Get inspired! Find a solution to a real-world problem (Simling student looking at camera)

Think creatively. Solve a real-world problem. (Simling student looking at camera)

Believe in yourself and create something great. (Simling student holding books, looking at camera with a backpack)

Get ready for your future, and lead a team to victory. (Smiling student using a laptop)

It doesn't take a genius to come up with a great idea. (Simling student looking at camera with a backpack)

What game-changing idea will you create. (Simling student looking at camera while standing next a locker)

Work together and see things in a whole new way. (Simling student looking at camera with books)

Help me discover my potential to make an impact. (Simling student looking at camera with books and pencil)

Create something that matters. (Simling student looking at camera with headphones around their neck while sitting in wheelchair)

The A.H. Nickless Innovation Award competition is your chance to WIN BIG!

Enter the A.H. Nickless Innovation Award competition for an opportunity to create game-changing projects and win a share of the up to $77,500 in prizes awarded to students and schools each year.

Here’s your chance to develop ingenious yet real solutions for problems facing our world today … and compete for a scholarship for yourself plus a grant for your school. We are looking for great minds of every kind – a well-rounded mix of creative, business-savvy, marketing-minded, artistic, and science- and math-focused people. Anyone can do it!

The goal of the competition is to inspire passion for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) among high school students in the Great Lakes Bay Region in order to promote personal development, educational advancement and economic growth.