Participants ranged from undergraduate to master’s level students, representing disciplines such as Packaging Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Food Science, Engineering, and Global Business Studies.
This year’s first-place winner was a team of students from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and the second-place winner was a team of students from the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly).
The World Packaging Organization (WPO) has launched an opportunity to students around the world to participate in a competition to redesign the trophy of the prestigious global packaging award, the WorldStar.