Recognition and Prizes
Entries will be evaluated by a Challenge Committee, composed of the academic institutions participating in the challenge and by an international jury of experts in naval architecture, industrial design, environmental science, local representatives and representatives of the Volta Bicentenary committee.
Teams will receive prize recognitions based on their scores from the judges. These prize recognitions will be indicated on the team’s project page on the Volta27.org website.
Grand prizes & Runner Ups
Grand Prize
The Overall Winner of the Design Challenge will take home the Design trophy, and an official certification by the Volta27 and Challenge Committee. We are working to develop institutional backing for traineeship and, ideally, the opportunity for prototyping or pilot testing.
Runner Ups
The two Runner-Up Prizes go to the teams with the second and third highest scores with regard to the judging criteria and agreed by a vote and deliberation among the judges.
Special prizes
Special prizes celebrate the quality of the submission and the Design process. These prizes are offered to the teams who apply for them, with a short justification why they believe they have merits for the special prizes.
1. Outstanding Communication and Outreach
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The Outstanding Communication and Outreach prize will be awarded to the participating team with the best audiovisual presentation of their project. Judges for the prize welcome submissions across several digital formats, from longer videos to interactive websites, augmented- and virtual-reality platforms, and even video games.
The Prize is awarded to the team that best employs compelling visual renderings and creative storytelling techniques to communicate the science, context, and impact of their project, and demonstrate their effectiveness in communication by having a significant outreach and convincing narrative on social media aiming at motivating interest for innovation and Design thinking applied to sustainable navigation solutions.
The Outstanding Digital Experience and Outreach Prize serves to recognize the fact that quality digital experiences play a pivotal role in encouraging global innovation and adoption in sustainability development.
2. Outstanding Emergent Voice
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The Outstanding Emergent Voice Prize is awarded to the team that best explores and most clearly communicates an emergent view of navigation and life on the shore of the lake or communicates a social critique through the creative use of design. The team’s project will address the effects of a technology or system on users and non users, potential societal reactions to these effects, and ways to mitigate negative ones.
3. Outstanding Exhibition
The Outstanding Exhibition Prize is awarded to the team with the most engaging exhibit at the LCDF exhibition. Judges assess the clarity with which teams present their projects, the interactivity of the display. The show exhibits should convey the team’s process, learnings, and final results of their project.
4. Outstanding Science & Field research
The Outstanding Science & Field research Prize is awarded to the team that designs and executes outstanding scientific experiments or exhibits mastery of scientific techniques. They recognise the team that takes the initiative to go out into the field and interview experts as well as potentially affected communities in order to find and understand the real social impacts of their project. The experiments, field research and their analysis must be performed by the students. Students must show how their research informed the design of their project.
5. Outstanding Collaboration
The Prize for Outstanding Collaboration honors the team that exemplifies exceptional partnership across disciplines, departments, or institutions in the development of their project. This prize rewards projects where collaboration—whether between schools, research labs, community groups, or educational programs—played a fundamental role in shaping the research, concept, and outcome.