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3rd Annual Extreme Redesign Contest Announced
$2,500 and $1,000 Student Scholarship Awards Aimed at Promoting
MINNEAPOLIS — May 23, 2006 — The Dimension 3D Printing Group, a business unit of Stratasys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSYS), today announced the launch of its third annual “Extreme Redesign: The Ultimate 3D Printing Challenge,” a global design and 3D printing contest for high school and college students that awards scholarships to student winners.
Following on the success of last year’s Extreme Redesign contest, which received more than 500 student entries from around the world, Dimension is once again calling on computer-aided-design (CAD) students worldwide to send in their most creative, useful and innovative Extreme Redesigns. Whether it’s a new perspective on an everyday product or a fresh vision for updating a famous piece of art, animation or architecture, Dimension will award student winners $2,500 or $1,000 scholarships based on their design’s creativity, usefulness, part integrity and aesthetics.
The company also will award teachers of first place student winners in this year’s contest a notebook computer for use in the classroom. In addition, the teacher with the most student entries overall will receive a notebook computer for encouraging student participation in the contest. To qualify, the instructor’s name and email address should be included on the contest application form, available at www.dimensionprinting.com/extreme.html.
Dimension executives awarded scholarship checks to winning designers from last year’s contest, including a college student from Germany, during a keynote awards ceremony at the National Design Engineering Show in Chicago last March. Representatives from several innovative companies, including Harley-Davidson, S.C. Johnson and Smart Design, judged the students’ design concepts.
“It was very encouraging to see the obvious enthusiasm for engineering and design exhibited in the many Extreme Redesign entries we received last year from students worldwide,” said Jon Cobb, vice president and general manager of 3D printing for Stratasys. “We look forward to another successful contest this year, hoping to translate some of that student creativity and enthusiasm into careers in engineering.”
Contest Details
To enter, students need to identify an existing product, piece of art or architecture and redesign it, making the original design better by adding new functionality or aesthetic qualities. Once the design is complete, students send a .stl file of their Extreme Redesign via Dimension’s Web site along with a completed submission form, including a 200-word description of the value and benefit of the Extreme Redesign part. Dimension will then send entrants a 3D print of their redesign they can hold in their hands and evaluate. From there, entrants have the opportunity to make any necessary design improvements and develop a second iteration for final submission.
Final submissions must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 2006. A panel of independent judges from various industries will judge final entries on the basis of creativity, usefulness, part integrity and aesthetics. Winners will be selected in February 2007 and will receive $2,500 or $1,000 scholarships. First place winners will travel to an awards ceremony at the National Design Engineering Show in Chicago in March 2007. Complete contest rules and submission information is available at www.dimensionprinting.com/education/extremeredesign.shtml.
Winning designs from last year’s contest included a detachable cord reel, electric toothbrush wall mount and rotating calendar. For photos and descriptions of last year’s winning Extreme Redesigns, visit www.dimensionprinting.com/education/extremeredesign-pastwinners05.shtml.
Extreme Redesign is sponsored by media partner Product Design & Development.
About The Dimension 3D Printing Group
The Dimension 3D Printing Group is a business unit of Stratasys, Inc., based in Minneapolis, Minn. Dimension 3D printers – which include the Dimension 1200 and Dimension 768 Series – are networked, desktop modeling systems that provide CAD (Computer-Aided-Design) users a fast, office-friendly, low-cost alternative for building functional 3D prints. Dimension 3D printers build accurate models layer by layer using durable ABS plastic, allowing users to not only evaluate design concepts, but test 3D prints for functionality, form and fit. As the first large format desktop 3D printer that sells for less than $30,000, Dimension incorporates many key features found in modeling systems that cost tens of thousands of dollars more. For more information on Dimension 3D printers, visit www.dimensionprinting.com.
