The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Code for America, and the Georgia Center of Innovation for Energy Technology have launched the Sustainable Communities Web Challenge, which will award a total of up to $10,000 across all winning participants. The purpose of this challenge is to customize our interactive community starter pages for a community of interest. These pages integrate tools that show the relationships between industries and the environment and local economy with an eye toward informing community decisions around sustainability. Sustainable communities promote health and well-being, such as through materials reuse and recycling, and prevention of environmental releases, while also being economically robust.
The challenge is open to anyone who is interested in creating these community pages, including students from high school through graduate school, community representatives, coders and others. An adult is required to register and oversee participation of any minors.
To start, the challenge asks participants to choose a location of interest – ranging from a local community to multiple states. They can then join a community team or create a new team for their community and use our starter pages to start their community page. To create a competitive challenge entry they may further develop, customize, and improve our existing web tools that integrate EPA models and data, or integrate data, tools or imagery from other sources of their choosing relevant to issues in their community. Participants will compete for $10,000 in awards. The challenge will culminate in a full-day showcase event and award presentation on October 2, 2021.
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