FAST COMPANY WINNERS OF 2020 WORLD CHANGING IDEAS AWARDS
MUSEUM OF TOMORROW SELECTED AS HONORABLE MENTION
New York, April 28, 2020 โ The winners of Fast Companyโs 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to flattening the curve when it comes to the climate crisis, social injustice, or economic inequality.
The Museum of Tomorrow (MoT) is humbled and excited to be recognized as an honorable mention in the students category because of the way it breaks down the gigantic climate change issue into tangible and relatable exhibits for visitors. MoT combines environmental education with pop-culture, as visitors explore eye-catching igloo and interact with instagrammable exhibits. Through these colorful and engaging exhibits, visitors will learn easy changes they can make in their everyday lives that will make a huge environmental impact! MoT helps to transform peopleโs mindset on the issue of climate change, changing a seemingly negative and depressing subject into fun and empowering experience. By giving visitors the ability to interact with exhibits together as a community, the Museum of Tomorrow inspires action outside its walls.
โMuseum of Tomorrowโs social orientedness brings together Millenials and Gen Z alike to celebrate sustainability as the new black on their personal accountsโ — Jessica W. Ho, co-founder & CEO
Now in its fourth year, the World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 26 winners, more than 200 finalists, and more than 500 honorable mentionsโwith Health and Wellness, Corporate Social Responsibility, and AI and Data among the most popular categories. A panel of eminent judges selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 3,000 entries across transportation, education, food, politics, technology, and more. The 2020 awards feature entries from across the globe, from Vancouver to Singapore to Tel Aviv.
Illustrating how some of the worldโs most inventive entrepreneurs and companies are addressing grave global challenges, Fast Companyโs May/June issue celebrates, among others, an electric engine for airplanes that eliminates emissions from flightsโand expensive fuel from the tricky financial calculus of the airline industry; a solar-powered refrigerator that finally frees people in remote villages from daily treks to distant markets, transforming the economics of those households; an online marketplace that connects food companies with farms to buy ugly and surplus produce to fight waste; and an initiative to offset all of the carbon costs of shipping, creating a new model for e-commerce sustainability.
โThere seems no better time to recognize organizations that are using their ingenuity, resources, and, in some cases, their scale to tackle societyโs biggest problems,โ says Stephanie Mehta, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. โOur journalists, under the leadership of senior editor Morgan Clendaniel, have uncovered some of the smartest and most inspiring projects of the year.โ
About the World Changing Ideas Awards: World Changing Ideas is one of Fast Companyโs major annual awards programs and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and brave concepts that make the world better. A panel of judges from across sectors choose winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With a goal of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to start working on solving the problems that affect us all.
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