Innovation Fellows in Training (I-FiT)
International Dash Series 2022
Iowa State University would like to invite you and your school to join us for Innovation Fellows In Training: International Dash Series 2022
The International Dash Series includes a variety of workshops for students to innovate alongside Iowa State faculty and students, and participate in Iowa State’s Innovation Fellows in Training Program.
As participants, students receive an innovation certificate and t-shirt.
Past Events
Start Something
It’s all in the pitch
Event date: July 25 (7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m. CST)
Project due: August 3
Awards Ceremony: August 12 (7:00 a.m. CST)
Who can participate: Senior or rising senior international high school students (anticipated university start date of 2023) with an interest in business.
Size of teams: 3–5 students
How to register: High school counselors, administrators, teachers, or EducationUSA Advisors may register their school or center to participate in the upcoming challenge.
Registration deadline: July 17
There are no registration/participation fees charged to students or schools.
Are you the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates? Future innovators, inventors, and entrepreneurs invited to a workshop on how to create and pitch a business concept. Choose something ordinary, extraordinary, or wildly impossible—it’s all in the pitch!
Participants will compete for a chance to win prizes.
The School of the Future
Designers of the future, start here!
Location: Seoul, South Korea
WeWork Samseong Station II
10F, 518, Teheran-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06180
Workshop Day 1: October 8 (9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.)
Workshop Day 2: October 9 (9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.)
Who can participate? Students in their last two years of high school (juniors and seniors) with an interest in design
Registration: Only 70 spots available. Extended deadline to register is October 7, 2022.
Imagining and designing futures can be one of the most important skills in 2022. This innovation workshop will invite everyone to think about the future of their education, the future of our buildings, the future of our cities, the future of our world, your own future from NOW ON.
This two-day creative workshop is set up to explore what you think, imagine and want to make happen in your next school journey. We will explore creativity tools from design and put innovation mindset and making skills to practice. We will rethink problems and create new solutions together, so we invite everyone to join in and share their best school experiences and craziest ideas for our future.
Attendance both days is required.
The School of the Future
Designers of the future, start here!
Location: Tivoli Mofarrej – Sao Paulo Hotel
Alameda Santos, 1437 – Cerqueira César
01419-001, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Workshop Day 1: October 22 (9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.)
Workshop Day 2: October 23 (9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.)
Who can participate? Students in their last year of high school with an interest in design
Registration: Only 75 spots available.
Imagining and designing futures can be one of the most important skills in 2022. This innovation workshop will invite everyone to think about the future of their education, the future of our buildings, the future of our cities, the future of our world, your own future from NOW ON.
This two-day creative workshop is set up to explore what you think, imagine and want to make happen in your next school journey. We will explore creativity tools from design and put innovation mindset and making skills to practice. We will rethink problems and create new solutions together, so we invite everyone to join in and share their best school experiences and craziest ideas for our future.
Attendance both days is required.
Tiny World – Big Problems
Fighting diseases, securing food production, and protecting our planet.
Location: Ho Chi Minh City
Rex Hotel Saigon
141 Nguyen Hue Blvd.
Ho Chi Minh City 700000
Workshop Day 1: October 29 (9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.)
Workshop Day 2: October 30 (9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.)
Who can participate? Students in their last year of high school with interest in biology, genetics, agriculture, biotechnology, medicine, health, neuroscience, bioengineering, sustainability, and other areas of the life sciences.
Registration: Only 75 spots available.
Thinking about biology helps us understand the living world, and so much of the world operates without our awareness, in places and spaces we don’t easily see, feel, or think about. But what happens in these tiny worlds when things go wrong – this can dramatically affect our health and the entire planet? From diseases in humans to feeding the world—learn about how these problems often start and end within the inner workings of cells. For example, interdisciplinary research merging stem cell biology and bioengineering will be useful for developing tissue repair strategies, fighting aging, and cancers. Also, studying plants at the tiny molecular and cellular levels can shed important light on how plants grow and respond to environmental stresses such as extreme temperatures and drought, which can help food security and environmental sustainability in the era of climate change.
This two-day innovation workshop is designed to get you thinking about biology and how processes at the microscopic level of cells and molecules can provide insight into the inner workings of animal and plant cells that may ultimately help improve the quality of life and our planet. We will think about problems affecting us and our world and try to create innovative new solutions together. We invite everyone to join in and share their ideas and experiences as we innovate for our future.
Attendance on both days is required