NEW COMPETITION PLATFORM HELPS STUDENTS MAKE AN IMPACT ON SOCIETY

August 15th, 2013 marked the offical launch of a new student competition platform, topstudentchallenges.com. The website will help students from all over the world and all academic disciplines make an impact on society and on their careers.

The visually appealing collection focuses on presenting the most prestigious and impactful student competitions that tackle problems in society, business, education, and the environment. Through this website, students from all academic backgrounds will now be accessing details on the most impactful student contests, start-up competitions, idea challenges and essay contests with a high probability to change the world for the better.

E very year, the number of student competitions and similar extra-curricular activities is growing. Participating in these contests can equip students with vital creative and problem solving skills, which can increase their employability even in the most difficult labor markets. Through topstudentchallenges.com, students can now easily flick through the most relevant information on high-profile student competitions, with a strong focus on sustainability and social innovation issues.

Later this year, the website will introduce some innovative features like social content curation and visual storytelling to make entering competitions even more rewarding and entertaining. Students are encouraged to share their interest and comments with their peers and university friends through Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or even Youtube.

Founder/owner of topstudentchallenges.com, Dieter Welfonder, comments on the release of the website: “The launch of topstudentchallenges.com marks an exciting moment for a growing number of students from all over the world who are confident in their ability to tackle real world issues and who want to demonstrate their problem-solving abilities. The implemented social curation features help students team up with friends and their academic peers easily, significantly increasing the experience of participating in high profile competitions, and succeed.”

The website is optimized to perform with a wide range of digital devices, mobile, tablet and desktop.

Website:
www.topstudentchallenges.com

Google+:
plus.google.com/u/0/113074999343258673885

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/topstudentchallenges

Twitter:
twitter.com/topchallenges

Youtube:
www.youtube.com/topstudentchallenges

topstudentchallenges.com is an online competition hub that helps students instantly access details on top student competitions in an easy and visually stimulating manner. The website has been created by ideation expert, sustainability consultant and university lecturer Dieter Welfonder and a team of university students and recent graduates at the universities Duisburg-Essen and Cologne, Germany.

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topstudentchallenges.com
Kettenstr. 5
47057 Duisburg
Germany

Press contact:
Dieter Welfonder
Email: press@topstudentchallenges.com

This release was published on openPR.