E-Waste International Design Competition

Deadline: 1 November 2012
Open to: anyone who’s 18 or older, currently attending college or graduated since May 2010
Award: Platinum Award of 3,000 USD, a Gold Award of 2,000 USD, and a Silver Award of 1,000 USD

Description

Electronic waste, or “e-waste,” generated by computers, TVs, cameras, printers, and cell phones, is a growing global issue. Through the Second International E-Waste Design Competition, participants are asked to explore solutions to both remediate the existing e-waste problem and prevent e-waste generation in the future.

We invite you to create a broad range of design concepts and innovations for technology products that demonstrate fresh approaches and responsible solutions for green computing technologies.

For the purposes of this contest, electronic waste (e-waste) includes the following items: computers (desktops and laptops), scanners, printers, cell phones, PDAs, optical drives, televisions, DVD/VCR players, MP3 players, computer monitors, video game consoles, computer peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables), zip drives, and fax machines.

The goals of this competition are:
* to learn about ways to reuse e-waste for new and productive means
* explore your own ideas for how to address e-waste problems
* contribute to the body of knowledge that advances the practice of environmentally responsible product design for current and future computing technology products

Categories

There are two categories for entries submission:
1. E-Waste Prevention Category: Electronic components focusing on the elimination or reduction of e-waste through life-cycle considerations. An entry in the E-waste Prevention category must focus on decreasing the amount of e-waste generation. The entries in this category should focus on new products or services.
2. E-Waste Reuse Category: Focuses on the aesthetic and technical reuse of e-waste into useful electronic and non-electronic products. An entry in the E-waste Reuse category must reuse old e-waste components in order to create a new product.

Eligibility

The competition is open to anyone 18 years or older who is currently attending college, or who graduated from college since May 2010.

Video submission

Participants should create an original video composition that serves as a commercial for their product, highlighting its design, features, and special design concepts.
The video should be uploaded to YouTube and listed as “Unlisted (anyone with the link can view).” After the competition results are announced, the video can be made public by the entrants.

Video requirements
* not less than one minute and not more than two minutes long
* must be made embeddable
* turn the comments off for your video
* should include an intro screen that details the project name and name of this competition (do not include the names of the participants)

Award

The Jury will award one finalist from each of the two categories:
* Platinum Award – 3,000 USD
* Gold Award – 2,000 USD
* Silver Award – 1,000 USD
Winning entries will be exhibited to the public through the website and press events.

Application

Participants can register as individuals or as teams as long as the team has no more than 5 members.
* complete the online submission form
* each participant or team member will be required to provide proof of eligibility in ant of the following forms:
– Copy of an official transcript from the college or university currently being attended or from which the participant has recently graduated. This should be in PDF format.
– A letter of enrollment at an educational institution, in PDF format.
– A letter from the entrant’s departmental advisor, in PDF format.

Contact
Joy Scrogum, jscrogum@istc.illinois.edu, Emerging Technologies Resource Specialist, Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, UIUC; Tel 217-333-8948

The deadline is November 1, 2012.

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