I'm sharing something a little different for today's TerraCycle Tuesday. Instead of highlighting a brigade, I'm spreading the word about TerraCycle's annual Eco-Product Design Contest, which will soon be accepting entries for 2012. Here's some info from TerraCycle: Elmer’s® Products, Inc. and TerraCycle® challenge students to use commonly discarded materials to create new products. Participants will design upcycled products using Elmer’s packaging and/or used classroom materials, and e-mail photos or drawings and descriptions of their design to TerraCycle. Entrants do not have to be a part of Elmer’s Glue Crew of TerraCycle’s Elmer’s Glue Crew Brigade® to participate. One Grand Prize winner will receive a TerraCycle and Elmer’s Prize Pack. He or she will also be featured on the TerraCycle website and Facebook page. Three runners up will receive TerraCycle and Elmer’s prize packs. Send your entries to contest@terracycle.com, and be sure to include a photo or drawing, with a 250 word or less description of your upcycled product in your e-mail. Also be sure to include contact information in your entry so we can contact you if you win! Entries will be judged on the creative use of commonly discarded materials, if the design itself is environmentally friendly, if the materials used in the design are environmentally friendly, and whether the design is deemed to be commercially viable. Entry Phase: March 1 - March 31, 2012 Finalists Announced: April 9, 2012 Public Voting: April 9 - April 20, 2012 Grand Prize Winner Announced: April 23, 2012 More info here! http://brsdgifted.blogspot.com/2012/02/terracycle-tuesday-eco-product-design.html