9th Annual Sustainability Design Challenge

Sunday, October 4 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Harney Science Center — 148 - CS Kudlick Interactive Classroom

2025 Sustainability Challenge participants

Program Dates

Day 1 - Oct 3 (9:00 AM to 5:00 PM)

Day 2 - Oct 4 (9:00 AM to 6:00 PM)

Venue: Innovation Hive, Harney Science Center (click for campus map)

Students spend two days collaborating in interdisciplinary teams to learn and apply design thinking to sustainability issues at USF and beyond. Participants will tackle pressing global sustainability issues using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a guiding framework, to co-create impactful solutions addressing challenges like climate change, clean energy, health, and inequality. Through rapid ideation, design thinking, and hands-on prototyping, participants will learn how to align their innovations with the SDGs while developing scalable solutions.

Registration Deadline: Oct 1, 2026 by 11:59 PM, if capacity is reached, then you will be added to a waitlist

Questions? Please e-mail engineering@usfca.edu

For more info: https://ycenter.org/sdg/usf