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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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Real-World ProjectsDo short, fun projects from top companies in fields like AI, Business, and Healthcare.

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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!

HealthcareProblem Solving

Patient Patients

Effort: 10 minutesOn a June morning in Union City, Georgia, staff started showing up at 6 a.m. for a building that had never held a patient. Grady Health System was opening a brand-new 24-hour emergency room with 16 beds, a pharmacy, a lab, and a pediatric unit, the first ER in south Fulton County in four years. Until that morning, the nearest one was almost 30 minutes away. If you have never been inside an emergency room, here is how it works. An ER is the part of a hospital that is open all night for anything that cannot wait, from a broken arm to a heart attack. You check in at a desk, a nurse asks a few questions, and then you sit. The order is not first come, first served. The sickest person goes back first, so someone with chest pain who walked in after you will be seen before your sprained ankle, and nobody tells you where you are in line. The average visit in America now takes more than two and a half hours, and one woman on Long Island waited 36 hours in hallway after hallway until she got a bed. A brand-new ER has one thing no old one has. Nobody has sat in its waiting room yet. Your Task: Imagine you are the patient-experience manager for the new ER, and the waiting room is yours to design. Most people who walk in have never been inside one, and they are scared. 1. The Wait Think of a time you waited a long time for something, and it made you anxious or annoyed, when nobody told you what was going on or how much longer it would be. It could be the school office, the DMV, or a bus that never came. Say where you were, how long it took, and what about the waiting got to you. (3 to 4 sentences.) 2. The Flip Take the thing that made your wait so bad and build its opposite into the new ER, for someone who has never been in one and is scared. It cannot be a number on a screen or anything a hospital already does. Give it a name, say what a first-timer notices about it in the first ten minutes, and say whether it costs almost nothing or real money. (4 to 5 sentences.) 3. The Welcome Write what the person at the front desk says to every first-timer in the first twenty seconds, so they understand how the line works and feel like someone is watching out for them. (2 sentences.) Optional: add a drawing of your waiting room if you want to. Please include a link. It is not required, and your writing has to make sense without it. Ready to try to win the big bucks? Try the KnoPro Challenge: Healthcare is Hiring. More

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

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"KnoPro provides students with fun and exciting opportunities to creatively tap into their thoughts and get rewarded for their ideas. It is an engaging site that keeps students coming back for more!"

Maira Jamil

Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology

“I was really impressed with the creativity... they made me feel good as a teacher. Experiences like these are what make teaching so rewarding.”

Mark Godinez

South Dade Senior High

“The KnoPro project was relevant to them because it made them think about how they could apply technology in their future careers."

Guilia Matarasso

Monarch High School

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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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