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# [Q&A with Amaya Fuentes and Guilianna Schamy, ThinkCERCA Social Impact Challenge Winners](https://blog.thinkcerca.com/qa-amaya-fuentes-guilianna-schamy-thinkcerca-social-impact-challenge-winners)

 Written by [Elizabeth Riley Boyer](https://blog.thinkcerca.com/author/elizabeth-riley-boyer) | February 01, 2015

Amaya Fuentes and Giulianna Schamy are Grade 4 Social Impact Challenges winners from the Hollywood Academy of Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, Florida. Here, we chat with Amaya and Giulianna about the challenge and their winning project.

**What were your thoughts about the Social Entrepreneurship Challenge when you first heard about it?**

Amaya: *My thoughts about the Social Entrepreneurship Challenge when I first heard about it were amazed thoughts. I thought that this was a great opportunity for me. I couldn’t wait to get started.*

Giulianna: *When I first heard about the Social Entrepreneurship Challenge I thought that if I put in my best effort I could win this challenge.*

**How did you decide on what problem to solve? Do you have any personal connection to it? Have you been learning about it in class? Or some other way?**

Amaya: *We decided on our problem when we realized that this was a big problem that nobody really deals with. It was also a problem that we had been thinking about for a while and knew impacted many people.*

Giulianna: *We decided on trying to solve violent video games because we knew it has been a problem for a long time and many upsetting things have occurred because of this problem. I know about this topic because my mom has given me a lot of information on it.*

**How did you come up with your solution? Did you brainstorm a lot of ideas, or did one idea come to you suddenly? **

Amaya: *We came up with our idea while brainstorming. Giulianna and I both just came up with it! It was like a switch went off in our heads! We knew the right answer.*

Giulianna: *Well my partner Amaya and I were brainstorming a lot of ideas when all of a sudden our solution just hit us.*

**What were some of the biggest challenges you found as you worked on your idea ? How did you overcome them? **

Amaya: *Our biggest challenge was probably finishing in time. We had so much going on that we had to hurry! We only had about 6 days! We also had to figure out how a Prezi worked.*

Giulianna: *Our biggest challenge during our project was finishing it in a week.*

**What was the best or most rewarding part about this project? **

Amaya: *I personally think that the most rewarding part about this project is knowing that I helped raise awareness for this topic. This is very important for me because I have witnessed this happen.*

Giulianna: *The most rewarding part about this project is knowing that we were one of the six winners in a nationwide challenge.*

**What are your plans for the future? Will you continue to work on this project or on other Social Entrepreneurship Challenges?**

Amaya: *My plans for the future include the performing arts, but I will continue to raise awareness about the prevention of violent video games!*

Giulianna: *My plans for the future have to do with the arts but I will still keep working on putting an end to violent video games.*

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