Posts Tagged ‘competition’
Veggie Growers Competition
Posted in Events by EcoCentre on January 25th, 2012
| 11 February , 2012 | ||
| 11:00 am | to | 2:00 pm |
Port Phillip Urban Food Network – PPUFFN – is hosting its first ever veggie growers competition
We’re searching for the best offerings from edible gardens right across Port Phillip. As well be as well as local food growing entrants, we need spectators to help us decide the winners! There are 5 entry categories, including best-tasting tomato variety, monster veg & most unusual edible plant. Plus an honorary award for the most weird and wonderful looking contribution!
$450 prize pool / winners by popular choice / swap tips with other food gardeners.
So, get ready for some horticultural muscle flexing and join us on the day!
Full competition entry details
Saturday 11 February, 11am
St Kilda Youth Service Training Site, Cnr Pickles & Richardson St, Port Melbourne
(only 5 mins from Bay St shopping st)
Enquiries: paula – 0417 501 383 / gardeners@ecocentre.com
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Melbourne’s Urban Forest: Art & Design Competition
Posted in Seeking, Visions by Kate Archdeacon on September 13th, 2011
Photo: “Bees & Mushrooms” by Dale Gillard via flickr CC
Melbourne’s Urban Forest Art and Design Competition
The City of Melbourne is holding an Art and Design Competition to celebrate the UN International Year of Forests and to raise awareness in the community about the importance of our Urban Forest. Winning entries will receive a prize and will be displayed at various high profile public locations across the City of Melbourne in the months of November and December. Learn more about our Urban Forest in the fact sheet.
We are seeking powerful visual statements about Melbourne’s Urban Forest. We’d like you to visually explore either of the following themes:
- why trees are important to you
- your vision for Melbourne’s future urban forest
We encourage everyone to think about our trees as they will not only benefit us, but the next generations of Melburnians to come. Trees play a key role in every person’s daily life, whether they know it or not. That’s why everyone should have a say in how our future Urban Forest should evolve. The competition is open to several age categories, including Open (over 18), Secondary School, Primary School, and Under 5s.
The competition closes at 5.00 pm on Friday 14 October 2011.
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ParksandActivities/Parks/Pages/UrbanForestCompetition.aspx
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2011 ‘Dig Your Dinner’ Schools Competition
Posted in Movements, Seeking by Kate Archdeacon on July 22nd, 2011
Make a stand against the bland! Celebrate good food, as it should be with all its bumps and imperfections. Grow it for real, from budding seed to brimming plate and join in on the quest for taste!
Following the success of last years “Dig Your Dinner” competition, the Organic Expo & Green Show are delighted to announce we are running this fun and inspiring competition again as part of our commitment to encourage future generations to lead a healthier and more sustainable life. Schools across VIC are invited to join in the challenge and “Dig Your Dinner” – A fun and easy competition to show how simple it is to grow your own food, free from artificial nasties.
There are two categories in which to enter:
1. Pre-schools/Primary Schools
2. Secondary Schools/Colleges (dependent on entry numbers these may be split further).
Your school will grow your favourite seasonal vegetables and herbs and nurture them into a bountiful crop in time for the Organic Expo & Green Show. You will then bring the best of your produce to the show creatively displayed in a wheelbarrow (competition to be judged on Saturday 15 October 2011).
• Celebrity TV gardener Vasili Kanidiadis will be there to meet your school and judge the best vegetables
• Vasili will use the winning veggies in a cooking demonstration showing how you can create a delicious, healthy and inexpensive family meal
• The winning schools will become the Dig Your Dinner Champions VIC 2011 and Vasili will present you with a trophy and prizes
Entries Close September 23
http://melbourne.organicexpo.com.au/dyd
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Energy Saver Initiative: Competition
Posted in Seeking by Kate Archdeacon on June 13th, 2011
Energy Saver Initiative
There are many ways to save energy. So tell us in a few words (max 150) what your organisation has done or could do to save energy and you could win $10,000 to lower energy use even further. It’s all part of Bendigo Bank and Carbon Down joining forces to encourage environmental sustainability initiatives in Victorian businesses and organisations.
1st Prize $10,000 to reduce your organisation’s energy use
2nd Prize $5,000 Bendigo Bank financial planning advice and services
3rd prize $1,000 VECCI Sustainability Services Energy Assessment
If you’d like some ideas to get you started, go to www.whatcanidorightnow.com.au, www.carboncompass.com.au, www.growmethemoney.com.au or www.bendigobank.com.au/greenbusiness. There’s solutions, case studies and a whole lot more to inspire you.
