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KnoPro is 100% free and gives high school students meaningful work-based learning experiences they can highlight on resumes and college applications. Sponsored by top companies, each challenge helps students build in-demand skills, confidence, and opportunities to win large cash prizes.

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More than $300,000 awarded to students and schools

KnoPro celebrates student creativity and problem-solving by awarding cash prizes to students and schools for outstanding industry project submissions. These rewards recognize hard work, innovation, and skill development—helping students gain confidence and real-world experience for resumes and college applications.

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Looking for real-world experiences to make your college application and resume stand out? Challenges are competitions you can do on a team or solo—in school or out!—where big money's on the line just by helping solve a pressing industry or community problem with your real-life knohow.

Aerospace Engineering: Next-Gen Flight

How will we fly in 2050? Get ready for take-off into the exciting world of fu... More

Earns

+400 Points

Winner

$10000

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Daily Skillbuilders

10 minutes a Day. Earn Points & Skills.

Level-up your skills and career knowledge by creating TikTok videos, persuasive emails and more!

TechnologyProblem Solving

Hum Sweet Hum

Effort: 10 minutesGregory Pirio lives in a Northern Virginia neighborhood where you can hear a building that never turns off. It is a data center, and the machinery that keeps it from overheating runs every hour of every day, all year long. Neighbors say the high-pitched hum carries onto their decks and into their back yards, and one of them called it a disaster to put something like that near houses. A data center is a warehouse packed with computers, and it is where the things you do online actually happen. If you asked an AI for help with homework this week, or watched anything at all on your phone, part of what you did ran through a building somebody else can hear all night. Northern Virginia alone has close to three hundred of them, and the newest ones need far more power and cooling than the older ones did, which means more fans, more generators, and more noise. Nobody has written a national rulebook for how loud one of these is allowed to be, so towns are deciding one at a time. During 2026, residents in Wisconsin, Michigan, and New Jersey gave up waiting and sued. Your Task: Write the rules nobody has written yet. 1. The Where Rule Write the rule for where a new data center is allowed to be built. People have suggested next to highways, out in farmland, or deep underground. Then give one good thing and one bad thing about the place you picked. (Your rule, plus one pro and one con.) 2. The Already There Rule Hundreds of these are already sitting near neighborhoods and they are not moving. Write the rule those ones have to follow, whether that is a wall, a noise limit, quiet hours, or something else entirely. (1 to 2 sentences.) More

Earns:
10 pointsAwarded:
(1) $100 e-gift card

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Finance

Jessica X. & Jennifer X.

Real Estate, Real Impact: Build a REIT that Builds the Future

Real estate isn’t just about buying property; it’s about building the future. From affordabl...Learn more

4 weeks ChallengeEarns: +400pts

Problem SolvingCommunicationSocial Awareness

Awarded:
$5000

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