Board Converting News, November 7, 2022

Student Design Challenge Winners Focus On Innovation, Sustainability The Paperboard Packaging Alliance (PPA) announced the winners of the 2022 Student Design Challenge who were honored on October 27 during the 2022 Fall Meeting & Leadership Conference. The Student Design Challenge encourages university students in leading packaging and graphic design pro- grams to show off their creative talent, design skills and innovative approaches to meet real-world customer needs and marketing scenarios. The teams and participating schools were awarded cash prizes for their winning entries. Student teams from the following schools were named as the top three win- ners: • 1st Place: Tide, Fashion Institute of Technology, Therese Becker, Roy Cooley, Kyle Thomas and Alexandra Wal- lace • 2nd Place: Froot, California Polytechnic State Univer- sity, Heather Lopez, Thucmy Dang, Colter Pruyn, Han Wong, Fred Pastrana and Hannah Kraus • 3rd Place: Duracell, Fashion Institute of Technology,

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Ana Lucia Santana Parham, Jes- sica Campos, Nova Lam and Victor Shin The annual design competition fosters awareness and apprecia- tion of paperboard packaging with the next generation of talent. Stu- dent teams identified a real prod- uct on the market that isn’t pack- aged in paperboard. Together, they designed a new sustainable pa- per-based solution. “These students are creative and savvy when it comes to the future of packaging design,” said Heidi Brock, AF&PA President and

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FIT's Tide entry was awarded first place.

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Cal Poly's Froot entry was awarded second place.

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