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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

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+400 Points

Winner

$10000

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10 minutes a Day. Earn Points & Skills.

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

BusinessSocial Awareness

Mall are Welcome

Effort: 10 minutesMemorial City Mall in Houston just told anyone under 18 that they cannot come in on weekends without an adult. It is the second Houston mall to do it this spring, and malls in Frisco, Torrance, New Jersey, and Alabama have done the same this year, some of them every day after 5 p.m. The reason is a social media trend called a takeover, where hundreds of teenagers show up at one place at one time, and a few of those gatherings have ended with fights and police. A psychologist at Texas Children's Hospital said that the takeovers are not really about the mall. Teenagers used to have three places in their lives, school, home, and somewhere else, and for a lot of them the somewhere else has turned into a screen. When a hundred kids show up at the mall on a Saturday, he says, that third place is trying to come back, just without anyone in charge of it. The malls have a problem, too. Teenagers are a big share of the people who still show up, and a mall that bans them on the one day they are free is banning the customers it is going to need in ten years. Your Task: Imagine you are the general manager of a mall that just announced a curfew, and the store owners and the teenagers are both angry at you. Before you write a new rule, think about a place that already works. 1. Your Third Space Name the place you actually go when it is not school or home, whether that is a park, a friend's garage, or a food court. Then say the one thing about it that keeps a crowd of teenagers from turning into a problem, whether that is who runs it, how big it is, or what there is to do. (2 to 3 sentences.) 2. The Rule Take the thing that makes your place work and build it into the mall's Saturday rule, so a hundred teenagers can be there without a takeover. It cannot be "bring an adult" or "no teens after 4." Say what a sixteen-year-old is allowed to do, what the mall gets in return, and the exact moment security steps in. (4 to 5 sentences.) 3. The Store Owners They are the ones who asked for the ban. Using your rule, tell them what they would lose if teenagers stopped coming, and what your rule gives them that the ban does not. (2 sentences.) More

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Choose Any Challenge Summer Edition: 2026

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10 weeks ChallengeEarns: +400pts

Problem SolvingCommunicationSocial Awareness

Awarded:
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