The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) has announced the winners of the FPA 2017 Student Flexible Design Challenge. This year’s first place winners were a team of students from University of Wisconsin – Stout. Two schools tied for second place, one was a student from Iowa State University, and the other, another team of students from University of Wisconsin – Stout. There was also an Honorable Mention awarded in this year’s competition to a student from Iowa State University.
The FPA’s annual Achievement Awards competition recognizes innovative flexible packaging from across its membership. The industry also believes it is important to encourage and recognize students who are working to become the next generation of packaging designers. For the 2017 competition, FPA received 39 concept outlines from some of the top Packaging Design Programs across the United States. From the concept outlines submitted, 13 of them were selected to continue to the development phase.