Impact Farm wins the Hult Prize On-Campus Finals 2022
The Hult Prize On Campus Finals culminated this week on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 with Impact Farm emerging as the best Team.
The Team of Four led by Charles Oyamo,Jecinta Mwangi,Kairũ Karega and Iyvie Mboya, all from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, wowed the panel of judges and emerged this year’s winners and will represent the University at the continental regionals.
The winning team for the On–Campus Program in the University of Nairobi will then proceed to the Regionals in three different cities across the globe, where they will have an opportunity to showcase their innovative ideas, learn from their peers and be inspired by a generation of young people who are committed to changing the world through business.
The very best startups represented at each program will win a spot in the world’s largest Global Accelerator-a six-week cutting edge program at the Hult International Business School in the United Kingdom. The winning teams then proceed to the global finals in the United States where the best startups showcase their innovations to the whole world and the winner walks away with US$ 1,000,000.
The Hult Prize, a Partnership with the United Nations, is the largest global start-up accelerator for social and impact entrepreneurship that taps into the youth’s ideas and solutions to solve the world’s most pressing challenges, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Regional summits, forums, demo-days and pitch programs are organized across the globe in universities and colleges, culminating in an Annual Global Summit and Awards Gala at the United Nations General Assembly Headquarters in New York, United States, including its flagship US$1,000,000 award for social entrepreneurship.
In addition, since its inception, the Hult Prize Program has mobilized over one million students to re-think their future, and empowered them to be the change they want to see in the world. It has grown to become a benchmark for social entrepreneurship and a breed for disruptive innovation on nearly 2,000 college and university campuses across 100 plus countries.
The University of Nairobi has been selected as one of the campuses, where the initial stage: The On–Campus Program will take place. This will enable more students to take part and fast track their ideas, compete, thus leading to more ideas and ultimately more start-ups, each poised for radical impact.
In line with the University of Nairobi Strategic Plan, the institution has placed Innovation, Research and Enterprise of ideas as a key player to achieve the university competitiveness at the Global rankings, the on-campus program is an opportunity for the students both undergraduate and graduate to hone their innovation and creativity skills to address the most pressing challenges of the 21st Century.
Our theme for this year’s On– Campus Program is “Build back better”. It seeks to tap into the creativity of young people, in line with the Hult Prize 2022 Challenge: “Build a business that would employ at least 2,000 people by 2024 while creating a positive impact on the world” #GetTheWorldBackToWork, towards SDG8: Decent Work and Economic Growth.
Previous challenges, since inception in 2010 up to 2020 have been on Education, Clean Water, Energy, Poverty, Global Food Crisis, Healthcare, Early Childhood Education, Doubling Income, Refugee Crisis, Harnessing the Power of Energy and Youth Unemployment, consecutively.
University of Nairobi Hult Prize is premised on thinking big, being bold and working towards solving some of humanities pressing challenges and our objective is to put the University of Nairobi on the global map as the epitome of youth-led and initiated innovations for profit and social entrepreneurship, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, for a better world.
We wish Impact Farm all the best !
