SCARCE Awards Sustainable Design Challenge Top Prizes

ELMHURST, IL – The DuPage County Stormwater Management Committee recently held an awards ceremony to honor the top groups from this year’s 12th annual Sustainable Design Challenge. The top awards went to students from York Community High School in Elmhurst and Glenbard East High School in Lombard.

“Members of the DuPage County Board and I were very impressed by the hard work put forth by all of the students at this year’s Sustainable Design Challenge,” DuPage County Stormwater Management Committee Chairman Jim Zay said in a release. “The groups we recognized today, especially, went above and beyond with their designs.”

According to the county, the challenge is sponsored by DuPage County Stormwater Management, and SCARCE coordinates the annual event, which encourages students to construct building and landscape models using environmental and water-friendly design practices. Local professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields served as judges during the event.

The winning groups were:

• Cate Ayers and Siva Sreedhar from York Community High School, for Overall LEED Design;
• Annalise Soldano, Franchesca Soldano, Mollie Grasse and Bridget Tully from York Community High School, for Best Stormwater Design; and
• Emily Greetis and Lina Gebhardt from Glenbard East High School, for Best Energy Efficiency Design.

“All participants involved this year had fantastic building designs. It is very inspiring to have such bright young minds in DuPage County,” added Zay.

Photos provided by DuPage County.