PLUS, all entries will receive a FREE energy saving power board*. Now that’s an incentive (especially as stand-by power can equate to 6% of a business’s energy bill!) . Enter today. The more businesses and organisations that participate the better it is for our environment.
The competition closes Midnight 30th June 2011.
* While stocks last. There’s over 5,000 to give away.
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Design for an Active City: Competition
Posted in Seeking, Visions by Kate Archdeacon on June 6th, 2011
Source: Australian Design Review
Victoria’s State of Design Festival has launched an urban design competition inviting Victorian designers to transform a major thoroughfare in central Melbourne. The Design for an Active City competition seeks “implementable, site-specific proposals to improve the pedestrian experience on the northern footpath side of Collins Street Bridge as it spans Wurundjeri Way, and thereby increase pedestrian activity.”
Proposals for the temporary installation should address a 50-metre stretch of the 350-metre bridge, which runs from Spencer Street to Batman’s Hill Drive. Shortlisted submissions, selected by a panel of experts, will be on show during the State of Design Festival, with the winner announced at a public panel discussion held on 25 July. The winning entry will then be constructed and installed as a temporary project from October to December 2011, serving as a short-term installation while the development of the bridge linking the CBD with Spencer Street Station and Docklands is still under construction.
Event partner VicUrban will provide $25,000 towards the development and construction of the project. The competition spotlights the role of design in stimulating increased physical activity through interventions in the built environment, and supports the 2011 Festival’s theme, Design That Moves.
Entries to the competition are now open.
Site visit 3.00pm June 8 2011
Submission deadline July 6 2011
Winner announced, exhibition opening and public panel discussion July 25 2011
Design for an Active City is run by State of Design in partnership with VicUrban and GHD. For full submission requirements and resources go to www.stateofdesign.com.au/dfac/
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Food Challenge Awards 2011: Now Open
Posted in Seeking by Kate Archdeacon on April 5th, 2011
Image from Food Challenge Awards 2010
The Food Challenge Awards were established by Food Magazine in 2004 to recognise and reward best practice and innovation in food and beverage processing in Australia and New Zealand. Now in its 7th year, the Food Challenge Awards has become a pivotal date on the food and beverage industry’s calendar; drawing together the great and the good, from newly launched boutique operations, to fully established international enterprises.
Categories include Organic & All Natural and Sustainable Manufacturing
Nominations are now open for the Food Challenge Awards 2011 until May 10th.
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Design Competition: From Offcuts to Furniture
Posted in Models, Seeking by Kate Archdeacon on February 24th, 2011
Source: Australian Design Review
The Chapman and Bailey Sow’s Ear Challenge is an opportunity for furniture designers to flex their creative muscle and test their innovative flair. Using our waste, namely a large volume of hoop pine stretcher off-cuts in random lengths and variable profiles, and Belgian linen scraps in various sizes, designers are challenged to create an innovative, beautiful, and functional item of furniture. Although the use of linen scraps is optional, the piece of furniture must be made largely, or entirely, of hoop-pine stretcher scraps. The furniture must also be able to be reasonably constructed by Chapman & Bailey’s skilled craftsmen, and not require arcane equipment or methods beyond our means. The winning entry will be made-up by Chapman & Bailey’s furniture craftsmen and will be displayed in conjunction with Inside Magazine at State of Design in Melbourne, late July 2011. All individuals and organisations are welcome to enter.
To enter the Chapman & Bailey Sow’s Ear Challenge please register your interest and we will keep you updated. Feel free to contact us for any more information that you may require at sowsear@chapmanbailey.com.au
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Electric Vehicle Rally & Racing Car Competitions
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on November 30th, 2010
| 12 December , 2010 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 4:00 pm |
Photos courtesy ATA EVIG
The ATA‘s Electric Vehicle Interest Group is holding their inaugural rally, The Future of Transport, on Sunday December 12, in conjunction with the Formula SAE competitions where both Swinburne University and the RMIT University will be competing with their electric racing cars. Everyone is welcome.
What is Formula SAE all about?
