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International Sustainability Competition Highlights Today's Best Ideas -- Created by Students from Around the World

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Monday, April 17, 2023
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These groundbreaking ideas are nurtured by Wege Prize , established in 2013 and organized by Kendall College of Art and Design 's Wege Center for Sustainable Design with support from the Wege Foundation.

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  • These groundbreaking ideas are nurtured by Wege Prize , established in 2013 and organized by Kendall College of Art and Design 's Wege Center for Sustainable Design with support from the Wege Foundation.
  • The annual competition ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students worldwide to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign how economies work.
  • - Cellucoat: Students from four countries at University of Calgary innovate with a biodegradable, antimicrobial replacement for plastic packaging—and pollution.
  • - Green Poultry Farm: Addressing environmental impacts of poultry farming, students from Mozambique—in four unique majors—use anaerobic digestion to create usable waste streams.

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.

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  • 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.