Your Voice, Your Action Infrastructure Contest
Unfortunately, many of our nation’s roads do not adequately incorporate infrastructure design elements that are conducive to the safe travel of all road users. (USDOT)
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Raise Your Voice, Take Action + Win $1500
The contest aims to give young people a voice by hearing their opinions on what infrastructure improvements are needed in their neighborhoods to support safe walking, cycling, and equitable use of street spaces for all road users.
It will be their space to assess the state of the local infrastructure, propose, design alternatives, and justify how their proposal will lead to a more secure, environmentally friendly transportation system for all road users
Read the press release here!
This project is estimated to take 2-hours to complete.
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HOW DOES IT WORK?
You need to sign up as an official participant of the Your Voice, Your Action Real-World Infrastructure Contest
You will receive confirmation of your successful application and instructions to create a student profile.
Complete Activity 1: Sign-up for the master class training here. You will receive a $25 stipend.
Complete Activity 2: Identify a problem within your community that affects pedestrian safety and share your idea through a creative expression.
Submit your Activity #1 and #2 in the contest final report.
BONUS: Transform your creative expression into a Computer-aided design (CAD) submittal.