Create Before. Reveal at RENEW.

The Second Life Challenge

Contestants design and complete their entries before RENEW, deliver the finished work by Friday, October 2, and share it with the community on event day.

Choose your division

Both divisions celebrate imagination, useful materials, thoughtful craft, and the courage to see what something could become.

Reimagined Furniture

Begin with an existing furniture piece and give it renewed function, character, usefulness, or meaning.

From Scratch / Reclaimed Materials

Create something new from reclaimed, recovered, surplus, or otherwise overlooked materials.

Finished-entry delivery

How the Challenge works

Register for a division, create the project off-site before the event, deliver the finished entry Friday, October 2, and return for the public display at RENEW on Saturday, October 3.

Register

Choose a division and tell the RENEW team what you plan to create.

Create beforehand

Complete the project before RENEW using your own workspace, process, tools, and materials.

Deliver the finished entry

Bring the completed project to the event venue Friday, October 2. Check-in time and delivery instructions are coming soon.

Share it at RENEW

Entries will be presented to the community Saturday, October 3. Judging, prizes, and auction participation will be published when confirmed.

Volunteers work together to restore a worn wooden chair and dresser in a sunlit workshop.

Who can enter

Individuals and teams can register their interest. Final eligibility, age requirements, team limits, and competition rules will be published when confirmed.

Final competition details are coming soon

Eligibility, age requirements, judging criteria, size and material limits, delivery time, prizes, and auction options will be posted when confirmed. Registration is an expression of interest until the RENEW team follows up.

Register for the Challenge

Required · Optional