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2025 Student Design Challenge
The winners of the 2025 Student Design Challenge are live!
The Challenge tasked students to design a new paperboard packaging line for an original pet care company, PPA Pets.
Each year, the Paperboard Packaging Alliance (PPA) challenges students across North America in leading sustainable packaging design programs to show off their design skills, innovative capacity and savvy in meeting real-world customer needs and marketing scenarios.
Key Dates
Get Inspired by Past Entries & Winners
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Protection Prevention & Awareness for Pets
Rochester Institute of Technology
First Place
2025
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SPUDS Potatoes
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
First Place
2024
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Triangular Paperboard Lip Balm
University of Wisconsin, Stout
First Place
2023
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Tide
Fashion Institute of Technology
First Place
2022
Earn cash prizes and bragging rights
The top 3 finalist teams are invited and expected to present their designs at the Paperboard Packaging Council’s (PPC) 2025 Fall Meeting & Leadership Conference, taking place from November 5 to 7, 2025, in Vancouver, Canada.