Bett Asia School Challenge

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What is the Bett Asia School Challenge?

An exciting new initiative for 2023, the Bett Asia School Challenge is a Southeast Asia-wide competition for students aged 7-17, created to promote big-thinking and innovative ideas on a large scale, to help provide solutions for schools and education issues using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

To learn more, register interest here. You will be asked to submit the outline of your project ideas by 8 September. If selected for the live final, you will demonstrate your completed solution at Bett Asia on 5 October 2023.

Supported by iTrain Asia, the challenge aims to drive grassroots innovation in schools, and will allow students to showcase their solutions and ideas using four key skills:

✓ Critical Thinking

✓ Collaboration

✓ Creativity

✓ Communication

The challenge will ask students to imagine solutions for today’s problems to help tomorrow’s world across three unique design challenges based on three of the SDGs:

✓ Life below Water (SDG 14) for students aged 6-12

✓ Life on Land (SDG 15) for students aged 13-17

✓ Climate Action (SDG 13) for students aged 13-17

Students will work in teams of a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 5 on their chosen projects at school from mid-July and submit their final project by 8 September.

Finalists will be approached individually so that they can arrange their travel as early as possible.

Finalists will be asked to pitch their projects onstage to a panel of judges in front of all participating schools at the exciting live final at Bett Asia (taking place at the Athenee Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand) on 5 October 2023 in the afternoon.

Winners will receive a coveted Bett Asia School Challenge trophy and exciting prizes!

It is important that the teams are ready to travel to Bangkok. Please note: travel and associated costs are not covered by Bett Asia.

Watch the School Challenge information session

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources

The Challenge

Develop an idea to promote a better use of our oceans, seas, and marine resources.

Age group: 7-12

Sustainably manage forests, combat deforestation, halt and reverse land degredation, halt biodiversity loss.

The Challenge

Develop an idea to promote the conservation of life on land.

Age group: 13-17

Take our urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

The Challenge

Develop an action campaign to educate the public about the importance of climate action

Age group: 13-17

How does it work?

Registered teachers will be invited to attend two online sessions to better understand the challenge, ask questions, and get the right training on how to use a Google platform, which their students can use for the challenge. Here are the next steps:

Before Wednesday 10 July 2023: Register here and create your teams. We recommend 3-5 students per team, but you can have multiple teams in your class.
Wednesday 12 July 2023 (10:00 - 11:00am BST / 16:00 - 17:00 ICT): Registered teachers will attend a one-hour online information session that will provide an overview of the challenge, the platform, and its features.
Tuesday 18 July 2023 (03:00 - 11:00am BST / 09:00 - 17:00 ICT): An online training session with challenge partner iTrain Asia on how to use Google tools to complete the challenge. It is compulsory to attend this session to submit the project and join the challenge. If you want to submit a project but do not have access to the teacher resource page, please contact us here.
August: Work with your students on the outline of their projects
Friday 8 September 2023 (11:00 BST / 18:00 ICT): Submit your team’s project idea. Submit your projects here.
Mid September: Finalists announced!
Thursday 5 October 2023: EXCITING LIVE FINAL. Finalists will be asked to pitch their projects live on the main stage- to a panel of judges, other schools and delegates- at Bett Asia 2023 in Bangkok. The challenge is in-person only. Teams will have to travel to Bangkok at their own expense to present their project.