SolidWorks wants to send one lucky award winner to Chaa Creek Resort in Belize. All you have to do is redesign a chair. Ready? Go!
Ok, so it’s not quite that simple. First, there are rules for this contest. Next, there are three separate categories for SolidWorks commercial designers, Students and resellers. Each one has its own grand prize, but only the commercial designers are eligible to go to Belize. However, the prizes for the student winners are pretty cool. The top two students win trips to SolidWorks World 2012 in San Diego. The first place winner also gets an iPad2. There’s other prizes as well, but those aren’t important. What is important is the contest itself.
The Green Design Contest, which is sponsored by SolidWorks, is to help further awareness of Sustainability in SolidWorks, as well as sustainability on the whole.
“Imagine a five percent reduction in the environmental impact of a chair at every stage of its lifecycle—from raw materials through manufacturing, distribution, use, disposal, and recycling,” said Asheen Phansey, product manager for SolidWorks Sustainability. “Considering the rows upon rows of chairs you see at an airport terminal, you’re starting to talk about a compounding benefit. Now expand that idea to other products. If we can use sustainable design for every product that’s made, designers and engineers can drastically improve the environmental footprint of their designs and truly enrich the planet.”
SolidWorks has lined up quite the panel of judges:
• Al Dean, Editor-in-Chief, Develop3D and Develop3D Sustainability magazines
• Sol Diamond, Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
• Josh Mings, Owner/Editor, SolidSmack.com
• Mark Buckley, VP of Environmental Affairs, Staples
• Stephen Endersby, Simulation Product Manager, SolidWorks
• Rick Chin, Director of Product Innovation, SolidWorks
• Asheen Phansey, Sustainability Product Manager, SolidWorks
I could further bore you with all the details, but you’re going to have to go here to get the rules and the model.
Good luck!
