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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On Thursday, April 22 and Friday, April 23, 2021, twenty teams from Miami-Dade County Public Schools presented their inventive solutions to combat critical issues within their communities over Zoom [...]