Urban Futures Competition

The world needs you to be leaders in creating our sustainable cities.

Now more than ever people are choosing to live in cities and this trend is rapidly increasing. Melbourne’s population is forecast to hit 5 million before 2030. This present challenges and opportunities for planning, designing and managing our cities.

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Prize details

1^st prize: Urban Futures Award and $300

2^nd prize: Urban Futures Award and $150

3^rd prize: Urban Futures Award and $100

Your task

Provide a photo or image to communicate an urban problem you have identified, and explain the problem and your ideas for a solution in 200-300 words.

How to enter

The competition is open to Year 10, 11 and 12 Victorian secondary school students only. Entries close midnight Sunday 26 August, 2012.

Submissions should be sent to : urbanfuturecomp@rmit.edu.au

The best entries will be short listed, with winners announced at the Urban Futures Awards ceremony at the RMIT University City Campus on:
Wednesday 5 September 2012, 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm.

Terms and conditions

1. Information on how to enter and the entry form are part of the terms and conditions of the competition.
2. Entrants must be currently studying year 10, 11 or 12 VCE or IB (in Victoria) in 2012.
3. Entry is open from 1 May 2012 and closes 12.00am midnight, 26 August 2012. Entry form and image must be emailed to urbanfuturescomp@rmit.edu.au
4. Photos or images and text must be your own work. Images must be submitted as a JPG (save/name file as your name). Text describing your entry must be entered on the entry form. The maximum size of the file emailed as the entry is not to exceed 1MB. Only one entry per person is permitted.
5. Entries will be judged by RMIT staff (or nominee).
6. This is a game of skill. Chance plays no part in the competition.
7. All category winners will be notified by email by 1 September 2012.
8. First prize and runners up category winners will be announced at the awards ceremony.
9. Prizes will be available for collection at the awards ceremony on Wednesday 5 September 2012. The total prize pool is $550. Unclaimed prizes will go into the prize pool for the 2013 competition.
10. By entering his competition, you grant permission for competition images and text to be used for marketing and promotional purposes by RMIT University.
11. RMIT University follows the privacy principles and your personal information will not be forwarded to another organization without your permission. RMIT’s privacy policy can be viewed at www.rmit.edu.au/privacy
12. Parent/guardian attendance at the awards ceremony is highly recommended.