The finals of the competition will be held within the greater Houston area as a festival. Each of the winning teams from Phase II will receive monetary stipends of $2,000 to prepare the presentation and travel to Texas A&M University. Teams may elect to secure additional funding from their own sources.
The points from Phase II (report) and Phase III (presentation) will be averaged to determine the final score. The prizes will be given according to the criterion in Table 1.
Table 1: Prizes for the competition winners.
In addition, the winner of the disappearing roads competition will be assisted in the creation of an industry/government Joint Venture to fund a prototype disappearing road at the Texas A&M Pecos Research & Testing Center (http://tamusystem.tamu.edu/systemwide/05/12/briefs/tti.html) located in West Texas. There the disappearing road will be compared to commercially available means of transport road surfaces over sensitive terrain in a desert ecosystem. The outcome of a successful JV prototype test would be available by GPRI for commercialization, with members of the project to share in benefits from that effort. |