Nunez Design Challenge Seeks Prototypes To Clean The Mississippi River

  • The SkillShop at Nunez will be available to participants in Nunez Community College’s Marine Debris Removal Challenge design contest this spring and summer. Teams of two will receive a supply budget and access to tools to build a prototype. Pictured, Construction Technology Program Chair Adam Bourne uses a sander in the SkillShop.
    The SkillShop at Nunez will be available to participants in Nunez Community College’s Marine Debris Removal Challenge design contest this spring and summer. Teams of two will receive a supply budget and access to tools to build a prototype. Pictured, Construction Technology Program Chair Adam Bourne uses a sander in the SkillShop.

    Nunez Community College and Sea Grant are calling all designers, builders and visionaries to help clean the Mississippi River.

    The Marine Debris Removal Challenge design contest at Nunez tasks designers, paired in teams of two, with developing a prototype to clear post-storm debris from the river. From April 12 through June 28, teams will receive access to the Nunez SkillShop and a $660 supply budg…