Student Stories from the Global Sustainability Challenge

The Story of Team Royal Spark

We had thought about the power crisis and instead of complaining we chose to be part of the solution.

The Story of Team Kinergica

Our team has long been working on several research and innovation projects when we saw the GSC application. One of us, who is an Aspire Leadership Program Alumnus, told us about this competition. We brainstormed virtually one day and eventually found a problem ultimately peculiar to coastal regions,

The Story of Team Bits N Bytes

Our city is prone to getting affected by storms and floods and we have been in situations where we were stuck in our homes without power for extended periods. One such situation when government had announced holidays for educational institutes after heavy rains was when this project started.

The Story of Team Net.Zero

A late night brainstorm with my team.

The Story of Team AIGineers

It was April 2024. I was scrolling through news about Kenya's devastating floods — 300 people dead, 280,000 displaced, entire communities underwater. But what broke my heart wasn't just the destruction — it was the interviews with survivors.

The Story of Team Redshift

The Story of Team Solar Bank Organisation

The energy scarcity crisis in Nigeria inspired our project. As I type this message, the street across my area have gone days without electric power supply. This shouldn't be so. Households need electric power for ironing, running appliances like refrigerators and even fans or Air conditioners as we

The Story of Team TRITATVA

The spark came from a casual conversation with a friend who pointed out a very ordinary but unresolved problem we all encounter in daily life. At first, it stayed just as an idea. But when we began talking about it as a team, something changed. Each of us started viewing the problem through our own

The Story of Team Ripple Reverie

We both were always empathetic souls. We directly weren't affected by water scarcity but we saw people getting affected by it. So I said let us do something and made the idea.

Powering through the freeze: Peer-to-peer EV charging

A holiday road trip turned into a nightmare when an electric vehicle battery died in the freezing Northeast China winter, resulting in a staggering 8,000 CNY rescue bill. This expensive lesson inspired the Yunhui Super Charger team to develop a system where cars can charge each other. Here is their story.

Turning invasive weeds into fuel for education

When a sudden policy shift made cooking fuel unaffordable for community boarding schools in Indonesia, the team behind BioGangs didn't just see a crisis—they saw a connection. By linking an invasive river weed to the desperate need for energy, they are turning environmental waste into a lifeline for education. Here is their story.

From local plantations to a future global movement

What started as a simple observation at university plantation drives in Karachi has grown into a vision for a global green movement. Meet the team behind Sairaab - a GSC project looking to connect citizens, organizations, and students to make their cities greener, one geotagged tree at a time. Here's their story.