TCS goIT Student Challenges at the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon and the TCS New York City Marathon Support U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / November 10, 2025 / The 2025 goIT Student Challenges at the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon and the TCS New York City Marathon encouraged students to design concepts for apps that improve health and wellbeing. In the days leading up to each race, teams of local K-12 students presented their digital innovations and business plans, demonstrating how their ideas could create pathways to better health. In addition to receiving certificates and other accolades, the winning teams had the privilege of being finish-line VIPs, greeting and celebrating winners of specific races at the two premier running events.
At the goIT Student Challenge in Toronto, three sixth grade students from Grenoble Public School won with a proposed app called "Healthy Habits" that is designed to help people quit smoking through proven strategies and gamification support for encouraging healthy behavior. Along with three other teams, Emma, Houssam, and Muhammad Eisa pitched their winning idea to judges, all volunteers from TCS and the Canadian business and nonprofit communities. They were selected among 116 student entrants as the top innovators in the competition.
In New York City, three middle school teams presented to judges from the TCS New York City Marathon Pavillion stage. Along with the presenters' teachers, fellow students, and participating runners from TCS, judges from New York Road Runners and locally headquartered businesses listened to each group's pitches, marveled at the global citizenship and ingenuity they witnessed, and picked a winner.
The winner team members, AJ, Colin, Greyson, Lucas, Mason and Matthew, were fifth graders from Bretton Woods Elementary School. Their winning app concept, "Don't Be Dangerous," addressed public health, infectious disease and air and water quality.
"What surprised me about the student presentations were the charisma they displayed and just how polished they were," said Michael Wang, a volunteer judge at the New York City event. "Anybody would be impressed with the energy these young people gave to creating and solving these really big, real-world problems."
The events, and the global goIT Monthly Challenges for October and November, sought to engage youth in support of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that address improved health for all, and which can help create a stronger future for children. In doing so, goIT affirmed young people as global citizens and creators, while expanding their career readiness and innovation skills.
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