Public Policy Challenge
"Think "Shark Tank" for public policy: extraordinary ideas for solving contemporary challenges presented to a panel made up of experienced public officials and other experts by top students from highly rated public-administration schools. That would be a pretty apt description of the National Public Policy Challenge, an annual invitational event hosted by the Fels Institute of Public Policy of...
By Alexandra Meis, MPA Candidate '13
Kinvolved’s Progress: April 2012 - March 2013
It is hard to believe that an entire year has passed since our team from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service presented at the Inaugural National Invitational Fels Public Policy Challenge in April 2012. Time really does fly when you are busy studying for your Masters in Public...
Read about the 2013 Public Policy Challenge Finalists in our Meet the Teams series. Watch the teams compete in the Finals on February 24th at 1pm at the Wharton School at 38th and Walnut. RSVP HERE for the Finals. Meet Faith in Farmers Winter Initiative...
The Idea
The Faith in Farmers Initiative is a bid to improve access to nutritional foods in poorer neighborhoods in...
By Kelliston McDowell, MPA '14
Now a yearly event, the Penn Fels Institute of Government’s second annual National Invitational Public Policy Challenge had it all. There was the impressive venue at the National Constitution Center, an esteemed panel of judges, and thought-provoking policy proposals - plus about twice the number of teams than that of the inaugural challenge.
“This was basically a...
By Peter Barna, Penn '15
In 2008, Google ran an experimental competition called “Project 10 to the 100” asking two simple, but ideal-encompassing questions: “What would help? And help the most?” With such a broad goal, this competition, called a social innovation competition, garnered over 150,000 diverse responses ranging from new methods of educational development to improved modes of public...
By Kelliston McDowell, MPA '14
It was a moment symbolic not only of the Penn Public Policy Challenge Finals, but also of its eventual winner, re:Mind.
During the judges' question-and-answer portion of the team's presentation, Pennsylvania State Representative Dwight Evans posited, “Why hasn't this been implemented yet?"
It was not the first time Evans posed the question during the finals. Nor was...
Read about the 2013 Public Policy Challenge Finalists in our Meet the Team series. Watch the teams compete in the Finals on February 24th at 1pm at the Wharton School at 38th and Walnut. RSVP HERE for the Finals. Meet re:Mind...
The Idea
Forgetting is the #1 reason why patients miss their initial appointment. Though this may seem like a minor problem, the impact of a missed...
The Daily Pennsylvanian covered this year’s Public Policy Challenge Finalists – read DP writer Sarah Emmerich’s story here.
And read about the teams’ public policy ideas in their own words in our “Meet the Teams” series: Faith in Farmers, FitPhilly, Penn PUPIL, re:Mind, and Smart Justice.
RSVP NOW to attend the Penn Finals on Sunday, February 24th, 1 – 5pm, at The Wharton School, Huntsman Hall...
Read about the 2013 Public Policy Challenge Finalists in our Meet the Teams series. Watch the teams compete in the Finals on February 24th at 1pm at the Wharton School at 38th and Walnut. RSVP HERE for the Finals. Meet Penn PUPIL...
The Idea
The Public Policy Challenge is an interdisciplinary competition in which undergraduate and graduate policy-minded students work together in small...
Read about the 2013 Public Policy Challenge Finalists in our Meet the Team series. Watch the teams compete in the Finals on February 24th at 1pm at the Wharton School at 38th and Walnut. RSVP HERE to attend the Finals. Meet Smart Justice...
The Idea
In recent years, prison overcrowding has placed a heavy strain on parole and probation departments nationwide, yet funding and...
