Nancy Conrad created the Conrad Foundation in 2008 to energize and engage students in science and technology through unique entrepreneurial opportunities. The organization’s flagship program, the Conrad Challenge, is a global competition challenging students to combine education, innovation and entrepreneurship to create products that address real-world challenges and global sustainability. By enabling young minds to connect education, innovation and entrepreneurship, the Foundation helps provide a bold platform for enriching the innovative workforce of the future.

Ms. Conrad has been a featured speaker at national and international conferences. Her presentations include TED Long Beach, the Legatum Institute at MIT, and, at the invitation of HM King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz, she spoke at the Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She also presented at the Global Diversity Leadership Conference at Harvard University and the National Modeling and Simulation Coalition conference in Washington, DC. As a leader in transformative education, she has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology detailing how the Conrad Foundation exemplifies the use of partnership and mentorship to improve STEM education. She has been named one of the top 100 leaders in STEM Education. Ms. Conrad serves on the Board of Directors of the Presidential Scholars.

 

Nancy Conrad Show Highlights:

• Why Nancy started the Conrad Challenge
• The transformative education approach Nancy uses
• What kind of challenges do students solve in the Conrad challenge?
• “No box” thinking
• Use the word “challenges” instead of  “problems”
• Your expectations matter for your students and staff
• Are we making students prisoners of their own minds?
• Invite your students to the table
• How schools are juice factories

 

Nancy Conrad Resources:

• Apply to the Conrad Challenge

 

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The Conrad Challenge

The Conrad Challenge promotes collaborative, student-centered, real world-relevant learning that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship, unleashing students’ potential to create future-defining solutions and a sustainable society for generations to come.

The Conrad Challenge invites teams of 2-5 students between the ages of 13-18 to innovate new products and services that address global issues in one of six categories:

• Aerospace & Aviation;
• Cyber-Technology & Security;
• Energy & Environment;
• Health & Nutrition;
• Smoke-Free World;
• Transforming Education with Technology.    

The registration process is open from August 24 to October 19, 2018 at www.conradchallenge.org.

 

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