The 2019-2020 Registration is open and closes on the 13th March 2020.
Papers are due by the 3rd April 2020.
The Spellman Clean Tech Competion focuses on the need to solve global environmental challenges through scientific nethodology and innovative thinking among high school students. It is a world wide competition open to all 15 - 18 year old secondary students from any nation in the world.
2020 Topic: "Reducing Individual Impacts"
The constant question on many environmentally conscious people’s lips is “What can I do to make a difference?” This can have a difficult answer, because it never feels like you are doing enough. Which is why this year we have chosen to focus the Spellman HV Clean Tech Challenge on how we as an individual can instigate change.
Categories
When it comes to our individual impact, a large portion of that is influenced by what resource scenario we find ourselves in: do we have a large number of resources at our disposal, or do we have only a few. For the 2020 competition, our categories will allow us to explore the role each of these scenarios possess.
Limited Resources:
When most people thinks of negative environmental impacts, they often do not think of communities that have a limited resource pool. For many years this may have been the case and these communities could get by fine. But in the current era, individuals in these areas need more sustainable options than ever. Whether it is burning forests for grazing grounds, wasteful land use for agriculture, water resources that are scarcer by the day, or a whole litany of others, these communities need sustainability more than they ever have.
Abundant Resources:
Individuals in these communities have traditionally caused the most
damage and waste, and the time for that to end is long past. There are a more ways to make their lives more efficient and more sustainable than ever before, but many of these do not go far enough. We can always improve, and those that use more resources in a day than some in a year, they need to improve for the sake of us all.
The 2019-2020 competition outline in pdf format is available here.
Each year the final event is held at Stony Brook University, New York, USA in July.
A Factsheet outlining Australian Government STEM Grants available for students participating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics events within Australia and overseas is available here.
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