Innovation grants for studentsWorkshop 02Future
Sandbox02
Build ideas from scratch.
Test. Fail. Iterate.
Creative workshops where RTU students learn innovation methods, develop ideas and build prototypes.
- Workshop 01 Done
Won by Blind AI
See the results
- Workshop 02You are here
New round. New teams. New ideas.
- Final event
€3000 for the best project
Use these during Workshop 02
A playground for ambitious ideas.
Future Sandbox is a programme for developing innovative thinking, run as regular, independent creative workshops. Participants identify problems and construct ideas using creative thinking and future thinking methods.
The workshops are brainstorming parties. You are trained in idea generation in practice, and at the end you present what you made - showing you can reach a conceptual solution in a short time.
From spark to prototype
Stop 02
Join a workshop
A brainstorming party. Come to one, or come to all of them.
Stop 03
Generate ideas
Creative and future thinking methods, aimed at a real problem.
Open the generatorStop 04
Present a concept
Show what you reached by the end of the session.
You bring the idea.
We help you build it.
Creative thinking training
Methods for generating and developing ideas, taught and practised in the session.
Future thinking methods
Ways of reading where things are going, so your idea is aimed somewhere real.
Prototype materials
A shared supply for simple alpha prototypes, granted as you need it.
3D printing support
Access and help, so a part you need is a part you can have.
Programme guidance
Someone to ask, from the first workshop to the final event.
Where the finished things go.
You built it - now put it on the record. What it is, how you got there, photos of the thing on the table, and a link if it lives on a screen.
It goes straight onto the wall with everyone else’s. That wall is what the jury reads, and what you browse when you are stuck on the bit someone else already solved.
Submit your prototypeStuck? We will write you three.
Tell it what you study and what you care about, and it writes three prototypes for your brief on the spot - each one small enough to finish, and aimed at a real annoyance you will recognise the moment you hear it.
Nobody else in the room gets the same three. Talk any of them through, or rethink one on its own.
Generate my ideasThe room decides half of it.
For a fair result we want your opinion on who should go to the finals - not only the jury’s. So the two count equally: your vote is half the decision.
Every team gets one vote, and you cannot vote for your own team. Read what everyone entered, agree as a team, then pick the one you would most want to exist.
Go to the voting page50%
Student
vote
50%
Jury
vote
One vote per team.
€3000
Cash prize for the best project
Awarded at the final event, for continuing to develop the winning idea. Projects are judged on three things:
- Innovativeness
- Added value
- Prototype maturity
Who can join?
- Any RTU student, with prior registration.
- Individually or in a team - both are welcome.
- Attend as many workshops as you like. None are mandatory.
- Come to at least one, and you may present an idea at the final event.
Your next big idea starts here.
Register for Workshop 02Questions, or want to apply to the programme?
Gavriils Kņiga gavriils.kniga@rtu.lv