2025 Canstructure Competition

Our goal is to collectively donate 25,000 pounds of food to the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank this year!

Teams in grades K-12 are invited to design and build CANstructures that will help feed vulnerable members of our community while bringing awareness to the issue of food insecurity. A CANstructure is a unique work of art that is created by collecting hundreds—sometimes thousands!—of canned food items, which are then used to engineer a 3-dimensional structure that relates to this year’s theme, "Oh, the Places You’ll Go!" Middle and high school students will build and present their structures at Patrick Henry Mall on Saturday, April 26th; elementary teams will present their CANstructures at their schools the week prior. Awards for all 3 competition levels (elementary, middle & high) will be announced at Center Court on 4/26 at 2:30pm at Patrick Henry Mall.

Upon registering, each team will receive a toolkit with pacing guide, service-learning lessons, competition rules and judging rubric, among other helpful resources! Be sure to visit our CANstructure event pages from past years for inspiration!