From Vision to Action: The Journey of Aspen Challenge 2025
In the early months of 2025, a spark ignited in two cities—San Diego and Boston—as students stepped into a space rarely offered to them: one where their voices could [...]
Youth-Led Teams in Boston and San Diego Take the Aspen Challenge
Aspen Challenge welcomes youth voice into the conversation around critical community issues and invites young people to take a seat at the table as active change-makers. From historic Boston [...]
Alumni Spotlight: How Aspen Challenge Helped Student Annyah Cush Find Her Purpose
“I told them to use their hearts and minds instead of going into the challenge trying to win. Once it’s something that you are actually interested in, and you’re [...]
Experiencing the Magic of Aspen: A Journey with the Aspen Challenge Winners
The Aspen Ideas Festival, a vibrant gathering of thinkers and doers from around the globe, offers a unique platform for discussions on some of today’s most pressing issues. This [...]
Positive, Youth-Led Change in Brooklyn and San Diego
Coast to coast – from Brooklyn to San Diego – young people are hard at work developing their teams’ responses and creating innovative Solutions following the recent Aspen Challenge: [...]
Love, Interruption, Opportunity: The Heart of the Aspen Challenge Is Transformation Through Youth Empowerment
Marcus L. Strother, President and CEO of MENTOR California, issued a challenge at Aspen Challenge: San Diego 2024 urging students to find solutions to chronic absenteeism. Read his take [...]
Sitting Down with Our Newest City Partner, San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD)
The Aspen Challenge is thrilled to welcome San Diego as our newest partner city for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. Known as a leader in sustainability and progress, San [...]
Aspen Challenge 2023: Celebrating Student-Led Solutions in New Orleans and Brooklyn Ahead of the Aspen Ideas Festival
The Aspen Challenge recently concluded Solution Showcases in New Orleans and Brooklyn following eight weeks of critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving initiated at the Challenge Forums in each city [...]
Celebrating 10 Years of Aspen Challenge
Dear Aspen Challenge Supporter, Engage. Inspire. Lead. This is our motto. As we celebrate a significant milestone, heading into what will be our 10th “season," I can’t wait to [...]
A Dynamic Aspen Challenge Duo
During the Aspen Challenge: Miami 2022 Coach Orientation, we learned that one of our coaching pairs has a unique history: one of the coaches was the other’s high school [...]
