ELEVATE: A BYU–Idaho Competition for Interdisciplinary Innovation

Learn about ELEVATE and how you can explore complex problems and create solutions through collaboration.

Promote Your Innovative Ideas

The ELEVATE competition provides a unique opportunity for students from varied disciplines to work together to solve problems through an interactive process that can’t be found elsewhere on campus. ELEVATE will inspire students to find solutions to problems and provide a chance to make a difference.

Come Join ELEVATE

During college, most things happen within your own field of study. You go to classes with the same people, share the same professors, and even have a specific building. ELEVATE provides students with a unique opportunity to experience collaboration across disciplines. Four to six students will work in interdisciplinary teams to choose a problem to solve and present an innovative solution to a panel of judges.

Elevate Competition Dates

Kick Off
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Crossroads | 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Competition
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Clarke Building | 5:30 p.m.

Rehearsal
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
MC Special Events Room | 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Final Competition
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
MC Special Events Room | 5:00 p.m.

Four BYU-Idaho students in professional attire smile next to an ELEVATE sign during the competition finals.

Elevate Competition Dates

ELEVATE Council

Student Directors

Baylee Boggess
Taylor Johnston
Avery Brown
Events Management Team

Advisor/IDS Council Member

Becky Parker
ELEVATE Director
parkerr@byui.edu

Past ELEVATE Presentations & Finalists

BYU-Idaho students organized presentations about how students can create and maintain healthy relationships by managing stress and harmful distractions.

Finals

Connecting Students

#Reconnect

Box It

Keep It Chill

iFound

Healthy Relationships

Wondering what finals look like?

See the announcement of the first, second, and third-place finalists for the 2019 ELEVATE competition.

Use the BYUI Student Life App

Team B6 discusses ways BYU-Idaho students can maintain healthy relationships with each other through positive campus extra curricular activities. They explain how to use the BYUI Student Life app to connect with other students.

What is True Reconnection?

Team D3 defines what true connection is and how students can use social media to reach out and reconnect with someone they do not normally talk to. They explain the use of the social media hashtag #Reconnect.

Box It Up!

Team B6 defines what "phubbing" is and how to maintain healthy relationships by boxing up cell phones to engage in meaningful conversations. The campus-wide Box It campaign is explained.

Take a 10-Day Challenge for Better Relationships

Team F4 surveyed 50 BYU-Idaho students about ways to handle everyday challenges. They explain the social media hashtag #KEEPITCHILL and how it will help students create 10-day challenges to improve their relationships with each other and with God.

Combat Loneliness with iFound

Team E2 proposes an app called iFound, which will help students combat anxiety and loneliness and offer resources to network with other students with common interests. They discuss the dangers of feeling isolated with excessive technology use.

Managing Relationships in the College Culture

Team G4 discusses different types of relationships and that to build healthy relationships is a skill that must be learned. They propose implementing a two-week curriculum change in classes called College Success, to help freshmen and transfer students adjust to college life.

Fall 2023 Winning Team

The winning team proposed a redesign of the halls outside the testing center. They recommended covering the front hallway with encouraging, colorful posters and the exit wall with a large mural in cool, calming colors. The team also designed an interactive digital post-test scavenger hunt that would motivate students to visit resource centers.

From left to right: Ethan Stringham, Douglas Rohal, Shaun Vann, Camryn Anderson, Natalia Ward, and Sophie Smith.

Fall 2023 Elevate Competition Panel of Judges