Cumulus partner, Biodesign Challenge, has announced its winners for the 2021 competition during the BDC symposium on June June 21st – 25th, 2021.

We are especially proud to announce the results of the competition due to the fact that many of the winners are students from Cumulus member institutions, i.e. the winning project by Joseph Cardenas and Sarah Craven from College for Creative Studies, Detroit.

Congratulations to all the winners also from Cumulus!

For more information on the competition please see here.

You can see the results of the challenge below:

OVERALL WINNER RE-FORM: REFORMATION OF THERMOFORMING MATERIALS

College for Creative Studies, Detroit: Joseph Cardenas, Sarah Craven

OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION DIRTY PLAYGROUND

Design Academy Eindhoven: Manuel Steitz, Coltrane Mcdowell, Serina Tarkhanian

OUTSTANDING FIELD RESEARCH LIXILAB

Universidad de los Andes: Valentina Pérez Escobar, María Alejandra Parra García, María Valentina Forero Sierra, Lina Natalia Sánchez Medina, Laura Camila Velasco Ortega, Daniela Julieth Barón Gutiérrez

COMMUNITY CHOICE SPOIL

The Design Village: Tanish Agrawal, Arshad Bajil Kuttasseri, Kunika Sharma, Natasha Singh

SCIENCE SANDBOX PRIZE FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT BIOTECH PALETERO CART

Nest Makerspace: Camilla Cabrera, Austin Henry, Roberto Mendoza, Alec Saldana-jauregui, Samuel Gil-silva

RUNNER UP SUB·VER·SIVE /SƏBˈVƏRSIV/ – BIOFASHION FOR BLACK LIVESS

Spelman College: Mika Campbell, Grace Burch. Abigail Gordon, Savannah Adams

OUTSTANDING SCIENCE DIPWRAP

Aalto University: Ena Naito, Louise Kallai, Emilia Ikävalko, Sari Kupiainen

OUTSTANDING SOCIAL CRITIQUE RIVER DEFENDERS

Ball State University: Dominic Zelli, Jonathan Alexander, Ashlyn Sterling, Erin Mawhorter

OUTSTANDING INSTRUCTOR ANUSHA DHAWAN AND SNEHA RAVISHANKAR

The Design Village

BARILLA PRIZE FOR REGENERATIVE LIVING ECOSYSTEMS PERMAPAK

School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Kelly Yue Xi, Sara Selmic