Each semester at Radford University, students from courses across the university gather in the Artis Center for a conference-style showcase unlike most academic events. They come not to receive grades or hear lectures, but to present original solutions to some of the world's hardest problems: climate change, food insecurity, homelessness, democratic erosion. Students, community partners, alumni judges, and faculty circulate, ask hard questions, and push back. The students are the authorities.