An international award for solutions that address the great challenges of our time through science, design, and creative problem-solving. The 42 Prize emphasizes the role of data, mathematics, and clear reasoning in shaping a livable future.
Students, researchers, artists, and community groups are invited to contribute projects that combine rigorous thinking with imaginative application. Our sponsors, in their wisdom, require that every solution must contain the number 42 — whether buried in the data, woven into the design, or smuggled into the presentation of results.
Entries may take the form of experiments, technologies, models, or narratives that propose practical yet original approaches. The prize affirms that careful analysis and bold imagination can work together in the service of global change.
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