Announcement
- First-Ever Marine Energy Collegiate Competition Engaged 100+ Students Across Diverse Disciplines
- Energy Department Announces 2020 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition Winning Teams
- DOE Announces the 2022 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition Contenders
- Website: Marine Energy Collegiate Competition: Powering the Blue Economy.
Selection Date
- Fiscal Year 2020: 07/23/2020
- Fiscal Year 2021: To be determined
Prize Objective
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) hosts a challenge for university students to advance one of the most up-and-coming industries: marine energy. This competition is designed to challenge interdisciplinary teams of both undergraduate and graduate students to offer unique solutions to the burgeoning marine energy industry that can play a vital role in powering the blue economy.
Description
For the competition, teams of students will:
- Develop a market-research-supported business plan, which will include key aspects of their design of a system that could be commercialized to address power needs for a chosen sector of the blue economy
- Pitch their plan to a panel of judges and hypothetical investors
- Have the option to build and test a device to achieve energy production
- Engage with their community through outreach and educational activities.
EERE Selections
- DOE Announces the 2022 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition Contenders
- Energy Department Announces 2020 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition Winning Teams
Funding Awardees
- 2020
- Overall Winner: University of Hawaii
- Second Place Winner: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Third Place Winner: Tie: Columbia University with Virginia Tech and Ana G. Mendez, Gurabo
- Individual category winners included the following:
- Rising Star Award: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
- Moonshot Award: College of the Florida Keys
- Best Plan: Columbia University with Virginia Tech
- Best Pitch: University of Hawaii
- Best Poster: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
- 2021
- To be determined.