Cisco has announced the IoT World Forum Young Women’s Innovation Grand Challenge. The IoT World Forum Young Women’s Innovation Grand Challenge is a global innovation challenge open to young women between the ages of 13-18. The aim of the challenge is to recognize, promote, and reward young innovators as they come up with new uses for Internet of Things technologies.

The Challenge: The goal is to come up with new ideas on how technologies from the Internet of Things can improve education, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, retail, transportation, smart cities or find new solutions that can cut through many industries.

Who: They are  seeking submissions from young women (individuals or teams) in school (age range 13 – 18) that are looking at the problems of today and can propose how they’d solve one problem using Internet of Things technology.Entrants will be judged on originality, creativity, and feasibility of the solution.

Deadline: 19 May, 2015

Note: No Entrants from Spain, South Korea, and Israel can sign up for the Contest until they turn 14. No Entrants from the Netherlands can sign up for the Contest until they turn 16.

If you are eligible and interested, Apply Here