Pioneer Prize for BHP

12/12/2022

The countdown for applying to the Pioneer Prize is on!
Teens from the Deer Isle and Blue Hill Peninsula have the chance to bring incredible ideas to life using creative thinking and digital tech. (With some help and guidance from terrific tech-savvy mentors.) Previous winners created VR experiences, collaborative problem-solving apps, game and website design, and AI navigation. The sky’s the limit when it comes to what’s possible. Just make sure to register ASAP to participate.
Did we mention competitors have the chance to win big?
🥇$3,000.00
🥈$1,500.00
🥉$500.00
Participation is completely free, and no prior experience is necessary –just a big imagination and bigger ideas.
Click the link in bio to register now!

03/20/2022

We’re so excited to see students preparing their submissions for this year’s competition — learning along the way from each other, from their mentors and from the FabLab instructors in the after-school digital workshops. Keep up the great work, everyone!! 👏👏 🔜 🗣 🥇🥈🥉🏅 Only a few weeks to go!

01/15/2022

🆕 Registered students can now learn code with mentors in free after school workshops in Blue Hill and Deer Isle — thanks to our amazing partners at the Haystack Fab Lab! ⬆️ Registration is open! Don’t miss out! 🔜 🏁

01/11/2022

🏁 Registration is open for our fifth annual coding competition! And we’re partnering with Haystack’s Fab Lab to offer coding workshops after school in Blue Hill and Deer Isle! There’s never been a better time or more resources available to help students learn code right in our communities! 🏁 Link in bio ⬆️ for details and registration!

12/17/2021

Pioneer Prize + Haystack Fab Lab are partnering up to offer CREATIVE MAKERS. An after-school program of ‘digital workshops’ for local youth! Meet-ups are two hours each for ten weeks. Check it out! 🏁🔜

06/27/2021

12/31/2020

Register for our Design Thinking Workshop where we’ll be exploring app ideas, creating empathy maps, identifying challenges and focusing on creative ways to solve them.

We’ll be hosting sessions during the first two weeks of January!

The Pioneer Prize competition awards cash prizes for the best software projects by teenagers in the Blue Hill Peninsula and select towns.

12/18/2020

As 2020 comes to a close (at last) let’s celebrate again the competition’s most recent winners 🎉🥇🥈🥉🏅🏅We can’t wait to see who will win the next round this summer! If you’re eligible, register today! Link in bio ⬆️ @ Blue Hill, Maine

12/06/2020

Design Thinking is a great way to understand a problem better, how it affects people, and how you might best solve it with digital technology. This year, the Pioneer Prize will be hosting a design-thinking session open to students of the Blue Hill peninsula and Deer Isle schools. Interested? You can read more about it in the Ellsworth American:

BLUE HILL — Pioneer Prize 2021 is ready to roll again this new school year, as an incubator of creativity, with a new offering: a “design sprint,” a

12/03/2020

We are excited to say that registrations are starting to come in! Thinking of joining the competition? Visit pioneerprize.com/register

The Pioneer Prize competition awards cash prizes for the best software projects by teenagers in the Blue Hill Peninsula and select towns.

11/11/2020

Pioneer Prize has a new offering for this year's student competitors: A Design Thinking Workshop.

Mentors Eli Baird and Todd Gilmour will be hosting this virtual event to help students harness their creativity to jump start their projects using this professional approach to technology development.

To sign up or find out more, message us here, or email us at [email protected].

07/10/2020

Well done, Pioneers 👍

BLUE HILL — For most of this year before the pandemic, 14-year-old Ian Bowden would catch the bus to George Stevens Academy. But on at least one occasion,