COMPETITION GUIDELINES - Food Bank of Delaware
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COMPETITION GUIDELINES
Want to engage members of your organization through teamwork, camaraderie, and creativity while working to make a difference in the community? Sign up for CANgineering! What is CANgineering? CANgineering is a food drive structure building competition. It is a creative way to collect donations to benefit food- insecure Delawareans, while encouraging spirited competition amongst local organizations. Teams sign up, hold a food drive and use the items they have collected to create sculptures.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
CANgineering supports the year-round hunger relief efforts of the Food Bank
of Delaware. With more than 114,000 Delawareans relying on the services of
the Food Bank each year, community support is more important than ever.
After the holiday season, donations are normally down during the spring and
summer months. Unfortunately, hunger never takes a break. In an effort to
help stock the shelves and ensure that hungry Delawareans have access to
healthy foods, the Food Bank of Delaware encourages your organization’s
participation in the eighth annual CANgineering competition.
ORGANIZE YOUR TEAM
REGISTER YOUR TEAM
PICK A THEME/
DESIGN YOUR STRUCTURE
PROMOTE AND HOLD
YOUR FOOD DRIVE
BUILD YOUR STRUCTURE
PRESENT YOUR STRUCTURE
TO THE JUDGES
TIMELINE OF
EV ENTS
APRIL 29
REGISTRATION
DEADLINE
Register your team by visiting
www.fbd.org/cangineering
MAY 2-6
PICK UP
COLLECTION BOXES
Pick up your collection boxes at
the Food Bank in Newark or Milford!
MAY 16
STRUCTURE BUILDING
KICK OFF
Start building your structure!
JUNE 10
BUILDING
DEADLINE
Last day to build your structures!
JUNE 13-15
ON-SITE JUDGING DAYS
Our panel of judges will visit to check
out your finished structure!
CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
TIMELINE OF
EV ENTS CONTINU ED
JUNE 20-24
ONLINE JUDGING
The public will vote for their
favorite structures on
Facebook!
JUNE 16-29
DONATION PICK UP OR
DELIVERY TO FBD
Make arrangements to have your
food donation picked up or dropped
off to the Food Bank.
JUNE 30
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
GET STARTED
1. Organize your team 4. Promote and hold your food drive
Find out who is interested and form a Each organization can choose the
committee. Send e-invites and email duration of their food drive. If your
announcements. Be sure to talk up the structure design requires a large number
competition with co-workers. of food items, you may want to start
Engage company management or your food drive early. We encourage
governing boards in helping to promote organizations to start their food drives
participation among before the May 16 competition kick-off.
employees/associates. When promoting your food drive, keep
in mind the types of food items needed
2. Register your CANgineering team for your structure.
Each team must register with the Food Please note that the FBD cannot accept
Bank of Delaware by Friday, April 29, donations of candy and soda products
2022. To register, visit: or glass containers.
www.fbd.org/cangineering and click To help spark some ideas for structure
the “register here” link. types, here are our most-needed items:
Collection containers will be available Peanut butter
for pick up the week of May 2-6. For Canned vegetables
specific times and directions, please visit Canned soups
www.fbd.org/cangineering. Canned meats like tuna and
chicken
3. Pick a theme and design a structure Canned fruits
It is recommended that you identify the Canned dinners (spaghetti and
types of food products needed for your meatballs, ravioli, etc.)
structure before promoting your food
drive. 5. Build your structure
Consider the award categories when Starting on May 16 or anytime after
designing your structure: Does your when you have collected enough food
structure utilize food labels in a creative supplies, companies can begin building
way? Do you want to focus on using their structures. The final structure
FBD’s most-needed items to maximize building deadline is June 10.
your impact? Would you like to make In building the structures, please refer to
your structure very large or very heavy the guidelines, rules and requirements
to be in the running for the most pounds listed below.
collected award?
Be sure to follow the guidelines outlined Continued on page 7...
below, including what materials and
food products are and are not
permitted.
Use your imagination! Check out the
attached photos for inspiration.
6. Present your structure to FBD judges & the 7. Winners will be announced June 27.
People’s Choice voters Awards will be available in the following
On June 13-15, a panel of judges will categories:
evaluate the structures on-site. You will Best in show
be contacted beforehand to arrange a Structurally Sound (the build with the
date and time. most structural integrity i.e. not
After each structure is judged, FBD braced on a wall, free standing)
trucks will be available to pick up your Best use of labels (for example,
donated product to be weighed for the structures that have specific color
Largest Food Drive Donation category scheme based on food labels)
OR you can drop off at the Food Bank Most-Needed Items (structures
any time before June 20. Please have utilizing the largest variety of most-
volunteers available to help with needed items)
loading/unloading. Most Creative
On June 20, photos of the structures will Largest food drive donation (to be
be posted to the FBD’s Facebook page determined once all food items
to be voted on as part of the People’s have been returned to the Food
Choice. Voting will end June 24 at Bank for weighing)
noon. People’s Choice (as the result of the
social media voting campaign)
Honorable Mention
SOME PAST STRUCTURES
REMINDERS
The Food Bank of Delaware will coordinate Each team’s members will be responsible
the competition including: recruiting for:
companies to participate, recruiting Developing the concept for their
judges, facilitating the judging, marketing structures
and promotion of CANgineering Collecting the needed canned goods
and picking up the cans when the Building their structures in their sites
competition has been completed. Breakdown and boxing up of the
Assistance with the promotion of the structures at the end of the competition
competition by competitors is welcomed, for the Food Bank to load onto their
but not required. trucks.
For safety purposes, sculptures should fit
Teams from within each company will within a ground area of 10ft x 10ft and
conduct internal food drives collecting should be no more than 10 feet in
cans/boxes of food which will then be used height.
to build structures of their choice. Any items
collected and not used in the building Structures MUST be structurally self-
structure can be donated separately to supporting. Please do not wrap your
FBD and added to the subcategory structure in cling wrap or packing tape.
of number of pounds collected. Sculptures should be made primarily of
food products.
It will be up to each company/school/
organization to determine the theme for The following materials & foods are NOT
the structure to be built. The structure permitted in building the structure:
theme will determine the amount and type Glass (including glass food packaging)
of canned goods to be collected based on Open or exposed food items
size and color. Companies may form Products without labeling (The FBD
several teams internally, with one cannot use any products that do not
structure selected to be part of the have labels.)
CANgineering competition and judging. Candy and soda products (The FBD
does not accept any types of candy or
CANgineering structures will be built at soda products, as they do not meet the
each company/school/organization’s nutritional requirements set forth by our
location. Ideally, structures will be displayed nutrition team and our overall mission).
in the headquarters’ lobby, but branches Permanent adhesives
and satellite locations may also be used. Anything additional that will damage
the integrity of the donated product
The following non-food materials ARE permitted in building the structure, but should not
damage the product in any way:
Clear tape
Velcro
Double-faced tape
High-tension rubber bands
Nylon string
Wire
The following non-food materials ARE permitted in building the structure, but are limited to
one-quarter inch thick to serve as leveling materials and not load bearing:
Foam-core
Cardboard
Masonite
Plywood
Plexiglass
Cardboard tubes
You are encouraged to use a variety of items for your structure, but structures requiring the
same item throughout the design will still be considered in the challenge.
Questions? Please contact Sue DeNardo, Community Development Manager at
sdenardo@fbd.org or (302) 292-1305 ext 250.
www.fbd.org/cangineering
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