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Young Winners from Around the World Recognized for Game-Changing Sustainable Solutions for the Circular Economy of the Future

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Offering new ideas to positively impact the world, three university student teams have been named the winners of Wege Prize 2022, an international student design competition organized by Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD). Sharing the competition's largest purse ever, totaling $65,000 USD, the three teams are advancing solutions for today's "wicked problems" such as hunger, waste, pollution, and climate change.

Key Points: 
  • Through an immersive process transcending fields of study, cultures, and institutional boundaries, Wege Prize teams are inspired to reframe normal ways of producing and consuming.
  • The teams engage in intensive research, testing, networking and prototyping, with direct feedback from the competition's panel of expert judges.
  • The winners of Wege Prize 2022 are:
    3rd Place ($10,000): AquaPro, a super-efficient aquaponics system to grow fish and vegetables.
  • Planting seeds that develop leaders in economicology, health, education, and arts, and enhance the lives of people in West Michigan and around the world.

International Student Competition Highlights Sustainable Solutions for 2021 -- Five Finalists Include African, South American Teams

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Friday, May 7, 2021
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"Every team presented a thoughtful and creative approach for helping transition our linear economy of taking, making and disposing, into a circular one that\'s restorative by design.

Key Points: 
  • "Every team presented a thoughtful and creative approach for helping transition our linear economy of taking, making and disposing, into a circular one that\'s restorative by design.
  • Ultimately, the final five teams have demonstrated the best of a collaborative and cross-disciplinary nature through their meaningful and actionable proposals.
  • "\nReflecting Wege Prize\'s expanding international presence, four of the finalist teams are from African countries, and one is from South America.
  • Examples from recent Wege Prize iterations include Rutopia, whose 2019 concepts for eco-sensitive tourism have got the attention of top editors at Forbes, among others.

International Student Teams Redesign How We Produce and Consume -- Wege Prize Ideas Make World Debut, May 29

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
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On May 29, college/university students from around the world will illustrate the power of collaborative, transdisciplinary problem solving to a global online audience in the culmination of Wege Prize 2020.

Key Points: 
  • On May 29, college/university students from around the world will illustrate the power of collaborative, transdisciplinary problem solving to a global online audience in the culmination of Wege Prize 2020.
  • The event will be streamed live online at the Wege Prize website.
  • The Wege Prize 2020 finalists are:
    What if one of the world's most invasive plants could help spell the end for single-use plastic cutlery?
  • These five teams will present and defend their solutions live in front of competition judges and online audiences on May 29, 2020, at the 2020 Wege Prize Awards.