BIOMIMICRY YOUTH DESIGN CHALLENGE
Announcing the 2019 Winners!
From a beehive and Grama grass-inspired porous surface that drains, captures, and partially filters excess water in flood-prone areas, to a Javan cucumber seed-inspired tidal kite that generates electricity, learn how the winners of the 2019 Youth Design Challenge looked to nature to create solutions to climate change.
OUR PROGRAMS
Explore nature’s solutions and the ideas they’ve inspired with this powerful, free online tool.
Teach STEM in a whole new way with a biomimicry challenge tailored for
Learn biomimicry while creating real solutions to climate change. Win prizes and the chance to join the Biomimicry Launchpad!
Get support to bring your nature-inspired design to market and a chance to win the $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize®.
OUR IMPACT
Designing a bright future
A design team from Mexico transforms a biomimicry challenge win into a thriving new interdisciplinary consultancy.
BIOMIMICRY AND DESIGN EXPEDITION 2019
Ready for a summer adventure?
Explore ten different ecosystems in Mexico’s beautiful Veracruz State as you learn to see nature differently and work your way through the biomimicry methodology to solve a design challenge.
Register by May 18th and save 14%!
“When we look at what is truly sustainable, the only real model that has worked over long periods of time is the natural world.”
Janine Benyus / Co-founder, The Biomimicry Institute
Film by Tree Media
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