Registrations are open, and youth aged 16 to 21 are invited to participate in the WixTomorrow Creators of Tomorrow Challenge. The last date for entry submissions is March 31, 2025.
About the Competition
Creators of Tomorrow is a website creation challenge designed to equip young innovators (ages 16-21) with future-ready skills, entrepreneurial mindsets, and professional tools to be the trailblazers of tomorrow. The UN Sustainable Development Goals are like a to-do list of 17 social and environmental issues for people and countries to work on together to build a more sustainable and fair future for all. Do some research about the SDGs, discover which ones truly speak to your passion and values, then brainstorm how your website can effectively communicate the importance of these goals and motivate others to take action.
Steps
Learn Web Creation Skills
Follow along with three videos created just for you to level up your web creation knowledge, get inspired, and learn industry-level skills. Your learning journey is up to you — you can watch as much of these videos as you’d like and learn at your own pace.
- Workshop 1: Building with Wix – Get to Know the Editor
- Workshop 2: Manage with Wix – Business Solutions
- Workshop 3: Grow with Wix – Marketing Tools and SEO
Create Your Site
Now for the most important part! Use your new knowledge gained from the videos to build a website that addresses an issue in your chosen impact space. Choose a Wix template to get started, or start from scratch. For more information about what your site should include for the Challenge, you can find more details about the requirements below.
Submit Your Site
When you’re ready, you can submit your website for a chance to be accepted to the second part of Creators of Tomorrow: the Mentorship Cohort and the Challenge Finals, where winners will receive up to $2000!
Learn more about the second part of the Creators of Tomorrow Challenge: The Mentorship Cohort and Challenge Finals from May to early June.
Prizes
- 1st Prize: $2000,
- 2nd Prize: $1000,
- 3rd Prize: $500.
Mentoring Cohort
Selected projects will be chosen to participate in an exclusive Mentorship Cohort, where they will work with Wix experts to take their websites and ideas to the next level. If selected to join this cohort, participants will get an inside look into professional design and entrepreneurship practices, 1:1 coaching to polish their projects, and the opportunity to participate in the Challenge Finals.
Challenge Finals
In June of 2025, the Mentorship Cohort will participate in the Challenge Finals. They’ll submit their final websites and project summaries to a panel of judges, who will decide on the Challenge Finalists. The winners of the Challenge Finals will receive up to $2000.
How it Works?
- Choose your global issue: Pick an SDG that speaks to you and start researching to learn more about how to tackle it. Build a Wix site around one of them, you can use the videos to learn more about working with Wix. To get started, pick one of the template ideas, start from a blank site, or choose another Wix template from Wix.com. To learn more about the projects we’re looking for and the submission requirements, check out the Project Submission Guidelines.
- Submit a website to be considered for participation in the Challenge Mentorship Cohort. Submissions open on February 2025 and close on March 31, 2025. In early May 2025, we’ll announce which projects were selected to participate in the Mentorship Cohort.
- The Mentorship Cohort will run from May 6, 2025 to May 27, 2025. During this time, you’ll be paired with an employee from Wix who will serve as your Mentor. You’ll get access to 1:1 online feedback sessions and additional workshop opportunities to grow and polish your idea and website. You’ll also receive a 1 year Wix Premium Account to support your site.
- In June of 2025, the Mentorship Cohort will participate in the Challenge Finals. They’ll submit their final websites and project summaries to a panel of judges, who will decide on the Challenge Finalists. The winners of the Challenge Finals will receive up to $2000.
Submission Guidelines
To be considered for the Mentorship Cohort:
- All participants must be 16-21 years old on the submission date.
- Where required, participants must ask for parental consent before participating in the challenge.
- You can work in a group of up to 5 participants.
- Your project must be built with Wix and use at least one of Wix’s business or marketing solutions.
- Your site’s language has to be English.
- Sites do not need to have a Wix Premium plan. When using business and marketing solutions, you can add these features to your site and design them as you’d like, but you do not need to upgrade to unlock any Premium features. (For example, you can add Wix Stores to your site but not set up Payments.)
- Websites can either serve as the impact project idea itself, or serve as a way to communicate or market an offline impact idea. For example, you could create a website with a forum that serves as an online community for climate action organizers, or you could create a website that serves as a marketing site for a nonprofit.
- We will consider the following when evaluating your project to be considered for the Mentorship Cohort:
- Impact space: Does your project idea align with one of the four impact spaces?
- Clarity: Is your idea clearly communicated? Is there a clearly-defined solution idea that addresses a problem?
- UX/UI Design: Is your website easy and intuitive to use?
- Innovation and Creativity: How unique and creative is your idea?
How to Register?
Interested participants can register through this link.
Deadline
The deadline for submission is March 31, 2025.
