Innovating for the Future: A Workshop for Future Scientists

摘要

A recent activity organized by Tel Aviv University gave a highly esteemed group of high-school students the opportunity to spend a day thinking and innovating for the future. The group, called Scientists and Inventors of the Future, was formed in advance and had been endorsed by the president of Israel. Students were selected based on excellence in their studies and high motivation in general, and were encouraged to take university courses as part of their studies. Under the guidance and hosting of the Noar Shocher Mada (Science Loving Youth) department in Tel Aviv University, we arranged for these students a day of thinking and innovating for the future. Following a keynote lecture about disruptive innovation and the challenges of the present, the students were divided into groups and were tasked with the difficult challenge of proposing and developing ideas that can answer to one of the challenges presented in the lecture.