About Us
Our Mission
At SIMAD, our mission is to inspire and empower the next generation of innovators. Through hands-on competitions and global participation, we aim to foster creativity, leadership, and a passion for STEM amongst youth. SIMAD is committed to providing free as well as accessible opportunities for students in both high school and undergraduate years aimed at honing their scientific, mathematical, problem solving, and collaboration skills through practical application and innovation in a variety of STEM-related fields. SIMAD aims to host its own international competitions relavent to a variety of fields including healthcare, engineering, business, and computer science. SIMAD will also offer other opportunities including workshops and networking events.
Workshops and Networking Events
Simad sporadically hosts workshops and networking events where individuals are invited to engage in, learn from, and connect with, speakers and peers from all over the world. In this venture, SIMAD hopes to foster an increasingly interdependent community of innovators materializing their aspirations on the global stage.
Our Competitions
SIMAD is the host of many international competitions spanning throughout the school year. Alongside many events pertaining to science, business, and medicine, one of its flagship events is YLEC—centered around practical innovation in engineering. The main objective of these events is to provide a free opportunity for applicants to develop their skills relevant to a specific field of STEM. Additionally, SIMAD strives to provide their winners with contemporarily valuable recognition and accolades. For example, Phase 4 of YLEC involves individuals pitching to sponsoring company executives the idea they have conceived to remedy a specific issue presented by the aforementioned company. In the case of a victory in this stage, successful competitors are provided both monetary compensation as well as the opportunity to realize the product of their ideation as interns at these major companies. This both provides them with real-world experience but also allows them to kickstart a potentially successful product with the aid of an interested corporate entity. SIMAD provides similar remunerations in other curated competitions. Stay tuned for more information updated in SIMAD’s comprehensive dashboard.