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) is an international organisation that encourages Universities and Colleges to build a racing car each year to a specific formula – Formula SAE. The event is now into its 10th year with the first being held in 2000. This year there will be 27 teams from Australia, New Zealand, America, India, Japan and South Korea attending.. Two teams have entered electric cars (Swinburne University & the RMIT University) and 3 teams will be using E85 (ethanol blend). The cars are judged on a number of criteria including endurance and fuel efficiency – not just speed!
The rally will include electric vehicles (EVs) on display, food stalls and vehicle charging stations, so take your own EV along if you have one (let the organisers know ahead of time if you need access to a charging point, please).
Displays will include:
* A variety of electric bikes, mopeds and several high powered registerable electric motor bikes (including one of 8kW)
* Numerous Retro-fit vehicles where you can talk to the owners
* The Aurora solar race car
* Several Blade electric cars
* An electric quad bike
* An electric go cart
* Information on a home grown electric hill climb car
* An electric 4 wheel drive Kawasaki Mule
* Several EV charging stations ( petrol stations of the future )
* A trailerable biodiesel generator
* A demonstration PV charging station
* Crown Coaches electric hybrid bus
* An ATA stand with goods for sale
Bring your EV to show it off. Invitations are open to anyone who has an electric vehicle (car, bike, truck etc) to come along and be a part of the experience.
How to Get There
1. Electric car or electric bike
2. Electric hybrid bus (see below)
3. Electric train – $3.10 Sunday Saver all day full fare ticket – when you get to the Hoppers Crossing station call us on 0433 187 702 to be picked up by the electric hybrid bus or another electric vehicle)
4. OR – heaven forbid but if you really want to stay in the last century – use a fossil fuelled vehicle
Sunday 12 December 2010, 10:30am to 4pm
Victoria University (Werribee East campus), Hoppers Lane, Werribee (Melways 206 J6)
More details on the website, including maps, contact details and an opportunity to make the entire trip in an electric coach.
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Future Shots 2010
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on September 10th, 2010
| 15 November , 2010 |
Are you aged 25 or under and want to win some great cash and prizes? The Future Shots Sustainability Film Challenge is now open. For the second year running, Future Shots invites all young Victorians to create a short film of under three minutes addressing the theme of sustainability.
You could film a drama, documentary, animation, music video, advertisement, a blend of these, or even a new genre altogether! All you have to remember is to stick to the Future Shots theme of ‘sustainability’. You might even like to make a film with one of our major prize entry categories in mind: ‘water-smart cities‘, ‘waste-free Victoria‘ or ‘smart energy‘. There are over $9000 in cash and prizes to win across 10 categories, so all young Victorians – whether you’re 5 or 25 – have a great chance of being in the running.
This year’s film entry deadline is November 15 so now’s the time to start conjuring, storyboarding and filming your best ideas.
Visit the Future Shots website for more information.
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Inspire Meaningful Change Through Game Design: Competition
Posted in Seeking by Kate Archdeacon on April 28th, 2010
Image: rockmixer via flickr CC
Design 21: Social Design Network is Looking for the Next ‘Game Changer’
Crises tend to have a bad connotation, but they can also act as catalysts for change. Seeing the flip side of the recession as a chance to start over, DESIGN 21 – an online platform founded by Felissimo and UNESCO to promote better design for the greater good – developed the Game Changers competition. Creatives from across the globe are invited to design a game that creates change by improving lives or inspiring new behaviors. DESIGN 21 will award $3,000 to the winning ideas.
Although the world has been rocked by a deep recession, it has forced many to reset priorities and rethink the future creatively. The design industry is a fitting example and throughout history has responded to troubled times by adopting new materials, technologies and thought processes. According to Felissimo Director and DESIGN 21 Founder Haruko Smith, “We created the Game Changers competition as a means for our global network of designers to spur positive and meaningful change in the world.”
Entrants are asked to develop an idea and design a game that improves lives or inspires new behaviors whether for an individual, group or community. It can involve teaching new life skills or proposing a more sustainable way of living, working or interacting with others. Digital and traditional forms of games are accepted and can involve any number of players as long as it includes an element of fun. Entries must be illustrated and accompanied by a clear description.
Members of DESIGN 21′s Advisory Board will judge the submissions based on creativity, practicality, quality, aesthetic appeal and overall effectiveness. Two designers will be awarded $2,000 and $1,000 for first and second place, respectively.
Deadline for entries: May 11, 2010
For more information, please visit: http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/26
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