{"id":3063,"date":"2017-01-11T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2017-01-11T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:53:51","slug":"worlds-challenge-challenge-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-3063","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Challenge Challenge Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">In March 2017, UBC\u2019s Global Lounge will host the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/students.ubc.ca\/about-student-services\/simon-k-y-lee-global-lounge-resource-centre\/worlds-challenge-challenge-2017\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">World\u2019s Challenge Challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"> for the first time on the Vancouver Campus. This competition invites teams of three students to come up with a unique solution to a global problem. All current undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to enter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Members of the winning team will each receive $2,500 and get to travel to Western University in London, Ontario to compete in the first <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldschallengechallenge.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;\">International World\u2019s Challenge Challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The deadline for students to enter the competition is February 13, 2017. Full contest rules can be found at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.students.ubc.ca\/challenge\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;\">www.students.ubc.ca\/challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">Gabrielle\u00a0Menard<\/span><\/b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0MFRE<br \/>\nAcademic Coordinator,\u00a0Graduating Projects Manager<br \/>\nLand and Food Systems\u00a0|\u00a0Master of Food and Resource Economics<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus<br \/>\n348A-2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver British Columbia\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada<br \/>\nCell 604 764 0305<br \/>\n<\/span><a><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">gabrielle.menard@ubc.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/\"><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2017, UBC\u2019s Global Lounge will host the World\u2019s Challenge Challenge for the first time on the Vancouver Campus. This competition invites teams of three students to come up with a unique solution to a global problem. All current undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to enter. Members of the winning team will each&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}