Drive to Thrive 2024

Drive to Thrive 2024
 
A high school class has not won the top prize in the Mindshare Learning Schools of the Future Challenge since 2016! Francis wholeheartedly believes that his innovative approach to solving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.6 has a chance at ending that streak. Drive to Thrive sees Francis, a gamer, using his favourite video game in an effort to halve injuries and deaths due to traffic accidents worldwide by 2030. He has accelerated past the awareness phase and into the action phase with this series of video scenarios aimed specifically at gamer teens. The goal is to deliver essential life-saving skills through a medium that teens flock to daily. He is meeting the audience where they are. This video interview is loaded with stats and purpose but you can see the glee in his eyes as he sits in his high school classroom, using his favourite video game, on the school's only capable computer, and attempts to make a real difference for our community and the Sustainable Development Goals. As Francis is under the legal age for driving this initiative is rooted 100% in empathy for his fellow CRHS Tigers and driving age students around the world.
 
Winning this contest would inspire Francis to continue his efforts to improve the world and allow his fellow Tigers to also access powerful tools to implement positive change. We hope you enjoy this interview with the high school creator of Drive to Thrive. Drive safe everyone!