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PMI Announces ‘Make Reality’ Winners

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Project Management Institute (PMI) has announced the winners of its first Make Reality Challenge™, a global competition for Rising Leaders to bring creative and strategic solutions to life using no-code/low-code tools—all while making a social impact. This year’s Make Reality Challenge competition consisted of nearly 10,000 college or university student contestants ages 18-24 globally.  

Citizen development is on pace to be the most disruptive agent of change in a generation and Gartner predicts that by 2023, citizen developers will be 4 times as prevalent as professional developers.  By using no-code/low-code platforms in the Make Reality Challenge™, Rising Leaders were able to develop solutions to help address some of the world’s most pressing issues more quickly and efficiently.

“At PMI, we believe in the power of Rising Leaders, and empower and enable them to drive social impact and change through project management skills,” said Michael DePrisco, interim president & CEO at PMI. “Through the Make Reality Challenge, these innovative thinkers built useful solutions to help solve some of the world’s biggest challenges from climate change to inequality. They are truly using their time and knowledge for good.”

Nearly 5,900 Make Reality Challenge teams across 65 countries were …


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