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Take the mess out of ice cream on a stick
Challenge Type: food science
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$1,000
top 10
40
submissions
40
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Eating ice cream on a stick can be a messy experience. As the ice cream melts, it drips onto the hand of the person holding the stick. Nobody likes the resulting sticky mess when this happens, and we are seeking ways to create a mess-free, handheld ice cream-on-a-stick eating experience.

Deliverables

Please submit a solution for a packaging idea and design that could include a napkin, a bar wrapper or some different packaging supplement that could serve as an absorbent or moisture capture device for melted ice-cream. Be sure to include the following:

1) A written description of how your packaging idea works, and how it will result in a less sticky ice cream stick eating experience.

2) The materials you would use to create your idea

3) An artistic rendering (sketch, mockup, design, etc.) of your packaging idea to show its components and how it works.

    Submissions will be graded on the following criteria:
  • Meets Deliverables
  • Creativity
  • Clarity
Reward Tiers
5 Winners
will receive $150 each
5 Honorable Mentions
will receive $50 each
Leaderboard
$150.00 Elizabeth Frank University of Chicago
$150.00 David Doxey Brigham Young University
$150.00 Ian Fong Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
$150.00 Jun Shun Zhang SUNY at Stony Brook
$150.00 Shirley Jin Cornell University
$50.00 Rachel Johns Hopkins University
$50.00 Patrick Bankich Clarkson University
$50.00 Minqian Wang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
$50.00 Andry Xevandry University of Washington
$50.00 Wing Beaver North Carolina State University
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