Ever wonder what happens to your electronic waste? That old computer or cell phone you discarded? Do you want new electronics in 10 to 20 years? If so, here is your chance to do something about it by creating innovative new uses for existing electronic waste, as well as its future prevention.

The Second International E-Waste Design Competition is open to anyone 18 years or older who is currently attending college, or who graduated from college since May 2007. Teamwork across disciplines, backgrounds and ages is encouraged.

DEFINITION OF "ELECTRONIC WASTE": For the purposes of this contest, electronic waste (e-waste) includes the following items: computers (desktops and laptops), scanners, printers, cell phones, PDAs, optical drives, televisions, DVD/VCR players, MP3 players, computer monitors, video game consoles, computer peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables), zip drives, and fax machines.

E-Waste Prevention Category
Electronic components focusing on the elimination or reduction of e-waste through life-cycle considerations. An entry in the E-waste Prevention category must focus on decreasing the amount of e-waste generation. The entries in this category should focus on new products or services.

E-Waste Reuse Category
Registration is free. Participants can register as individuals or as teams as long as the team has no more than 5 members. Entrants need to register for the competition between January 4 and April 1, 2011. Competition registration closes at 4:59pm Central Time on April 1, 2011.

The Jury will award one finalist from each of the two categories a Platinum Award of 5,000 USD, a Gold Award of 3,000 USD, and a Silver Award of 1,000 USD, for a total of six monetary awards.