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Select this category if your project examines the complex relationship between sustainability/ environmental justice/ social equity and business, including analysis of the ways businesses manage their operations, develop, produce, and market their products and services with regard to their impact on people and the planet.

Examples of past projects in this category:

• Research poster entitled “DDT Case Study: Montrose Chemical Corporation’s Unsustainable Decision”
• Research poster entitled “Fiji Water’s Carbon Confusion”
• Research poster entitled “Trader Joe’s Green Marketing and Sustainability”
• Research poster entitled “Fair Trade: A Path Toward Sustainability”

Select this category if your project explores ways that products, environments, or systems could be designed in new ways with the goal of solving a sustainability or social justice challenge. Projects in this category should present original design concepts and/or prototypes focused on sustainability solutions as opposed to analysis or critiques of existing products.  

Examples of past projects in this category:

• Fashion Show/Garment designs (using sustainable, vegetable dyed fabrics) entitled “Maggie Evans Designs”
• Poster and design 3-D prototype entitled “Keramos: 3-piece utensil set made from sustainable materials”
• Interior design concept poster entitled “The Power of Small: Designing Sustainable Housing for Migrant Families” 

Select this category if your project explores or demonstrates the ways in which technology or any discipline of engineering is or could be applied to address environmental and social justice challenges. 

Examples of past projects in this category:

• Research postered entitled “Open-Source Platform for Air Quality Monitoring”
• Prototype model entitled “Automated Aquaponics”
• Research postered entitled “Co-delivery of Natural Gas and Hydrogen: Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations and Experimental Study”
• Research poster entitled “Electric Airplanes? Is it really the future of flight?”

Select this category if your project explores findings from scientific research or field work related to ecosystems and/or interactions between the natural and man-made environment.    

Examples of past projects in this category:

• Research poster entitled “Coastal Wetlands as Nature Based-Solutions”
• Research poster entitled “Comparative Analysis of Organic Land Management vs. Conventional Practices:  Unveiling the Environmental, Economic, and Health Implications”
• Research poster entitled “Mexico’s Water Crisis: Environmental Report”
• Research poster entitled “Conserving the multiplicity of Biodiversity in Central America”

Select this category if your project focuses primarily on the ways in which public policy and/or education are being used to address environmental and social challenges, including issues related to environmental justice and social justice. This includes approaches to using various strategies to educate and mobilize people to adopt sustainable behaviors.  

Examples of past projects in this category:

• Research poster entitled “Analysis of the Green New Deal”
• Research poster entitled “The History and Ongoing Struggle of Indigenous Communities and National Parks”
• Research poster entitled “The Effects of Racialized Urban Planning on Environmental Health Hazards in Long Beach”
• Research poster entitled “Long Beach Climate Action Plan: The Future of Oil”
• Graphic design poster for hydration station awareness campaign entitled “Fresh, Filtered, and Free!”

Select this category if your project is a work of fine art or performing art that interprets or reflects sustainability or environmental justice themes, ideas or solutions. 

Examples of past projects in this category:

• Monotype print series entitled “Echoes of Joshua Tree: What Was, What Is, What Will”
• Spoken word poetry performance entitled “India and the Environment: What Happened to Us?”
• Mixed media sculpture entitled “Repurposed Trash Assemblage”
• Video and poster entitled “Sustainability in Student Filmmaking”