First Annual Acer Incredible Green Contest Calls for Contestants

Taipei, June 4, 2012 – Acer Foundation today kicked off the first annual Acer Incredible Green Contest to promote better and greener living environment. The competition is open to students at all level worldwide to create innovative and sustainable solutions. Finalist teams will be selected to compete for Grand Prize of US$60,000 and provided with complementary trip to Taipei for COMPUTEX 2013.


“Acer Foundation is proud of being the organizer of The Incredible Green Contest to enhance awareness and understanding of caring for a greener environment, and we are excited to see innovative approaches to sustaining our environment” said Richard Lai, Director of Acer Foundation.

The deadline to register is October 31, 2012. From the pool of competing entries, Acer Foundation will select up to twelve finalists. Submitted entries will be evaluated by a panel of experts based on essential factors of earth friendliness, reality friendliness and innovation friendliness.

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Theme

2020 Future TechLife enabled by Green Innovation. Utilization of ICT Related Technologies to create environmental friendly solutions. Your concept can be directly or indirectly related to ICT technology.

Mission

Acer Incredible Green Contest encourages students at all level to create green-centric applications to generate innovative and sustainable solutions embracing energy saving, carbon reduction, ecological conversation, and other environmental issues. Most importantly is to increase awareness and understanding of caring for a green environment among general public.