Submit your best new product designs in up to seven categories at TechBriefs for a chance to win $20,000, other great prizes, and global recognition. There’s no cost to enter.
Prizes
- Grand Prize (1)
$20,000 USD, provided by COMSOL and Mouser Electronics - First Prize in Each Category (7)
HP deskside workstation computer or laptop, courtesy of HP and Nvidia. - The winner in the Machinery/Automation/Robotics category will also receive a copy of MapleSim modeling & simulation software from category sponsor Maplesoft ($5,000 value).
- Popular Vote Prizes (10)
The Top Ten Most Popular Entries, as voted on by contest site visitors, will each receive Nanodots Magnetic Constructors from Nano Magnetics. These precision crafted Rare-Earth magnets, heralded as “Lego of the 21st Century,” can be clicked, sculpted and combined in infinite ways. - Top 100 Entries (100)
Certificate of Achievement suitable for framing
Winning entries will be featured in a special supplement to Tech Briefs magazine’s November 2017 issue. The Medical Category winner will be spotlighted in the November 2017 issue of Medical Design Briefs magazine. Grand prize and category winners will be invited to a special awards reception and dinner in New York City on Friday, November 10.
How to Win
- Visit the link below
- Complete the form to register
- Confirm your registration, by replying to their e-mail
- Log in and complete the entry form
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Entry Requirements
The Contest opens for entries on March 1, 2017 and closes July 1, 2017 (referred to herein as the Contest Live Period). Entries must be received by 11:59 pm ET on July 1, 2017. For your entry to qualify for consideration, you must meet the following requirements:
- Complete the Official Entry Form and upload at least one image with your entry.
- Choose one of seven categories for your entry:
- Aerospace & Defense — Product innovations with applications in the aerospace, aviation, and/or defense markets.
- Automotive/Transportation — Products that enable movement of people and goods from one place to another.
- Consumer Products — Products that increase quality of life in the workplace, at home, during leisure time, or while traveling.
- Electronics/Sensors/IoT — Products that improve computing, communications, sensing, test, and other fields that rely on advances in electronic components, boards and systems; products that enable an interconnected world – the Internet of Things (IoT).
- Machinery/Automation/Robotics — Products that speed, improve, and/or automate work, manufacturing, and research & development (R&D).
- Medical Products — Products that improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare.
- Sustainable Technologies — Products that reduce dependence on non-renewable energy resources, as well as products designed for other purposes using environmentally friendly materials or manufacturing processes.
- Provide a description of your entry (up to 500 words) in the form of a technical abstract, in English. Your description should cover how the entry works, what makes it novel, how it would be produced, and where it would be applied. You will be judged on these criteria:
- Innovation (50% of score) — What makes the design novel? Does it represent an important advance over current state of the art?
- Manufacturability (25%) — How easy would it be to implement? Can it be cost-effectively manufactured/produced?
- Marketability (25%) — Does the idea have practical applications? Is there a well-defined, significant market for its use?
- Upload at least one (but no more than three) visual illustrations. File type options: PDF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, EDRW. The visual illustration(s) should complement your entry description and can be drawings, photos, charts, or CAD images.
Duration and More Details
Contest ends: July 1, 2017
More details at techbriefs.com
