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LIM College Announces Cotton Climate Challenge Winners

New York-based LIM College announced the winners of its Cotton Climate Challenge Competition, and the commemorative event, as one might guess, was held entirely online. The competition was held during LIM College’s first “Virtual Sustainability Expo” on April 27 and 28. The event featured students presenting concepts for sustainable cotton-based, fashion-related, and climate-positive businesses that would “reduce fashion’s negative environmental and social impacts and help reverse climate change,” LIM College said. Students who developed the top three concepts were awarded prize scholarships. The student award for first place, with a reward of $1,000, went to “The Three Farm,” a vertical indoor farm that allows for year-round cotton farming and reduces weather risks, by Alexa Geller, Maheen Nisar and Skylar Roa. The “Water Gauge” project came in second place, with an award of $750, which introduced water-saving crop sensors controllable via app, by Jillian Jackson; and third place, for $600, went to the “Eco Brush,” a recycled cotton cosmetic brush concept, by Cindy Demain, Leticia Hsieh and Natalie Misetic. LIM College president Elizabeth S. Marcuse said, “Even though we were not able to hold our Sustainability Expo on campus, as originally planned, we found an innovative way to provide students with real-life professional experience

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