This is a virtual space of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow, Samsung’s Global Corporate Citizenship Program for Latin America, which aims to support teachers in conducting projects focused on solving social problems through the STEM approach. By offering a variety of content and promoting knowledge sharing, the platform seeks to become an educational ecosystem to strengthen the experience in schools in the region, especially among teachers with the program, and whose invitation to share experiences is open to all interested parties around the world.
Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is Samsung’s Global Corporate Citizenship program, which, through educational actions for the next generations, aims to empower students to develop their potential, leading to positive changes in society.
Created in 2010 in the United States, the program is currently present in 33 countries, and has benefited more than 2 million students and teachers. In Latin America, Solve for Tomorrow has been present since 2014 and has already benefited more than 312,000 students and teachers from public schools in 20 countries who have developed and presented 30,000 projects.
The Solve for Tomorrow program is based on a contest that encourages high school students from public schools to develop original and innovative projects applying the STEM approach. Accompanied by a mentoring teacher, students are encouraged to find creative solutions to local challenges, improving soft skills such as critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration. Throughout the stages of the program, the groups receive support from local mentors and different training resources to qualify their proposals.
Each Samsung subsidiary (the office that represents the company in a country or region) organizes the program in a way that best suits the reality of its country or region of representation. The organization and implementation of the program may vary in scale, with in some cases being implemented in a single country and others in a set of countries:
There are many ways to build an innovative project to respond to local challenges. Solve for Tomorrow organizes a suggested journey to be followed by students, based on Design Thinking and Project Based Learning.
As a general rule, the project should be built by a team of 2 to 5 students and a mentoring teacher. To support gender inclusion and parity in the sciences, the group is encouraged to have at least one female student.
In general, the main stages are registration and pre-selection, semi-final, and final. These steps may vary according to the dynamics in each country and/or region of program implementation. When advancing in the stages, the teams receive training and mentoring aimed at improving the project presented and can receive awards offered by Samsung.
Please read the regulation carefully to know the specific rules and steps for your country or region.
Specific criteria may vary by country. In general, the evaluation criteria are based on the levels of problem-solving emphasized by the program (reframing, ideating and realizing), focusing on analyzing the alignment of the proposal with the STEM approach, in addition to the nature of scientific thinking, relevance, creativity and innovative potential of the solution developed and skills mobilized by the group in the development of the project.
Read the regulation carefully to know the rules and criteria for evaluating the program in your country or region.