Arizona Social Impact Business Challenge Closing Ceremony
Join us on July 24
The Closing Ceremony is also open to all family, friends, mentors, judges, media, and the general community.
It all comes down to this final event where the winning teams will present their company or nonprofit plans, receive their awards and prizes, and celebrate by listening to our Keynote Speaker, MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer.
The Arizona Social Impact Business Challenge believes that rather than just providing students with resources to read like many business plan competitions, having successful mentors, workshop hosts, and role models teaching the kids enables them a chance to really connect and relate to the information in a more tangible, real world, and exciting way.
Our goal is to give these budding social impact entrepreneurs opportunities that they simply don’t get in school or other programs; having these incredible speakers, mentors, and workshop hosts share their knowledge, advice, and experiences will be invaluable to them.
Invite your family, friends and join us in encouraging and celebrating our future generation of social impact entrepreneurs!
It all comes down to this final event where the winning teams will present their company or nonprofit plans, receive their awards and prizes, and celebrate by listening to our Keynote Speaker, MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer.
The Arizona Social Impact Business Challenge believes that rather than just providing students with resources to read like many business plan competitions, having successful mentors, workshop hosts, and role models teaching the kids enables them a chance to really connect and relate to the information in a more tangible, real world, and exciting way.
Our goal is to give these budding social impact entrepreneurs opportunities that they simply don’t get in school or other programs; having these incredible speakers, mentors, and workshop hosts share their knowledge, advice, and experiences will be invaluable to them.
Invite your family, friends and join us in encouraging and celebrating our future generation of social impact entrepreneurs!
Speakers
The Arizona Social Impact Business Challenge would like to thank everyone for their support in creating a unique program with incredible opportunities and experiences for our youth.
This program was founded on the idea that culture is defined by what you celebrate—we want our youth to see people celebrating social impact innovators and entrepreneurs, so we have made our Opening and Closing Ceremonies open to the public to raise awareness and encourage social impact innovation and entrepreneurism.
We are proud of the accomplishments of these young social impact entrepreneurs, and are honored to have MIT Professor Robert Langer speak at the Closing Ceremony of this inaugural event. Help us celebrate the contributions he has made to this world, and the contributions that these young students will make to the world in the future with the skills, values, and knowledge they acquire here.
This program was founded on the idea that culture is defined by what you celebrate—we want our youth to see people celebrating social impact innovators and entrepreneurs, so we have made our Opening and Closing Ceremonies open to the public to raise awareness and encourage social impact innovation and entrepreneurism.
We are proud of the accomplishments of these young social impact entrepreneurs, and are honored to have MIT Professor Robert Langer speak at the Closing Ceremony of this inaugural event. Help us celebrate the contributions he has made to this world, and the contributions that these young students will make to the world in the future with the skills, values, and knowledge they acquire here.
MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer
Not many people in the world can lay claim to having helped, by some estimates, over 2 billion people. Professor Langer is perhaps the foremost Social Impact Entrepreneur of our generation. Having been dubbed the “Edison of Medicine” by Harvard Business Review, Professor Langer has accomplished so very much to benefit the world in his career:
- 40+ companies founded from his lab with a market value of 23B++, including Moderna Inc., first to clinical trials with a vaccine for COVID
- He is one of twelve Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research laboratory is the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world
- His publications have been cited over 305,000 times, making his one the of 10 most cited individuals in history
- Holds more than 1,360 patents
- Langer is the youngest person in history (at 43) to be elected to all three American science academies: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine
- Langer has received more than 220 major awards.
- One of four living recipients of both the National Medal of Science AND the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for his contributions to medicine
- Has honorary degrees from 34 universities from around the world including, Harvard and Yale