The Schooldesigner.com is proud to announce our second annual Design Collabetition focused on showcasing unique Design features from K-12 schools around the world! New this year: Submit your Higher Education projects to be featured in Collegedesigner.com.

This unique competition allows you to submit those Designer Elements that are truly unique and help to create a wonderful learning environment.

Collabetition
Joel Sims, AIA, founder of Schooldesigner.com, likes to refer to this event as a “Collabetition” - a cross between collaboration and competition - with the ultimate goal of elevating the quality of school design around the world.

What better way to do this than to recognize and promote only the very best school designs? In doing so, designers find inspiration from each other´s work, and the term “Winner” is redefined, referring not just to an individual firm, but to everyone involved in the creation of our schools.

Awards
Overall awards for best Designer Elements will be given for k-12 schools and higher education facilities. In addition, special recognition will be given to outstanding entries in the following sub-categories:

Innovative Classroom
Green Piece
Fitness

Recognition
Winning entries will be featured in a future Schooldesigner Newsletter, which goes to over 30,000 school educators, administrators, and design professionals across the world each month. In addition, all winning entrants will receive:

International recognition on Schooldesigner.com or Collegedesigner.com.
Links from Schooldesigner.com or Collegedesigner.com to your own site.

Jury
This year´s judging process will be done on-line. Teachers, administrators, school board members, parents, design professionals and anyone else that cares about quality educational facilities is encouraged to sign up as a judge.

Eligibility
Since Schooldesigner focuses on quality, we love to highlight superior examples of today´s educational design – work that promotes further innovation and excellence in the field. Projects may be any K-12 school as well as early childhood (Pre-K) schools and vocational and technical institutes. Both public and private schools from anywhere in the world qualify.

Please note: institutes of higher education qualify for this competition and will be showcased on collegedesigner.com. Entries may be submitted by anyone involved with schools. This includes:

school administrators
board members
concerned taxpayers
teachers
students
architects
engineers
contractors
specialty consultants
manufacturers (see page 5 for restrictions)
Questions about submissions?
E-mail: info@schooldesigner.com
Phone: 717.735.1985