Deadline: 31 October 2012
Open to: students worldwide
Prize: from $10,000-$60,000
Description
Acer Incredible Green Contest encourages students at all level to create green-centric applications to generate innovative and sustainable solutions embracing energy saving, carbon reduction, ecological conversation, and other environmental issues. Most importantly is to increase awareness and understanding of caring for a green environment among general public.
Main theme of the contest is 2020 Future TechLife enabled by Green Innovation. Utilization of ICT Related Technologies to create environmental friendly solutions. Your concept can be directly or indirectly related to ICT technology.
Eligibility
Who can enter
- Students at all ages worldwide
- Actively enrolled at an accredited educational institution prior to 31-Oct-2012
Team V.S. Individual
- Individual contestant and team contestants are all encouraged
- The size of a team must not exceed 5 members
- Duplicate entry is NOT permitted
Eligibility verification
- Verification process will begin when you advance to the Semi-Final Round
Prize
- Cash prizes
- Gold Award (1 team) US$60,000
- Silver Award (2 teams) US$35,000/team
- Bronze Award (4 teams) US$20,000/team
- Special Jury Award (TBA) US$10,000/team
- Special prizes for People’s Choice Award winners
- Finalist teams (up to 2 members/team) fly to Taipei Taiwan for COMPUTEX 2013 and complementary sightseeing tour
- Tech gadget prizes for semi finalists
- Cash prize of total US$5,000 research grant for Finalist team mentors
- All entrants to receive a Certificate of Participation
Application
The contest registration and application procedure is online on the following link.