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JMU Challenge 2011

Engaging Students in Collaborative, Creative Problem-Solving

JMU Defining Characteristic:  The University will be an environmentally literate community whose members think critically and act individually and collectively as model stewards of the natural world.

Challenge:  To create sustainable solutions for the JMU campus to reduce, reuse, recycle, repair and restore.  These solutions may be high-tech, as well as simple low-tech approaches that help JMU move towards the ideals of environmental stewardship.  The goal of the JMU Challenge is to develop a local solution (e.g., for the JMU campus) that addresses a global environmental problem.  Student teams must generate feasible ideas to progress a typical college campus towards the ideals of zero waste (e.g., lower environmental impact, lower emissions, lower energy consumption, etc).

JMU Challenge 2010 Winners

First Place - $1,000 Scholarship: XLerator

Replacing paper towel dispensers with hand dryers on campus

Matt Corbett, SMAD Declared

Matt Jeanes Computer Science

Chris Nutbrown Engineering

Neil McNulty Undeclared

 

Second Place - $500 Scholarship:  All You Can Eat Sustainability

Implement a one-plate-at-a-time rule in dining halls

Brittany Bailey, Social Work

Evan Botello, Political Science

Ranna Mohajer, International Business

Brian Sham, Quantitative Finance

Alyson Toole, International Business

 

Third Place - Kick Yourself Campaign

Viral marketing campaign with "green" tips to challenge social behavior change

Chris Carter, General Management major, Music Industry minor

Tyler Charnock, General Management major

Andrea Mitea, International Business major

Nathan Seyler,  General Management major

 

  Goals

1. Promote stewardship on JMU campus.
2. Unleash creative potential within JMU.
3. Encourage collaborative problem-solving.
4. Create a campus culture around stewardship, innovation and collaboration.

 Awards Presentation (with links to all video entries)