Humber Map the System 2024 Competition - Call for Participants

We’re excited to announce the Humber Map The System (MTS) 2024 Competition!

Registration for students in MTS 2024 is open now. This is the fifth year of the competition at Humber and this year’s winning team will receive a funded trip to the in-person Canadian Finals in Calgary.

What is Map the System?

Map the System is a unique global, systems thinking competition run by Oxford University that challenges students from any discipline to explore and map a complex social or environmental issue they care about. Rather than jumping straight into ‘innovation’ and ‘new’ solutions, Map the System asks students to understand issues at a deeper level and to investigate the scope of existing efforts to solve the problem before recommending their own points of intervention.

Who can participate?

Map the System is open to all Humber students from any faculty who want to learn more about a problem they are passionate about. Teams can be made up of individuals, or groups of up to five people. Students may take part in Map the System as part of a course project or independently.

What will students do? Students will: 

  • Develop a systems thinking mindset
  • Learn and apply system thinking tools
  • Hone research, analytical, and presentation skills
  • Have access to resources and workshops throughout the competition
  • Build connections with other innovative, change-making students, faculty, and practitioners from within Humber and the wider community 
  • Compete to win a fully funded trip to the Canadian Finals in Calgary

Faculty can:   

  • Embed the competition in a course you are teaching – connect with us to learn more
  • Give students an option to participate in the competition in lieu of another course assignment - ask us how this works
  • Act as a judge (in April) in the Humber competition 
  • Reap the support of experienced faculty, Systems Thinking resources, lesson plans, slides, activities, and much more
  • Recruit students from your classes to participate on a global MTS team

What is a global team?

We are looking for students to join a MTS global team. Humber College is running the MTS competition internationally, as a COIL project where students and faculty from Via University (Denmark) Otago Polytechnique (New Zealand) and Humber College come together virtually to collaborate on a systems project. We offer students weekly (online) skill-building workshops, demonstrations, and mentorship to support them throughout the competition. Please consider making this unique opportunity known to your students and get in touch with us to learn more!

Have Questions? 

Email us: Elinor Bray-Collins: elinor.bray-collins@humber.ca, Sara Hassen: sara.hassan@humber.ca, Isabel Sousa: isabel.sousa@humber.ca.