News Update
EPA announces Campus RainWorks Challenge
Staff report
Enviro-Net
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching its eighth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge, a design competition open to colleges and universities across the country. EPA seeks to engage with students to design innovative green infrastructure solutions for stormwater management, showcasing the environmental, economic and social benefits of these practices.
“The Campus RainWorks Challenge gets students excited about innovative infrastructure that provides clean water for campus communities,” said EPA Assistant Administrator for Water David Ross. “The program engages the next generation of potential clean water professionals and fosters the interdisciplinary collaboration necessary to solve the problems of the future.”
The challenge will foster a dialogue about the need for innovative stormwater management, asking interdisciplinary student teams to design creative green infrastructure solutions that address stormwater pollution and benefit the campus community. Teams may submit entries in two categories—demonstration projects or master planning.
Each first-place team will earn a student prize of $5,000 to be divided evenly among student team members and a faculty prize of $5,000 to support green infrastructure research or training. Second-place teams will win a $2,500 student prize and a $2,500 faculty prize.
Registration for the 2019 Challenge opened Sept. 1, 2019, and closes Oct. 15, 2019. Registrants must submit their entries by Dec. 17, 2019, and winners will be announced in Spring 2020.
More information about the Campus RainWorks Challenge is available at: https://www.epa.gov/green-infrastructure/campus-rainworks-challenge-0.