Building a brighter future, one can at a time.

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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.

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What is CANgineering? CANgineering is a food drive structure building competition. It is a creative way to collect donations to

benefit Delaware’s hungry 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?

1. Organize Your Team

2. Register Your Team

3. Pick A Theme/Design Your Structure

4. Promote And Hold Your Food Drive

5. Build Your Structure

6. Present Your Structure To The Judges

(see page 5 for more details)

Who does it benefit?

CANgineering supports the year-round hunger relief efforts of the Food Bank of

Delaware. With more than 17,000 Delawareans relying on the services of the Food

Bank each week, 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 fourth annual

CANgineering competition.

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2 Team registration

deadline.

Register your team

http://www.fbd.org/cangineering

Friday

March

March

Collection barrels

will be

delivered

Monday

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March

April

April

Winners

Announced!

Monday

20 Friday Can Structure

Building deadline

April

23/24

25/26

Judging Days!

(exact schedule TBA)

Weds. & Thurs.

Timeline of Events

Mon & Tues.

Structure building

kick off!

April

27 Friday

People’s Choice

Online Judging

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Get Started 1. Organize your team

Find out who is interested; form a committee; send e-invites and email announcements;

talk the competition up with co-workers

Company management or governing boards can help motivate by setting a standard

for participation.

2. Register your CANgineering team

Each team must register with the FBD by Friday, March 2nd. A $100 company registration

fee will be required to cover costs related to transportation of collection barrels and

Donations.

To register, visit: www.fbd.org/cangineering and click the “register here” link.

3. Pick a theme and design a structure

It is recommended that you identify the types of food products you need for your struc-

ture before promoting your food drive.

Consider the award categories when designing your structure: Does your structure utilize

food labels in a creative way? Do you want to focus on using the FBD’s most needed

items to maximize your impact? Would you like to make your structure very large or very

heavy to be in the running for the most pounds collected award?

Be sure to follow the guidelines outlined below, including what materials and food

products are and are not permitted

Use your imagination! Check out the attached photos to gain inspiration.

4. Promote and hold your food drive

Each organization can choose the duration of their food drive. If your structure design

requires a large number of food items, you may want to start your food drive early. It is

encouraged that organizations start their food drives before the competition kick-off on

March 19th.

When promoting your food drive, keep in mind the types of food items needed for your

structure.

Please note that the FBD cannot accept donations of candy and soda products or glass

containers.

To help spark some ideas for structure types, here are our most-needed items:

Peanut butter

Canned corn

Canned soups

Canned tuna fish, chicken, salmon and vienna sausage

Canned fruits

Canned green beans

Canned peas

Canned dinners (spaghetti and meatballs, ravioli, etc.)

5. Build your structure

Companies can begin building their structures as soon as they have collected enough

food supplies. Companies are encouraged to start their building process as early as

March 19th but the final structure building deadline is Friday, April 20th. In building the structures, please refer to the guidelines, rules and requirements listed

below.

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6. Present your structure to FBD judges & the People’s Choice voters

On April 23rd and 24th, a panel of judges will evaluate the structures on-site.

After each structure is judged, FBD trucks will be available to pick up donated product

to be weighed for the Largest Food Drive Donation category, please have volunteers ready to help.

On April 25th and 26th, photos of the structures will be posted to the FBD’s Facebook

page to be voted on as part of the People’s Choice.

Winners will be announced on April 27th!

Awards will be available in the following categories: Best in show

Best use of labels (for example, structures that have specific color scheme based on

food labels)

Best use of Food Bank’s most-needed items

Best meal (encourages a variety of food components)

Most Creative

Largest food drive donation (to be determined once all food items have been returned to

the Food Bank for weighing)

People’s Choice (as the result of the social media voting campaign)

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The Nitty Gritty

The Food Bank of Delaware will coordinate the competition including: recruiting companies to

participate, recruiting judges, facilitating the judging, marketing and promotion of CANgi-

neering and picking up the cans when the competition has been completed. Assistance

with the promotion of the competition by competitors is welcomed, but not required.

Teams from within each company will conduct internal food drives collecting cans/boxes of

food which will then be used to build structures of their choice. Any items collected and not

used in the building structure can be donated separately to FBD and added to the sub-

category of number of pounds collected.

It will be up to each company/school/organization to determine the theme for the structure to

be built. The structure theme will determine the amount and type of canned goods to be

collected based on size and color. Companies may form several teams internally, with one

structure selected to be part of the CANgineering competition and judging.

CANgineering structures will be built at each company/school/organization’s location. Ideally,

structures will be displayed in the headquarters’ lobby, but branches and satellite locations

may also be used.

Each team’s members will be responsible for:

o Developing the concept for their structures

o Collecting the needed canned goods

o Building their structures in their sites

o Breakdown and boxing up of the structures at the end of the competition for the Food

Bank to load onto their trucks.

Sculptures should fit within a ground area of 10ft x 10ft and should be no more than 10 feet in

height. This is for safety purposes.

Structures MUST be structurally self-supporting. Please do not wrap your structure in cling wrap or packing tape.

Sculptures should be made primarily of food products.

The following materials & foods are NOT permitted in building the structure:

o Glass (including glass food packaging)

o Open or exposed food items

o Products without labeling (The FBD cannot use any products that do not have labels.)

o Candy and soda products (The FBD does not accept any types of candy or soda

products, as they do not meet the nutritional requirements set forth by our Community

Nutritionists and our overall mission).

o Permanent adhesives

o Anything additional that will damage the integrity of the donated product

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The following non-food materials ARE permitted in building the structure, but should not dam-

age the product in any way:

o Clear tape

o Velcro

o Double-faced tape

o High-tension rubber bands

o Nylon string

o 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:

o Foam-core

o Cardboard

o Masonite

o Plywood

o Plexiglass

o Cardboard tubes

A variety of items are encouraged for structures, but if a team’s creative idea requires the same

item throughout, the Food Bank of Delaware will not discourage its use.

Questions regarding the competition may be directed to Caitlin Custer, Food Bank of Delaware

Donor Relations Manager, at ccuster@fbd.org or (302) 292-1305 x 253.