• The Lexus Eco Challenge is a nationwide competition that is sponsored by Lexus and Scholastic.

• A team of students led by a teacher/advisor can enter in 1 of 3 categories.  The three categories are air and climate, water, and land.

• The students develop an action plan.  The action plan is broken down into four parts.

        1.      What’s the environmental issue?

        2.      What is our plan of action?

        3.      How did we implement our ideas: our plan in action?

        4.      What are the results of our plan in action.

   

• On December 12th, we will send in our action plan, our collected data, and supporting documents (pictures, newspaper articles, webpage, etc. . .).

• A panel of judges will grade what we submit and will select a winner in each category.

• The prizes are as follows: Sixteen prize winning teams consisting of two middle school teams in each of four Lexus market regions-Eastern, Southern, Central, and Western as shown on the attached map (the "Four Lexus Market Regions") AND two high school teams in each of the Four Lexus Market Regions will each receive a $10,000 prize. The $10,000 prize is to be distributed as follows: $1,000 grant awarded directly to the Teacher Advisor for to be used toward purchasing school-related supplies and/or supporting educational programs/school clubs or initiatives, $7,000 to be evenly distributed among the Team members in the form of checks made payable to the parent or legal guardian of each Student who was part of the winning Team, and $2,000 to the winning team's school. The sixteen winning Teams will also be invited to compete in the Final Challenge

• From the final challenge Two Grand Prize winning Teams, consisting of one middle school Team AND one high school Team, will each receive $50,000. The $50,000 prize is to be distributed as follows: $10,000 to the winning team's school, $5,000 grant awarded directly to the Teacher Advisor for to be used toward purchasing school-related supplies and/or supporting educational programs/school clubs or initiatives, and $35,000 in scholarships to be evenly distributed among all the Students who were part of the winning Team.

(Information taken from LEXUS ECO CHALLENGE OFFICIAL RULES)