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2021 LEsolutions Awards Registration is closed, please check back for 2022 registration.
Criteria
Any project designed and/or built within the last 5-years can be submitted for review. Projects are rated by individual jury members on a numeric scale of 1-10 based on the following criteria:
- School & Community Research and/or Engagement
- Educational Environment Design
- Physical Environment Design
- Planning Process and Project Results
- Sustainability and Wellness
Each project has the potential of scoring 50 points.
Submittal Process
All projects must have been completed after January 1, 2016.
- Online registration and identification of the following must be done prior to sending the application materials.
- Identify category of LEsolutions
- Project of Distinction – These awards recognize projects that positively impact the learning in a community.
- New Learning Environment – Innovative interior learning environments that address and support teaching and learning.
- Post-Secondary Educational – Innovative learning environments for post-secondary education.
- Renovation/Major Addition – This recognizes a renovation and/or addition project that transforms a physical space from a previous era of educational delivery to a learning environment for current instruction.
- Small/Special Project – This is awarded to a specialized space such as: outdoor space, kitchen, addition, media center, gymnasium, community room, etc.
- Exceptional Planning – This award recognizes a comprehensive and intensive planning process that doesn't necessarily result in an exceptional design solution.
- Identify project (name, location, district, configuration, etc.)
- Identify key firms / individuals of the process
- Project Dossier. To address the criteria and illustrate the successful story of your project, please assemble a PDF document of no more than 30-pages in length and no larger than 15 MB. Include as many photographs and/or images as necessary to illustrate and describe the process and overall project. Please avoid solicitation of any particular brand or firm involved in the project. Please use a minimum 10 or 12 point font and more graphic depictions and illustrations are encouraged. Paper size shall be 8 ½” x 11”; either portrait or landscape orientation.
The dossier should include the following sections:
- Executive Summary—describe the overall goals and outcomes of the project
- Focus on each category in the written summary
- Scope of Work and Budget
- School & Community Research and/or Engagement (10 points)
- Describe the Community
- Identify stakeholders
- Name challenges
- Describe available assets
- Describe value of process and project to community at large
- Educational Environment Design (10 points)
- Explain the educational vision and goals of the school
- Depict & illustrate how the designed environment supports the curriculum
- Depict & illustrate how the designed environment supports a variety of learning & teaching styles
- Depict & illustrate how the environment is adaptable and flexible
- Physical Environment Design (10 points)
- Depict & illustrate the site plan
- Depict & illustrate the physical attributes of the environment
- Depict & illustrate how the facility fits within the larger context of the community
- Describe & illustrate how the project inspires and motivates
- Results of the Process & Project (10 points)
- Describe & illustrate how the project achieves educational goals and objectives
- Describe & illustrate how the project achieves school district goals
- Describe & illustrate how the project achieves community goals
- Describe & illustrate any unintended results and achievements of the process & project
- Sustainability and Wellness (10 points)
- Describe & illustrate the energy-efficiency within the solution
- Describe & illustrate durable and green materials relating to maintenance
- Describe & illustrate the healthy environmental aspects
- Dossier Specifications
- All dossier files should be in PDF format and not to exceed 15 MG. Files exceeding the 15 MG will not be submitted to the jury
- Please insert electronic tabs for each section of the dossier so jurors can easily navigate through the information
- Either portrait or landscape layout can be used. Please consider that many jurors will review the material in electronic format
- Confidential Data Sheet; email with project dossier.
- Photo Release Form. Please complete, sign, and include the photo release form in the submittal transmission. One release per project.
- Optional Materials—not necessarily included in the dossier. All should in electronic format and labeled by the project name and description of file; for example, Meadowlark El Front Entrance, Meadowlark El Ed Spec, Meadowlark El PoR.
- Educational Brief and/or Educational Visioning documents
- Program of Requirements
- Design Guidelines