This is a list of interesting articles and papers connected to the challenge so students can begin their investigation into which challenge they are interested in tackling. Challenge Launch begins the first day of Kick-Off Week all of the available challenges are open and student can begin to create teams and projects. At the very end of the year, in the summer, all of the students who fully participated in one of the fall or spring innovation challenges, meaning they turned in all of their milestone work ON TIME, will receive a certificate and a Young Membership to The New York Academy of Sciences.