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JMU Challenge 2012

Engaging Students in Collaborative, Creative Problem-Solving

JMU Challenge Promotional Video

 

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.  We can have the greatest impact by changing social behavior. Student teams must propose and develop a new process, product, or service that can be implemented to improve environmental stewardship practices at JMU. Up to $5,000 in funding will be used to implement the winning solution (or solutions) on campus.

Goals

• Promote critical thinking about environmental stewardship.
• Build skills in project cultivation, proposal development, and professional practice.
• Generate ideas and develop viable solutions that can be implemented to improve environmental stewardship practices at JMU.

Competition

Apply Now!

For details and to apply, see the application packet. 

Any JMU student, faculty, or staff member (or a team of these) may submit a preproposal.  Final proposal teams may be different from pre-proposal teams but must include at least one student and at least one employee (faculty or staff).

Participating Organizations

Center For Entrepreneurship, Net Impact, and the Institute for Stewardship of the Natural World.

Example of a winning team proposal

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

If you have questions or would like more information, please email stewardship@jmu.edu.