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STUDENT DESIGN 
COMPETITION

for good.

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10.17.25
AUSTIN PEAY
STATE UNIVERSITY

not your average competition

We've served non-profits in an around Kentucky for 8 years.

Join us for a one-day design competition where students work in teams to create solutions they present later that day to a panel of professional judges. This event puts students front and center in a real-world time crunch while providing service-design for the region.

What Our Student Participants Say

"A great addition to my resume, this competition showed me what it is really like to collaborate and develop one vision with a group of very different designers under time constraints."

past clients

2025

TBD

2024

Upper Cumberland Child Advocacy Center

Cookeville, TN

2023

Sisters Road to Freedom

Lexington, KY

2022

A Place to Sleep

Shelbyville, KY

2021

BLOOM

Bowling Green, KY

2020

Get Out the Vote

2019

Ashland Terrace

Lexington, KY

2018

Kentucky Art Education Association

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the ringleaders

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Co-Producer

Shannon McCarthy

Associate Professor of Graphic Design

Eastern Kentucky University

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Co-Producer

Natalie Tyree

Associate Professor of Graphic Design

Western Kentucky University

Behind the Scenes:

Kimberly Mitchell, Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee

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