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KnoPro is 100% free and gives high school students meaningful work-based learning experiences they can highlight on resumes and college applications. Sponsored by top companies, each challenge helps students build in-demand skills, confidence, and opportunities to win large cash prizes.

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Teachers & Students - Sign up for the Lenovo Second Life, Smarter Tech Challenge today and you could win!

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Sign up 10+ students for the Lenovo Second Life, Smarter Tech Challenge for a chance to win $250.

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Join the Lenovo Second Life, Smarter Tech Challenge for about a 1-in-6 chance to instantly win a gift card up to $150!

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Real-World ProjectsDo short, fun projects from top companies in fields like AI, Business, and Healthcare.

Cash PrizesWinners earn cash, and everyone earns points for major prizes and raffles.

Build Your ResumeShowcase your work to potential employers, colleges, and scholarship committees.

MentorshipWork solo or in teams, and get feedback and support from industry professionals.

More than $300,000 awarded to students and schools

KnoPro celebrates student creativity and problem-solving by awarding cash prizes to students and schools for outstanding industry project submissions. These rewards recognize hard work, innovation, and skill development—helping students gain confidence and real-world experience for resumes and college applications.

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Looking for real-world experiences to make your college application and resume stand out? Challenges are competitions you can do on a team or solo—in school or out!—where big money's on the line just by helping solve a pressing industry or community problem with your real-life knohow.

Second Life, Smarter Tech

Look around you. Your phone, laptop, earbuds, and game console all took materi... More

Earns

+400 Points

Winner

$10000

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Daily Skillbuilders

10 minutes a Day. Earn Points & Skills.

Level-up your skills and career knowledge by creating TikTok videos, persuasive emails and more!

MarketingProblem Solving

Think Inside the Box

Effort: 10 minutesOnline shopping is easy, but it comes with a lot of boxes. A 2024 United Nations report found that buying online creates nearly five times the packaging waste of buying in a store. That is why packaging engineers at Amazon slam, shake, drop, and stack boxes in test labs, looking for the least packaging that still gets a product home safe. Lenovo took on the same problem with its own laptop boxes. For its ThinkPad laptops, it swapped out plastic and foam for bamboo and sugarcane fiber, plants that grow back fast. That change cut 548 metric tons of plastic. Its bamboo box even won a Good Design Award in 2022, proving a box can look great without the plastic. Your Task: Imagine you are a packaging designer. A company has hired you to redo the box for one product, using far less waste and making it even cooler to open, the way Lenovo did it. 1. The Gift Think of something you would love to get as a gift, like new shoes, a video game, or something else. Say what it is. (1 sentence.) 2. How It Comes Now Think about how that gift usually arrives, from the shipping box to what is inside. Say which parts are wasteful and which part, if any, makes opening it fun. (3 sentences.) 3. The New Box Redesign the packaging with less material and renewable materials, like bamboo, paper, or something that grows back. Say what you cut, what you use instead, and what makes your box cooler to open than the old one. (4 to 5 sentences.) Want to win up to $5,000? Check out the current KnoPro Challenge: Second Life, Smarter Tech. It runs from Nov. 2nd through Nov. 6th. More

Earns:
10 pointsAwarded:
(1) $100 e-gift card

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Testimonials

"KnoPro provides students with fun and exciting opportunities to creatively tap into their thoughts and get rewarded for their ideas. It is an engaging site that keeps students coming back for more!"

Maira Jamil

Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology

“I was really impressed with the creativity... they made me feel good as a teacher. Experiences like these are what make teaching so rewarding.”

Mark Godinez

South Dade Senior High

“The KnoPro project was relevant to them because it made them think about how they could apply technology in their future careers."

Guilia Matarasso

Monarch High School

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Healthcare

Ilyas G. & Kartheek K.

Healthcare is Hiring

You're in charge. How would you fix the healthcare worker shortage? Healthcare is running ou...Learn more

5 weeks ChallengeEarns: +400pts

Problem SolvingCommunicationSocial Awareness

Awarded:
$5000

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Highlighting our commitment to providing high school students with real-world, project-based learning experiences that develop in-demand skills.

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