School Design and Technology Competitions – A Great Way to Get Students Motivated

Don’t forget teachers one of the best ways to get students motivated and on board is to utilise design and technology competitions from around the world – either as the start of a project brief (you do not need to enter), actually enter as part of a brief usually in teams to really give students a challenge. Below are a few that are around at the moment – and the classic Design Museum competition is about to open shortly: –

• http://ventura.designmuseum.org/ – May 2015 Entries and Competition opens for Design Museum (Just about to open)
• http://designengineerconstruct.com/vision-hope-school-parabongo-challenge/ – Design an Eco-School for Parabongo (Quite complicated – but good brief for a Sustainability project)
• http://www.stratasys.com/industries/education/extreme-redesign/contest-rules – 3D Design and Printing (Yearly competition – a bit open ended but good for your CAD geeks…)
• http://www.helicopter2050.com/?opt=contest – Design an Eco-Freindly Helicopter for Sikorsky (Just about to open for 2015)
• http://www.cleantechcompetition.org/the-challenge/ – Clean Tech Competition (Now closed but an interesting brief)
• http://www.wool4school.com/competition/teachers/ – Wool and Textile Design Challenge (About to close)
• http://www.schoolgen.co.nz/community/competitions/mean-green-house-competition-2015#_Instructions – Mean Green House (Competition Open in New Zealand only )

Please share any other competitions in the comments box, for all to share.