Extreme Redesign 4:The Ultimate 3D Printing Challenge

By DE Editors

The Dimension 3D Printing Group, a business unit of Stratasys, Inc., has launched its fourth annual “Extreme Redesign: The Ultimate 3D Printing Challenge,” a design and 3D printing contest for high school and college students. Students compete for scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $2,500. Dimension will also award teachers of the three first-place student winners a laptop computer for use in the classroom.

Winning entries are selected by an independent panel of judges based on a design’s creativity, usefulness, part integrity, and aesthetics. This year’s contest has been expanded to include an art and architecture challenge open to both high school and university students, in addition to the high school and university engineering categories included in previous years.

To enter the high school or university engineering categories, students must identify an existing product and redesign it, making the original design better by adding new functionality or aesthetic qualities. For submissions in the art and architecture category, the emphasis should be on originality and the overall beauty or aesthetic of the design.

Students are required to submit an STL file of their Extreme Redesign, a submission form, and a 200-word description of the value and benefit of the Extreme Redesign part. Final submissions must be postmarked by December 31, 2007. Winners will be selected in February 2008.

Complete contest rules and submission information;  video, photos, and descriptions of last year’s winning Extreme Redesigns; and more information on rapid printing is available at  dimensionprinting.com.

Dimension 3D Printing
Eden Prairie, MN
dimensionprinting.com