November 16-22
A project launch online innovation tournament - an intensive learning experience that engages students in idea-generation and creative collaboration technique. Through a series of activities teams will come up with and present innovative, viable solutions to the Tournament challenge.
December 12 – by March 5
A series of mentoring sessions led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) e-mentors who will support US-Russia teams' work while they develop innovative STEM business concepts that will get more tourists to come to Moscow and Miami.
March 5-9 (exact dates TBD)
A mid-term project online semi-final providing US - Russia student teams opportunity to present their projects to the panel of judges who will select TOP teams with strong potential for their projects to become real businesses.
March 19 -22 (exact date TBD)
A project online final providing TOP teams opportunity to present their projects to the panel of judges. Winning teams will be selected and announced by April 10th stage.
By mid-June
Winning teams’ travel to the Silicon Valley where they meet their teammates in person and visit high tech companies.