2010 Award Winners

Below are the results of the 2010 Design Ignites Change awards. Design Ignites Change offers awards in two categories; the Implementation Award offers grants for the real-world execution of promising community projects and the Idea Award is given to projects with a promising and innovative social-change concept. Follow the links below to visit the winning project pages; their applications are available to download on the left of this page.

Implementation Awards

The following student projects were awarded a financial grant to help fund the implementation of their projects:

» First Person American – $8,300
» I Need a Sidewalk – $4,700
» Two Wings – $6,000
» Initiative reCOVER: Disaster Recovery Housing Prototype – $6,000
» HAITI BRIDGE: I helped build it – $1,000

Idea Awards

The following student projects were given financial awards to recognize and honor their great ideas:

» Ben’s Book: Little Red Flying Hood – $1,000
» Teach, Learn and Earn – $500
» Enlightening Individuals – $500
» Floatfarm – $1,000
» ECODE project – $500
» Hydro-Urbanism: Re-Thinking the LA River – $500

Honorable Mentions

» Cease 4 Peace
» You Are Here

Learn more

» 2010 Cycle 2 Award Winners news story
» 2010 Cycle 1 Award Winners news story
» 2009 Award Winners Update news story