In celebration of World Engineering Day, HIT Industrial and Manufacturing Department presents:

The Big Ideas Competition

What we are looking for:
In line with the 2022 WED theme “ Building Back Wiser – Engineering the Future” we invite students with big ideas to come up with an interdisciplinary project proposal that seeks to fulfil a minimum of 2 of the SDGs for the UN vision 2030.

Deliverables:

Concept note in PDF format clearly highlighting the background, the idea and proposed execution. Be sure to exhibit the impact on SDGs and the interdisciplinary nature of the project idea.
Idea poster or infograph that can aid in explaining your idea further
All other supporting documents can be submitted as well in a compressed archive (.ZIP, .RAR, .7ZIP) Submissions are to be sent to mchikuruwo@hit.ac.zw Cc: tmabhena@hit.ac.zw and rmahoso@hit.ac.zw

Deadline:

Deliverables are to be submitted by 0800hrs on Thursday 3 March 2022. No late entries will be accepted. Top 4 teams will present their Big Ideas as finalists on Friday 4 March 2022 at the WED commemorations for selection of the overall winner

Eligibility:

Competition is open to registered students of the Harare Institute of Technology.

Competition may be attempted by a single person or as a team of no more than five members

All streams are welcome to participate

Prize:

TTLCC mentorship and incubation of the winning idea

For any further enquiries contact: tmabhena@hit.ac.zw