Example Challenges
Recent Challenges
Adobe challenged our students with, “How might we validate the ‘authenticity’ of digital content shared on social networks and attribute the content to the creator?”
AiCure challenged our students with, “How might we use artificial intelligence to motivate and impact behavior change in patients?”
AntiDefamation League challenged our students with, “How might we create tools or services to support likely and actual targets of cyberhate and cyberharassment?”
frog challenged our students with, “How might we use wearables and/or sensors to enhance a design researcher’s ability to draw more valuable insights while in the field?”
Google challenged our students with, “How might we encourage people to get a balanced view on controversial topics such as gun control regardless of their (political) leanings?”
HALE.life Corp challenged our students with, “How might we present comprehensive and complex health information in an easy, interactive, and portable format for patients?”
HSBC challenged our students with, “How might we develop a universally accepted, user-controlled digital passport?”
Robin Hood challenged our students with, “How might we create a new online marketplace that harnesses the power of the sharing economy to benefit low-income wage earners?”
Votem challenged our students with, “How might we rethink voting to make democratic decision making and elections more verifiable, accessible, secure, and transparent?”
Wayfair challenged our students with, “How might we bring the traditional ‘touch and feel’ furniture buying experience to customers on mobile platforms?”
Weight Watchers challenged our students with, “How might we tackle teenage weight loss in a manner that makes teenagers feel good about themselves and not like they are on a program?”
Past Partners
- Amazon
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Bloomberg
- Betterment
- eBay
- IBM Watson
- New York Times
- NYC Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence
- Robin Hood
- Roku
- Two Sigma
- Weill Cornell Medicine
*Students should note that Product Studio partner companies are not prospective employers by default and that student interaction with a company through the Product Studio course is not predictive of future employment. For information on the career services that Cornell Tech does offer to students, please visit Career Management.
