2001
Dec 5, 2000
Students start on paper sails in hopes of netting $15,000
May 22, 1999
UNIVERSITY
OF MAINE STUDENTS TRIUMPH IN PAPER KAYAK COMPETITION, COLLECT $15,000
PRIZE
Students from Across the Nation Making Final Preparations to Paper Kayak to Vie for $20,000 in Prizes
January 19, 1999
Students Building Paper Kayak in Hopes
of sailing to $15,000 Prize
September 12, 1998
Students from Across Nation Vie for
Energy Challenge '98 Title, Get Lesson in Design Efficiency
September 3, 1998
Egg-Ceptional Students Hope Packaging
Will Yield $15,000 Award
September 24, 1997
Students from Across the Nation get a
Lesson in Pulp and Paper as They Prepare for Energy Challenge '98
NEWS MEDIA CONTACTS:
U.S. Department of Energy:
Sarah Manion, (303) 275-4709
Project Manager, IPST
(404) 894-8277
STUDENTS FROM ACROSS NATION VIE FOR ENERGY CHALLENGE '98 TITLE, GET
LESSON IN DESIGN EFFICIENCY September 12, 1998 -- Student teams from
eight colleges across the nation received a lesson in design efficiency,
packaging technology, recycling and waste minimization and pulp and paper
at the Energy Challenge 98 competition, held today in Atlanta, Ga. The
competition involved college teams designing and constructing a package
made solely of chemical wood pulp, secondary wood cellulose and paper
chemicals to protect a raw egg when dropped up to 20 feet onto a solid
surface. Top honors went to the University of Colorado at Denver who collected
the top prize of $15,000 for the school s Engineering and Applied Science
department. The University of Maine received second and Georgia Institute
of Technology received third place in today s competition.
The purpose of the competition, sponsored by the US Department of Energy,
the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST), Hercules Inc. and
the pulp and paper industry, was to foster education and awareness of
manufacturing design efficiency, packaging technology, recycling, waste
minimization and pulp and paper industrial processes.
The competition is associated with the US Department of Energy s Agenda
2020 -- a program to help the pulp and paper industry reach the vision
of more energy efficient manufacturing processes in the year 2020. Other
schools who competed in today s Energy Challenge 98 competition included:
Clarkson University, Miami University in Ohio, Mississippi State University,
North Carolina State University and Western Michigan University.
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