Our shared goal:

to create ideas to make your neighborhoods healthier and happier places to live!

Stark Idea Quest is a collaborative initiative of The Stark County Educational Service Center, the Community Building Partnerships, the OSU Extension Office, and TomTod Ideas. This community-focused, entrepreneurial challenge is modeled after the television show Shark Tank and is designed to help middle schoolers create ideas to help our communities thrive.

This year’s Stark Idea Quest competition challenges teams of 5-10 middle school students to create an actionable $500 project that will make their neighborhoods healthier. Student teams will get to work alongside community development professionals from Community Building Partnership and TomTod Ideas to learn about the aspects of a healthy neighborhood. Over 8 weeks, students will get to analyze real community data, interview neighborhood development experts, and survey their neighbors and classmates to discover new and needed ideas for their neighborhoods.

After exploring their local neighborhood’s needs, the teams will create and pitch an idea that they think will make a neighborhood near them healthier and happier! The winning team will receive $500 and support from TomTod Ideas to prototype their idea this school year!

This year's Stark Idea Quest will be held on Friday, March 21, at Kent State University at Stark.

RSVP Info:

If you have been invited to participate as a judge, please RSVP with a "Judge" ticket in the top right corner.
If you are a parent, teacher, or other community guest, please select "General Admission" when RSVPing in the top right corner.

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Stark Idea Quest

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Stark Idea Quest

A Middle School Idea Pitch Competition