🚀 Challenge Overview

Welcome to the Emergent Disrupt Challenge – a 2-hour, rapid-fire innovation sprint where you'll create a brand-new product idea from scratch! This isn't about polished code; it's about demonstrating how AI tools make it radically easier to turn ideas into action.

Date: April 19, 2025

Time: 1:40 PM - 4:00 PM

Location: Starting at MacMillan Hall, then various campus locations with workshops in the Nelson Center

Prize Pool: $10,000 in prizes!

⏱️ Challenge Format

• Timeline
  • 1:15 - 1:25 PM: Kickoff with Matt Fisher at MacMillan Hall
  • 1:25 - 4:00 PM: Build your solution
  • 4:00 PM: Submissions due
  • 4:50 - 5:20 PM: Winners ($$$) announced at MacMillan Hall Auditorium
• Tracks
  • Choose one track to focus your solution:
• E-Commerce
• Education
• Team Formation
  • Teams of 2-4 people, technical and nontechnical backgrounds welcome.
  • 1 person on each team must be a Brown student.
  • Options:
    • Come with a pre-formed team
    • Form a team at the conference
    • Get matched by our team
  • SIGN UP WITH YOUR TEAM HERE

🎯 Your Mission

• Over the course of the challenge, your team will:
  • Identify a real, unmet need in your selected track
  • Ideate and refine an AI-powered solution
  • Use no-code/low-code tools to build a prototype or MVP
  • Develop a product vision, business model, or go-to-market plan
  • Record a 2-minute video pitch to showcase your work
• Reminder: All work must start on the day of the challenge. No pre-built projects allowed.

📋 Submission Requirements (Due by 4:00 PM)

• See Submission Checklist at bottom of this document

🏆 Judging Criteria

Your submission will be evaluated based on the following rubric (Total Score: ___ / 50):