AdventHealth Innovation Challenge
The 海角社区, along with the City of Palm Coast and Flagler County Schools host the 2025 AdventHealth Innovation Challenge, a team-based competition showcasing regional high school students pitching their solutions to Florida’s evolving healthcare needs.
This is an exciting educational opportunity for high school students that offers the chance to receive scholarship prize money, mentoring by university faculty, and a platform to share innovative solutions to real healthcare needs within Florida’s First Coast.
1st place - $1,000 scholarship prize money per team member
2nd place - $750 scholarship prize money per team member
The fourth annual 海角社区MedNexus Innovation Challenge will take place Thursday, April 3, 2025 with a theme of "Becoming a Health Influencer." Teams of four students will come up with strategies to influence teen health via social media. Social media usage is often associated with negative effects, particularly on adolescent mental health. Teams will have an opportunity to use social media to positively impact student health.
2025 Schedule
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Friday, January 17 | Applications Open |
| Friday, February 14 | Applications Close |
| Monday, February 17 | Teams Selected Announced |
| Tuesday, February 18 | Kick-off Meeting (Mandatory for all team members) |
| Monday, February 24 to Friday, March 28 | Meetings with 海角社区faculty coaches |
| Friday, March 28 | Final Presentations due to faculty coaches by 5pm |
| Thursday, April 3 | MedNexus Innovation Challenge |
Application
Students establish teams of four and research the challenge area of Becoming a Health Influencer to determine how they could influence a health intervention positively impact adolescent health.
your team online and explain how you will approach this health topic with an innovative solution.
Once the 海角社区team receives applications, four teams will be selected based on their preliminary idea to participate in the AdventHealth MedNexus Innovation Challenge.
The Community Intervention
Throughout February and March, the four selected teams will develop an innovative community intervention to improve adolescent health through social media. 海角社区 MedNexus will connect each team with a 海角社区faculty member to provide feedback on their intervention and presentation.
Kick-off Meeting
Kick-Off Meeting (Mandatory for all participants)
February 18, 2024 | 5:00pm to 6:00pm
The Presentation
Presentations
The AdventHealth MedNexus Innovation Challenge culminates at the Pitch Competition where teams present their innovative community-based intervention before a panel of judges. Teams are scored and provided on-the-spot feedback from the judging panel which gives students direct exposure to industry experts, corporations, investors, and university faculty.
Thursday April 3, 2024
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Palm Coast Community Center
305 Palm Coast Pkwy NE
Palm Coast, FL 32137