Prepr empowers individuals and teams to build both soft and hard skills by tackling real-world challenges to create business opportunities and unlock their infinite learning potential.
Mission is to build a Global Lab Network of Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, & Educators and to co-LEARN, co-LAB, and co-SOLVE™ real world challenges and create business opportunities.
PIE is an interdisciplinary problem solving framework with 3-phases, and 15 steps to help you go from an idea to market in 90 days or less.
Apply the PIE method to real-world challenges by co-creating solutions in your portfolio to showcase your skills that matter.
Get recognized for solving challenges over time and become a verified member of the
Prepr Network.
Here are the phases of PIE that will help you build projects and create your portfolio.
Build a cross-functional agile team and learn to get things done.
Understand your users' problem and create solutions that delight them.
Experiment with channels, customer segments and your value story to find a story that fits.
Become a Verified Problem Solver. Gain Skills by Tackling Challenges. Win Prizes, Unlock Trophies, and Get Recognized by Employers. We help students future proof their skills by helping them tackle real world problems, create projects to build a portfolio, and showcase their skills.
Explore our collection of challenges in the Network and select a ones that you’re most passionate about working on. Save them to your list and explore Labs near you to form a team and begin starting a project to tackle that challenge with a team who shares the same passion as you. From tackling one of the 17 UN Global Goals to exploring Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, you set your path.
Labs are places where like-minded people co-create together by co-learning to co-lab and co-solve real-world challenges and create business opportunities. From you school, to a nearby co-working space, incubator, corporate innovation lab or entrepreneurship support organization, we’ve made it easy for you to discover teams, experts and resources near you.
Build and manage your portfolio of projects on the Prepr Lab Network. Learn how to master the use the PIE method solve problems quickly and get your project showcased!
You can store all of your work-in-progress and share with your team – once you’re done, store your final pitch assets and short elevator pitch in your project overview along with key artifacts in your project gallery for other solvers and experts in the network to provide you with feedback.
You choose whether your projects are viewed publicly or kept private in your portfolio. Track your project over the course of your school and get rewarded along the way by maximizing your ILP™ (Infinite Learning Potential).
By continuing to tackle challenges, join labs, create projects, build teams and provide feedback on other projects, you earn Prepr Points. Overtime, you rank up your ILP™ and unlock key medals and trophies to showcase your skills an talent.
By successfully winning challenges and participating, you can receive rewards from our partners and sponsors and trade your points to unlock additional resources, tools, and programs to continue to build of your Infinite Learning Potential (ILP™).
Futur(e) Challenge is a national initiative designed to bring together the public and private sector to join forces and establish programs to address the skills gap facing many organizations.
Through workshops and an open challenge call, it explores the intersection of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence with key industries such as Automotive, Food or Energy. Want to explore what’s new and next while looking at where and how industries should focus on up-skilling? Get involved today.
Start tackling real world problems with featured challenges from the United Nations sustainable development goals.
Eradicating poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice and the key to unlocking an enormous human potential.
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Over 265 million children are currently out of school and 22% of them are of primary school age.
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
3 in 10 people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 6 in 10 people lack access to safely managed sanitation facilities.
Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity the world faces today.
There needs to be increased access to financial services to manage incomes, accumulate assets and make productive investments.
Manufacturing is an important driver of economic development and employment.
A world where 1% of humanity controls as much wealth as the bottom 99% will never be stable.
Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more.
If people worldwide switched to energy efficient lightbulbs, the world would save US$120 billion annually.
The warming of the earth has continued through 2016, setting a new record of about 1.1 degrees centigrade above the pre-industrialized period.
By protecting forests, we will also be able to strengthen natural resource management and increase land productivity.
Among the institutions most affected by corruption are the judiciary and police.
A successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society.
“What I really love about the PIE Method is that it takes Design thinking and entrepreneurship and it puts them together in a nice, seamless, and iterative manner.”
I am very impressed with Prepr … In short, which does not do it justice, it may be the best business planning program that I have ever seen.
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