Winners of ‘Voto Latino Innovators Challenge’ Bring Tech Solutions to Latino Issues

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Latinos use digital media more than any other ethnic group, surveys show.

Voto Latino, an organization that empowers Latino millennials to promote positive change, is challenging young Latinos to put their digital media expertise to work.

The Voto Latino Innovators Challenge was created to get Latino millennials thinking about technology both as an innovative change agent and as a potential career. To be entered into the Challenge, projects must use a tech tool to address a need in the Latino community.

In early March 2015, Voto Latino announced this year’s winners who took tech-savvy creativity to new heights.

Winning projects include:

• A program that uses technology to improve health for migrant farmworkers in rural Virginia
• A mobile app that aims to help adolescent Latinas improve their mental and emotional health
• A mobile app that gives Latinos a way to interact with local government
• A mobile app to connect Latino students with Latino mentors working in the health field
• A 6-week online course for Latino business owners to access on the go
• A mobile app and website for Latino youth to help them navigate through the steps taken upon entry into the [juvenile] system
• A mobile app to help undocumented students find scholarships

The winners will split $500,000 in grants and spend two days on the Google campus in California where they will be paired with members of Google’s Marketing, Creative Labs, and Android teams, among others.

For more information about the Challenge, this years’ winners and how to apply, click here.