are the winning entries for the Biomimicry Institute’s Youth Design Challenge. Which is your favorite?

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#biomimicry #youthdesignchallenge #asknature #natureinspired #biomimicryeducation #biomimicrycurriculum

Email Templates

Use the pre-written email below to send to your colleagues, friends, and anyone who would enjoy seeing the incredible nature-inspired innovations that these students have created. Feel free to add a message on your relationship to the Youth Design Challenge, or perspective on the opportunity for a personal touch.

Dear ____________,

I hope you’re doing well. I’m writing to share the incredible work of students who participated in the Biomimicry Institute’s Youth Design Challenge. Not only did they learn from nature’s strategies, processes, and designs, they put that knowledge to use in designing their own nature-inspired solution to a critical environmental or social issue. They are truly inspiring. 

If you aren’t aware of the program, The Biomimicry Institute’s Youth Design Challenge (YDC) is a free, hands-on, project-based learning experience that provides classroom and informal educators with a new framework to introduce biomimicry and an interdisciplinary approach to science and environmental literacy. Working in teams with an adult coach, middle- and high school student participants explore the wonders of the natural world and apply what they learn to create innovations that support a healthier planet. In doing so, they find a sense of agency and hope. 

An emergent theme this year was water: most of the winning teams were concerned about sustainability issues related to water, including access to clean water, microplastics in the ocean, sea level rise, algal blooms, flooding, and droughts. 

You can learn more about the winners and watch their submission videos here. 

I thought you’d enjoy seeing the promise in their nature-inspired approach to problem solving! 

If you have any questions, you can contact Rubin, the Biomimicry Institute’s Director of Youth Education @rubin.rubin@biomimicry.org.