Creativity for a Better Future
The prizes:
- Fully-paid internships at top companies
- Representation on our Innovation Gallery
- Best ideas presented to business and policy community
#3 Environment Activist
#1 School of
the Future
MASK Awards 2021
Art shapes Creativity. Creativity shapes Innovation. Innovation shapes the world.
Media Partners (Kenya): The Star, Citizen TV, Hot 96, ViuSasa
MASK Awards is the renowned competition for schools and young people in Africa that support and honour their creativity and innovation.
Enter your best ART or INNOVATIONS, or both. Win great prizes!
Push the boundaries of your imagination! Voice your ideas for a better future! Showcase your creativity to the world!
Enter before June 1
All entries are free
Youth unemployment in Africa is critical. As a result of COVID-19, millions more jobs have been lost. As a way of surviving the crisis, can you generate your own job?
Humanity is facing an environmental emergency. World leaders have failed to take action to address the problem. Do you have ideas about how we can protect the planet?
Current education system is not fit for purpose in modern society. Can you re-imagine a new type of education that empowers young people for the life in the 21 century?
#2 Young Entrepreneur
Innovation awards
Creativity turns people into innovators who deliver cutting-edge solutions to challenges and change the future.
Enter your best solution to one of these three challenges. It takes just one idea to change the world. And it could be yours!
Art awards
Creativity shapes innovation, but it is art that shapes creativity. Art better than any other subject teachers us to imagine, invent and originate.
Enter your best artworks on any theme and in any medium.
The prizes:
- Schools receive up to 100,000 Ksh in total
- Winning artists receive up to 200,000 Ksh in total, representation on our Art Gallery and participation in our national and international exhibition programme
How to participate
#1 Read the briefs before entering. Then create a MASK account for yourself or your school by filling a registration form.
#2 Upload any number of your best ARTWORKS or INNOVATIONS to that account before 1 June. All entries are free!
#3 All participants can get a Participation Certificate and attend the MASK Award Ceremony in Nairobi on 20 October.
Our partners
Support MASK Awards. Join our visionary Media, Prizes and Venue partners who help MASK Awards to be such an international success.
Andrew Skipper
A personal donor
Images on this page are by MASK talent: William Mukiri, Haji Ibrahim, Alpha Odhiambo, Edwin Wainaina.
Creativity for a Better Future
With your support we can equip our young people with creativity and innovation they need to build a better future