Registration and Eligibility

Design Challenge Eligibility

1.    Participants are strongly encouraged to build diverse teams of students and professionals from interdisciplinary fields and institutions across southwest Michigan. 

2.    To participate in the Design Challenge, teams must have:
                   3 - 5 members 
                   At least 2 students
                   At least 1 design professional

3.    For a student to participate on a design team, he or she must:
                  Be currently enrolled or recently (within the last 6 mos) graduated from a higher education institution in SW Michigan.
                  Not be a jury panel member

4.    Eligible institutions include: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids Community College, Calvin College, Aquinas College, Hope College, Kendall College of Art and Design. 

Registration

1.    Registration opens Friday, April 18. The online registration form will be available at (http://www.wmich.edu/sustainability/design-challenge).

2.    Registration forms must be completed by Monday, May 19 through the online form provided. Only one registration form is required per team. 

3.    Each team must designate a student primary contact. The primary contact will receive a Dropbox invitation within 5 business days of completing the online registration form. All submitted materials must be made through the Dropbox folder.

4.    Teams are required to provide a team name.

5.    Teams are required to submit any inquires that they wish to be addressed at the Gibbs House Site Visit to the design challenge coordinator via email (design.challenge.coordinator@gmail.com) by Monday, May 19.

6.    The registration form requires each team member to provide:  
                     Full name
                     Team member role
                     Current institution / affiliation 
                     Degree program / Professional field
                     Expected graduation date
                     Email address

7.    Team members must choose roles from the following list of options. All roles must be assigned. Team members may have multiple roles. Only students are eligible to act as project manager/primary contact.

• Project manager/primary contact: Responsible for overseeing all project operations and ensuring that communications between the team and design challenge coordinator are distributed to all team members. 
• Lead architect: Responsible for the architectural and construction design effort. License not required. 
• Project engineer: Responsible for the engineering design effort. License not required.  
• Lead officer for sustainability education: Responsible for all educational and interpretive display efforts. 
• Lead financial officer: Responsible for all budgetary efforts. 
• Lead author: Responsible for organizing all submitted materials and maintaining a unified voice throughout written material.