Cal Poly Earns High Honors in Phoenix Challenge

The team from California Polytechnic State University was named the overall winner.

The Waukesha County Technical College team won for research and concept.

The Central Piedmont Community College team won for execution.

On Saturday, March 5, the judges of the ninth annual Phoenix Challenge College Competition were once again overwhelmed with a top-notch performance by the college teams. Each team showcased its problem-solving skills and knowledge of graphic arts and flexography, presenting their months-long projects in professional business presentations to a scrutinizing judging panel comprised of today's industry leaders.

The competition requires students to develop, create and present a complete solution with a roadmap of research, design and printed/converted execution to solve a viable business-centric problem. The projects take form over an entire college semester and allow each student team to apply its business acumen, analysis, design creativity and flexography knowledge. It comes to a conclusion when each team presents its project during an all-day presentation and competition event.

Winners are honored the next day and presented with trophies and scholarships to aid in further pursuing a future in flexography.

This year's winners are:

Overall Winners – California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)
Colleen Twomey (instructor), Leanne Morris, Aislinn Bryan, Natalie Jones, Lindsay Mitchell, Isabella Baldwin, Hannah Girogi, Reina Stephenson and Nicholas Azevedo

Research & Concept – Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC) 
Emma Roser, Cassandra Ewert, Brenda Rosman, Jenna Parr, Keara Wingert, Genesis Lopez, Jake Paniagua, James Mayenshein, Joe Till and Nathan Miller

Execution – Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) 
Cheyenne Beaty, Avery Speight, Mike Stornaiuolo, Brian Gibbs and Amber Dobbins

Source: Phoenix Challenge Foundation.