NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Design Contest 2008

Reveal your inner genius

It’s time to bring out the inventions you’ve been keeping to yourself. Show off your design and engineering skills in the Create The Future Design Contest.

$20,000, other great prizes, fame and glory are on the line!

RULES

Contest begins July 8, 2008 and ends October 17, 2008. We must receive your entry 11:59 pm ET on October 17, 2008.  For your entry to qualify for consideration, you must meet the following requirements:

• Complete the official Entry Form and upload image(s) with your entry.
• Choose one of six categories for your entry:
  • Consumer Products: Products that increase quality of life in the workplace, at home, during leisure time, or while traveling.
  • Machinery, Equipment and Component Technology: Products that speed and improve work, manufacturing, or scientific research processes.
  • Medical Products: Products that improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare.
  • Safety and Security: Products that enhance the security or safety of individuals, businesses, communities, or nations.
  • Sustainable Technologies: Products that help reduce dependence on non-renewable energy resources, as well as products designed for other purposes using environmentally friendly materials or manufacturing processes.
  • Transportation: Products that enable movement of people and goods from one place to another.
• Provide a complete description of your entry (up to 500 words), in the form of a technical abstract. Review Tips from previous judges for how to create a winning description.  You will be judged on these criteria:
  • Innovation
  • Manufacturability
  • Marketability
  • Cost-effectiveness
  • Design communication (visuals and text explanation)
• Upload at least one visual illustration (file type options: PDF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, EDRW). You may submit:
  • Scanned sketches, charts, and 2D CAD drawing images
  • 3D CAD images including 3D PDF
  • Drawings files

JUDGING

The publisher of NASA Tech Briefs magazine will select a minimum of 35 judges from the magazine’s editorial board of readers. The judging panel will also be open to one representative from each Gold sponsor company. All decisions of the judges shall be final.

Winners will be notified by phone, email, and/or direct mail, and announced in January 2009. Winners will also be highlighted in April 2009 in the supplemental issue of NASA Tech Briefs magazine.  After January 2009, you may obtain a list of the prize winners by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Tech Briefs Media Group; 1466 Broadway, #910; New York, NY 10036, Att’n: NASA Tech Briefs, Create the Future design contest.

PRIZES

Grand Prize
$20,000 USD

First Prize in Each Category (6)
HP xw4600 Workstations (or comparable workstation of equivalent value)

Popular Vote Winners (5)
$100 USD

All qualified entrants will receive a limited-edition Create the Future design contest t-shirt or souvenir of equivalent or greater value.

http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/