2015 Partner City

Washington, DC

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Washington, DC 2016

I challenge you to use art to preserve the cultural identities of your community and to collaborate with another community to celebrate your differences and similarities.

Charles “Lil Buck” Riley & Damian Woetzel

By focusing on the appetites of your generation, I challenge you to come up with an irresistible food concept that features all natural fruits, vegetables, and sustainable meats and fish.

José Andrés

I challenge you to create and test a business idea that will help address a problem of poverty within your community.

Jo-Ann Tan

I challenge you, the students of Washington DC, to leverage technology and design a platform to engage with youth from around the world. This platform should be scalable and convince high school students, and society at large, that engaging with people from different cultures should be the norm.

Chris Plutte

By bringing together unlikely allies, I challenge you to unleash peace to counter the culture of violence present in your community

Eric Dawson

Partner

Ensure that every school guarantees students reach their full potential through rigorous and joyful learning experiences provided in a nurturing environment.

Participating Schools

Anacostia High School
Benjamin Banneker High School
Calvin Coolidge High School
Capital City Public Charter School
César Chávez Public Charter School for Public Policy
Columbia Heights Education Campus
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
E.L. Haynes Public Charter School
Eastern High School
Frank W. Ballou High School

H.D. Woodson High School
McKinley Technology High School
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
Phelps Architecture, Construction, and Engineering High School
The SEED School of Washington, DC
Thurgood Marshall Academy
Washington Latin Public Charter School
Washington Metropolitan High School
Woodrow Wilson High School

Washington, DC 2015 Speakers

Washington, DC 2015 Judges