What is the President's Sustainable Solutions Challenge? This challenge encourages student-led innovation in sustainability on CU campuses. As part of RaCAS 2024, students with ideas for sustainability innovations compete for up to $2500 in cash prizes in the following categories: Policy, Society, & Community, Sustainability in our Environment & Technology, and Disparity/Parity in the Arts. View 5-minute instruction video or Instruction Slides.
Policy/Society/Community:
- Practices/Approaches that support long-term economic growth without negatively impacting a community's social, environmental, and cultural aspects.
- Evaluate the impact of activity and devise sustainability goals to create a more livable future.
- Fulfillment of basic human needs regarding the ability to lead a whole life, such as happiness, satisfaction with life, finding meaning, and flourishing.
- Sustainability in health and wellness creates needs for current generations that will not harm future generations.
Sustainability in our Environment & Technology:
- Practices/approaches to support, maintain, and improve future interactions without compromising the future of resources or needs of our environment.
- Technology and materials that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
- Conserving energy and consumption.
- Creating equity in access for broader adoption.
Disparity/Parity in the Arts:
- Artistic endeavors that are produced with consideration for the broader impact of the work and its reception in relationship to its environments (social, economic, biophysical, historical, and cultural).
Projects will be judged on a scoring system of 1 -5 on the following:- Clearly explaining the research or work
- Ability to indicate a “better future” from the result of this work
- Ability to measure the impact potential of this work within the category
- Ability to implement findings/practices of the work
- Overall organization of poster or presentation of the work