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P3’s National Student Design Expo Experience

The P3 Expo Experience

Each year our P3 student teams exhibit their research showcasing, discussing and demonstrating their projects funded under their EPA P3 grant funding. Teams can connect with experts in government agencies, non-profit organizations and businesses to showcase their achievements. In connecting with these experts, student teams have the opportunity to expand their research projects with increased funding or commercialization plus gain event benefits including public education and participation, research review, and scientific networking opportunities.

The 2024 National Student Design (NSDE) Expo

EPA's P3 19th Annual Phase I Teams will showcase their designs at the NSDE in conjunction with the TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo. 

Date and Time

Monday, June 17 - Tuesday, June 18, 2024
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET

Location

Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center
201 Waterfront Street
National Harbor, MD 20745
United States
 

About The National Design Expo

Our previous P3 student teams have traveled across the country to attend the student design expo. Historically, teams have exhibited at the National Mall in Washington D.C., at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Boston, Massachusetts, in Oronoco Bay Park in Alexandria, Virginia and most recently in partnership with Tech Connect at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

To learn more about the P3 student teams and their projects visit the P3 Expo Photo Gallery!

P3 supports the education and preparation of the next generation to continue building our nation’s capacity to create and innovate. In attending the Expo, many teams have the potential to access new jobs and build small businesses and non-profits. 

Every year, we are amazed and inspired by every student who comes to showcase their exciting and innovative projects at the P3 expo.  We are excited to see new and creative ideas as our program moves forward! 

Celebrating P3’s 20th Year and the Return of the In-person National Student Design Expo
 

Here's a glimpse of the evolution of the P3 Expo!
 

  • Cornell University, AguaClara - Fluoride Removal Reactor

  • University of Delaware - Eco-Leather and Fashion

  • Two Auburn students looking intensely at their Moving-Bed Bioreactor

    Auburn University - Moving-Bed Bioreactor

  • Six Wayne State people smiling and posing with their tanks of algae water in front

    Wayne State University - Algal-Biofilm Reclamation

  • Group photo of all teams from a P3 expo

    2019 P3 Expo Group Photo of All Teams

  • A crowd of people visiting different P3 posters and projects

    2019 P3 Expo Exhibit Hall

  • Closeup of the UCDavis Greywater project: a plastic cup sitting in a popsicle stick structure and connected with straws to cylinders

    University of California, Davis - Greywater Reuse

  • Sideview of two Mississippi State University students sitting in front of their P3 project and talking to people outside of the image

    Mississippi State University - Algal Fuels

  • Seven smiling New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty and students posing in front of their project for removing PFOS

    New Jersey Institute of Technology - PFOS Removal

  • 6 Princeton University students assembling their project for the P3 Expo

    Princeton University - Power in a Box

  • Sideview of two SMU students talking about their project and holding up capped test tubes with colored water

    Southern Methodist University - Contaminant Removal in Drinking Water

  • Five University of Maryland, Baltimore County students posing in front of their P3 project

    University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Sustainable Nutrient Removal from Urine

  • Two University of Rhode Island students presenting a model of their sustainable sanitation strategies project to what appears to be a father and daughter

    University of Rhode Island - Sustainable Sanitation Strategies

  • University of Washington student standing outside and pointing to some wood pallets while standing next to two small and mid-size conifer trees in blue tubs

    University of Washington - Fog Collection Systems in the Slums of Peru

  • Four University of Washington students presenting their Fog Collection System to people outside of the image

    University of Washington - Fog Collection Systems in the Slums of Peru

  • Four Vanderbilt students smiling and posing in front of their solar powered water deionization project

    Vanderbilt University - Solar Powered Deionization of Water

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Last updated on April 2, 2025
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