Board Converting News, November 2, 2020

PPA Announces Winners (CONT’D FROM PAGE 14)

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them hands-on experience with paperboard. Second, by designing for TICCIT, they’re helping to educate an even younger generation—schoolchildren who will one day have the opportunity to choose renewable, recyclable pa- perboard packaging.” The 2020 Students Design Challenge Winners are: • 1st Place: Ryerson University: Team: Dorotea Bajic and Laura Rendell-Dean. Advisors: Natalia Lumby and Jay Park • 2nd Place: Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT): Team: Rachel Goldberg, Luke Hallick, Brianna John- son, Allison Kunz, Jenna Robinson. Advisors: Carlos Diaz-Acosta, Lorrie Frear, Emily Barclay

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• 3rd Place: Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT): Team: Valeria Bornacelli, Michelle Kim, Ashley Markiewicz, Margaret Seleznev. Advisors: Sandra Krasovec, Adam Straus • Honorable Mention: Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT): Team: Daeya Shealy, Erica Boyd, Anna Schum- Houck, Sierra Babcock. Advisors: Carlos Diaz-Acosta, Lorrie Frear, Emily Barclay Student designers at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) won the third place award.

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The first-place design will be put into production and adapted for use in the TICCIT program. Winning student teams and their academic programs received monetary awards – first place: $5,500 to the team/$5,000 to the school; second place: $3,300 to the team/$3,000 to the school; and third place: $1,650 to the team/$1,500 to the school. Visit paperboardpackaging.org for more information. Student designers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) took home an Honorable Mention.

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