Oh, the places you’ll go!
The Magenta House Expo honors the work of LA’s middle school students who are tackling the regions most pressing water and power challenges. The 2024 Expo was the inaugural event in an annual showcase.
The 2024 Magenta House Expo happened on Saturday April 6, 2024. The event was the culmination of weeks of work on the part of 9 middle schools and over 18 teams, all competing for cash prizes and a chance for their work to be honored at The Pando Sustainability Awards at Caltech.
The Expo is like a science fair but focused on water and power conservation and efficiency projects that students have developed through the Magenta House Accelerator. Cash prizes are awarded to teachers to further team support and project development.
Expo criteria for project assessment
Projects should be designed as “small bets” — quickly achievable, real-world prototypes that use simple, practical means to test big ideas.
Expo judges will assess them according to the following criteria:
–Innovation (new approaches) and/or creativity (execution of ideas)
–Implementation strategy and viability
–Impact assessment – qualitative and quantitative, real and predicted
The Magenta House Accelerator helps students get their projects Expo-ready!
Students take advantage of the Magenta House Accelerator to prepare for the Expo. The Accelerator supports student innovation from beginning to end and helps ensure competitive submissions.
The Expo is the first-of-its kind science fair-like opportunity for sustainability that’s coupled with a full-range project accelerator.
See innovations from Magenta House
Student projects have included an innovative worm-composting system, water-friendly designs for shoes, podcasts, and even a guidebook for creating water-friendly landscaping.
