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Competition promotes green electronics
Electronics engineers, students and inventors around the world are invited to submit designs for an innovative product that uses electronic components and has a positive impact on the environment.
Farnell has announced the Live Edge Electronic Design for the Global Environment competition, now in its second year The competition is designed to provide a forum where electronic design engineers and students can design products that are environmentally friendly through the use of electronic components
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Registration for news, updates and activities begins on 6th May, 2008 via the Live Edge website or on the Live Edge Design Challenge group on Facebook.
The Live Edge website will soon feature social networking tools and a community forum for engineers to share and develop ideas.
Entries can be submitted between 1st October 2008 and 31st January 2009.
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Judging will start on the 1st of February 2009 and winners will be released on the 2nd April 2009.
The competition is open to anyone aged 18 or over.
Electronics engineers, students and inventors around the world are invited to submit designs for an innovative product that uses electronic components and has a positive impact on the environment, for example by increasing energy efficiency or reducing carbon emissions.
The winning entrant for both the full-time student and the general/open category will receive a cash prize of US $25,000 as well as a design support package valued at an additional US $25,000 to move their design towards production.
The support package will include the services of an electronic design consultancy to help develop the design to prototype stage, assistance with legal matters and IP registration, some marketing and publicity, as well as Premier Farnell's help in securing investment funding.
The group will actively market the end product to millions of customers globally through its website, catalogue and direct marketing.
In addition, up to three entrants for the full-time student category and three entrants for the general/open category will be eligible for honourable mentions, each receiving a cash prize of US $5000.
An international panel of judges will be announced in June 2008.
It will feature a mix of innovators, engineers, entrepreneurs, academics, industry leaders and environmental campaigners and will be chaired by Sir Peter Gershon, who chaired last year's event.
He will be joined by John Noble, last year's winner from Malaysia.
Reflecting the environmentally friendly theme of the competition, Live Edge will be largely web-based to avoid international travel and transportation.
For example, the judges will confer online and it will be possible to view the award ceremony from the competition website.
"The Earth is facing environmental threats on an unprecedented scale and by unleashing the creativity that exists within the electronics industry, we can make a positive difference to these global challenges", said Harriet Green, CEO of Premier Farnell.
"Our first ever Live Edge had over 3500 registrants from over 102 countries last year, providing electronics design engineers the opportunity to have a true impact on our future and see their vision become a reality".
"We have listened to the feedback from last year's entrants and believe this year's challenge will be even better as a consequence, particularly by embracing the enormous role that universities and today's students will play in our future".
"Live Edge has truly become a design challenge for the world as we see our future in the designs of our electronic design engineers".
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