Competitions & Awards

Challenge your knowledge, make new friendships, and have fun with IFT Student Association (IFTSA) product development and research competitions. Get experience developing new products, present your research, and show off your food science knowledge. Don’t miss out!

2020–2021 Competition Guidelines

Looking for information on this year’s competitions? Updated guidelines for all competitions are now available each competition’s detail page.

Curious about what a winning presentation looks like?

We’ve shared presentations of the winning submissions from 2019–2020 for the the competitions listed below. Check them out as you are working on your submission for this year.

Awards

Chapter of the Year

Excellence in Leadership Award
Submissions are now open for this competition.

College Bowl

College Bowl
Sponsored by Nestle Purina
Submissions for College Bowl are now closed.

Product Development Competitions

IFTSA & Mars Product Development Competition
Sponsored by Mars Wrigley Confectionery
Submissions for this competition are now closed.

Developing Solutions for Developing Countries Competition
Sponsored by Feeding Tomorrow
The submission deadline for this competition has been extended to February 15, 2021.

Smart Snacks for Kids
Submissions for this competition are now closed.

Which Product Development Competition is Right for You?

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Research Competitions

Submissions are now open for IFTSA research competitions.

Graduate Research Video Competition
Sponsored by Campden BRI

Undergraduate Research Competition

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Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

How does #climatechange impact the #sustainability of #aquaculture production? @GSA_Seafood Comprehensive shares the findings of a comprehensive review exploring positives and negatives and sustainability implications. https://t.co/qFQt1eK11F

Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

Do you know the full history of table sugar? This popular ingredient was just sweet until the cravings kicked in. #IFTSA member Hafida Mazoud explains the prehistoric path of this sweet staple. https://t.co/7e42iuo9xb

IFT - Institute of Food Technologists

Sugar’s sweetness has a tumultuous past. The baking and cooking staple, beloved all over the globe, has not been without controversy in politics and health. Learn more about table sugar’s journey from dates and honey to the cup you borrow from your neighbor from IFTSA member Hafida Mazoud on the Science Meets Food blog. https://hubs.la/H0Y4XVK0 #IFTSA

IFT - Institute of Food Technologists

The landscape of mathematical model-based understanding of microbial food safety is wide and deep, covering interdisciplinary fields of food science, microbiology, physics, and engineering. With rapidly growing interest in such approaches that increasingly include more fundamental mechanisms of microbial processes, there is a need to build a general framework that steers this evolutionary process by synthesizing literature spread over many disciplines. Scientists proposed a four-level framework that will drive novel research and educational approaches. Read more on this study in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety: https://hubs.la/H0Y3tps0 #IFTJournals

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