Clean River Design Challenge

WORKING TOWARDS A CLEANER TOMORROW FOR OUR RIVER.

Despite the significant evolution in the health of the South Platte, the reality of trash and other forms of pollution continue to be an ongoing challenge to the River. In response to this reality and thanks to a grant from the Rose Community Foundation’s “Innovate for Good” initiative, The Greenway Foundation (TGF), in collaboration with Metropolitan State University of Denver’s One World One Water (OWOW) Center, created the Clean River Design Challenge. Students at MSU are designing trash removal devices that can be placed on Cherry Creek in Downtown Denver where the effectiveness of the device can be observed. This competition will both raise awareness of, and strive towards the development of solutions to this source of pollution in the South Platte River and its tributaries.
On December 4, 2015, ten teams presented their designs at to a panel of expert judges from TGF, TWC, City and County of Denver, OWOW the Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Rose Community Foundation.
Based on quality of design and likelihood of its potential success, five teams were chosen to receive funds to create their device. These top competitors will then test their devices them on the Cherry Creek in Confluence Park in April in conjunction with TGF’s Spring RiverSweep.

Congratulations to our top five teams!
Cain Research Collective
Luke Lahnert, Industrial Design
Audrey CramerIndustrial Design

Roadrunners
Alexi Drozd, MET
Elliot Newman, MET
Brian Tietze, MET
Will Montoya, MET
Gabriella Escalante, MET

TM^TM
Mara Maxwell, Industrial Design
Taylor DiTallo, Industrial Design

UP Creek
Charles Robbins, Industrial Design
Stewart Guethlein, Industrial Design

WASSUP with the Cherry Creek; Taking Out the Trash
Nathan Yudnich, Civil Engineering Tech/One World One Water

Thank you to all of our competitors!

BVDK
Bailey Van Etten, Industrial Design
Daniel Kim, Industrial Design

Confluence
Ethan Miller, Industrial Design
Nate Durant, Industrial Design

Englewood School Team

Splish Splash
Brice Sullivan, Industrial Design
Michael Jaslowski, Industrial Design

Unsully The Platte
Jeff Kortman, Industrial Design
Corey Baughman, Industrial Design

Water Under the Bridge
Marc Hudson, Industrial Design
Tina Sandoval, Industrial Design

Thank you Judges for donating an afternoon!
Jon Bridges, Littleton Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant, Greenway Foundation Board
Devon Buckles, The Water Connection
Jon Novick, Dept. of Environmental Health, City and County of Denver
Milroy “Roy” Alexander, Rose Community Foundation

The Greenway Foundation is looking for sponsors for the 2016 Clean River Design Challenge. Please contact autumn@greenwayfoundation.org for more information.

Please contact autumn@greenwayfoundation.org if you are interested in participating in 2016!
Download the Rules and Regulations
Download the Round I Judging Sheet