The Entrepreneurial Journey is Back!
4th ACS ATHENS OPEN
Empowering ACS Athens through Innovation and Creativity
Applications open for students currently in grades 8 & 9
The ACS Athens Open program helps students turn innovative ideas into real products that enhance the school environment, promote sustainability, or foster conscious citizenship. With an initial budget of 2,000 euros and ongoing support from entrepreneurs and experts, students receive guidance through every stage of development, including prototyping, market exploration, and connecting with potential customers, partners, and investors.
“Think Global, Act Local”
Categories
We are specifically looking for ideas that…
Drive campus sustainability
Ideas that save energy, reduce waste, or help us take better care of the environment at school.
Revolutionize the Classroom Experience
Creative ways to make learning more fun and comfortable using improved tools, furniture, or tech.
Cultivate Conscious Citizenship
Inspiring students to be kinder, more responsible, and more aware of the world around them, while promoting happiness, reducing stress, and supporting overall wellbeing.
Reimagine ACS Athens Life
Got something creative that doesn’t fit a category? Anything that makes everyday life at ACS Athens smoother, more fun, or more convenient (lunch, hallways, clubs, schedules, etc.). We still want to hear it!
Boost Merchandising & School Spirit
Fun ideas for school merchandise, spirit wear, or ways to show pride in our school.
Advance Athletics, Health & Sports
Strategies to enhance sports facilities, training, safety, teamwork, or school-wide physical activity.
Engineer Accessibility Solutions
Solutions that ensure every student can fully participate, with particular support for those with disabilities.
Amplify Music & Performing Arts
Ideas that improve school music, theater, band, choir, or performance experiences and spaces.
Inspiration for thought starters…
Automatic room light controllers
to adjust light colors and brightness across the classroom
A nutrition and food calculator
to help you monitor your meals at school
Automatic irrigation system
for watering the school plants
Fashion wearables
that detect your happiness mood
* A conscious citizen is one who values human life, the relationship with all living things, connecting with a higher purpose, and takes responsibility for transforming skill into action through ethical decision-making to improve life and living on the planet.
Why join
Utilize strategies to transform ideas into startups.
Work with experts and mentors to guide you
Showcase your solution to universities and companies.
Secure investments to grow your idea.
Timeline
February 27 - March 24
Open Call for Ideas
April 2
Finalists Announced
(up to 10 ideas will be selected)
May 8-9
Innovation Bootcamp
September 2026 onwards
Incubation of New Ideas
Deadline to Apply: March 24
EcoSmart Bins
An AI bin that guides students through the correct process of recycling. The bin is made up of: a screen that communicates with the user and automated bin entrances. The automated bins ensure correct recycling, while the AI enabled screen guides students through the correct recycling thought process, and allows them to gather house points, so as to both motivate and educate.
EduGreens
EduGreens is focused on teaching communities about sustainable food production. The initiative uses hydroponic systems, including a green wall to show how plants can be grown using less water and space. EduGreens also includes a complete hydroponics kit that provides everything a person needs to start and continue growing plants, making sustainable food production easy to learn and maintain in a school environment.
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IntegratED
IntegratED is an educational computer platform aimed at teaching refugees valuable skills and things they can use in their life. The platform aims to connect the refugee student with a local student in order to foster skills and finding their talents. We hope to implement our platform with the Y2Y program in hope that it can be actually tested and proven to be a worthwhile endeavor.
GlobalLingo
GlobalLingo is a peer-to-peer language learning platform for young learners, where students make friends while learning languages through real conversations and cultural exchange. Unlike traditional apps, GlobalLinguo focuses on communication, collaboration, and helping kids connect globally in a safe and interactive environment to discover new cultures.
Peerfluence
An online peer-to-peer tutoring platform that creates a seamless way to schedule, manage, and track tutoring sessions fully integrated within a school’s system. By fostering a cohesive, student-led tutoring community, we empower students to reach their full academic potential in a comfortable, non-intimidating learning environment.
LOGYRA
LOGYRA is an inclusive, teacher-first learning platform that assesses how students learn and helps educators adapt instruction at scale. By analyzing classroom learning patterns, LOGYRA transforms teacher materials into personalized, accessible formats and provides actionable teaching strategies—so every student can understand, engage, and succeed without replacing the teacher with AI.
EconQuest
EconQuest is a financial literacy game that aims to teach teens and students broad knowledge of money and thus make them confident for their future financially independent lives. It will achieve these goals through game mechanics that will make the app engaging. Using lessons, simulations, rewards and progress tracking, students will be able to learn and enjoy it without realising that they are learning.
ECHO
ECHO is a website that connects high school students with children in need through meaningful giving and storytelling. Students can donate, exchange guided letters with a “hero” child, and eventually have the option to create a short e-book that highlights the hero’s life, strengths, and memories. This turns charity into a personal, educational experience that creates passion and highlights underprivileged children as inspiring leaders.
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