How to Prepare Your Learning Challenge Application

First, decide what topic or skill you want to explore. Then, decide how you want to answer the four application questions. You can write an essay, send an email, upload a video, provide a digital link, make a powerpoint… or whatever you want. It’s totally up to you! 

The Application Questions Are:

1. What topic or skill are you planning on exploring throughout this Challenge? Why are you passionate about this?
2. How will this learning help you be successful, now or in the future?
3. What are your goals for your Challenge? What do you hope to learn?
4. What do you plan to do in the 10 weeks of your Learning Challenge? What will your first steps be?

*Note that you MUST fill out the entire application in one session. You cannot save and go back in, so prepare your answers ahead of time.

Here Are Some Examples of Strong Applications!

Videos: 

• Cake Business 
• Music Recording
• Photography
• Leadership

Essays:

• Cosplay 
• Engineering

Presentations: 

• Homeless Women & Feminine Hygiene 
• Creative Activism

Typed directly into the online form: 

• Financial Investing
• Skateboarding

Tips and Ideas:

• You don’t have to be a writer! In fact, we love to get video applications!
• We’d love to see your passion, goals, and initiative! Be the most authentic version of who you are.
• You can use videos, pictures, songs, poems, drawings … you decide. It’s ALL up to you!

GripTape Fall 2020 Learning Challenge Guidelines

• You’re completely in charge of deciding what you explore and how you do it.
• Your learning doesn’t depend on school, so you can do the Challenge on your own outside of class.
• You lead your learning, so no more than 1/3 of your time in the Challenge is spent in adult-led experiences like classes, camp, or study abroad programs.
• You have 10 weeks to complete your Challenge. All Summer 2020 learning journeys must be completed by August 9, 2020.
• You are between 15 and 19 years old.
• You live or go to school in the U.S.