The Kids Will Save Us – Meet the Top 25 Teams of the Next-Gen Mask Challenge

Oct 09 2020

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Out of 992 entries to help change global mask wearing behavior, 25 of the most creative, forward-thinking masks designs remain. Meet the designs and their creators. 

The Top 25 teams moving forward in the $1M XPRIZE Next-Gen Mask Challenge are youth ages 15-24, representing 12 countries. They’ll move to the second round and their designs will go to manufacturing partners to assess the design’s ability to scale rapidly. From those results, XPRIZE will announce up to 10 semifinalists on November 9, 2020. 


Meet Team Lone Ranger


Meet Team Vitruvians


Meet Team Naija Force


Meet Team MD Covid Care


Meet Team R&N


Meet Team Veil


Meet Team 6Minds


Meet Team Merlin!


Meet Team Novus


Meet Team Organic Intelligence


Meet Team Mask X


Meet Team The Sages


Meet Team Molecure


Meet Team Rolling Robots


Meet Team Luminosity Lab


Meet Team Polair


Meet Team With All Passion 


Meet Team Innovation Design


Team Res-Q 


Team PROTechThor


Team Aspir8 


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