{"id":9963,"date":"2016-01-08T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T23:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=9963"},"modified":"2016-02-01T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:18:20","slug":"solve-it-ufvs-community-innovation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2016\/01\/08\/solve-it-ufvs-community-innovation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Solve It! &#8212; UFV&#8217;s Community Innovation Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solve It! is an applied research contest focused on giving UFV students and recent grads tangible experience as they solve small, but real-life, sustainability and climate-related challenges that exist in the Fraser Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Join an interdisciplinary team in a unique contest that aims to further innovation and sustainable community development in the Fraser Valley. The challenge runs all semester. Sign up in a team of three or individually, and work to solve a problem posed by a local business or organization.<\/p>\n<p>Getting involved in Solve It! not only puts you in the running for awesome prizes, but you also have the opportunity to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get unique perspectives on real-word problems<\/li>\n<li>Partner up with students, recent alumni, municipalities, and non-profits in the region to help solve real-world sustainability and climate challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Put your skills to the test<\/li>\n<li>Gain valuable work experience<\/li>\n<li>Network with our business partners<\/li>\n<li>Get Co-Curricular credit (students)<\/li>\n<li>Mentor current students (alumni)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With prizes and experience on the line, sign up today!<\/p>\n<p>To sign up or for more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.ufv.ca\/solveit\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/alumni.ufv.ca\/solveit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Alyssa Bougie at <a href=\"mailto:solveit@ufv.ca\">solveit@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #fff;\">02\/05\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solve It! is an applied research contest focused on giving UFV students and recent grads tangible experience as they solve small, but real-life, sustainability and climate-related challenges that exist in the Fraser Valley. Join an interdisciplinary team in a unique contest that aims to further innovation and sustainable community development in the Fraser Valley. The &#8230; <a title=\"Solve It! &#8212; UFV&#8217;s Community Innovation Challenge\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2016\/01\/08\/solve-it-ufvs-community-innovation-challenge\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myufv","category-calendar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}