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The primary aim of the award is to create publicity, PR push and advertisement opportunities for design award winners while supporting the global design culture, creating incentives for entrants to come up with superior designs for a better future. A' Design Awards is a premier annual juried design competition that honors the best designers, architects, engineers, design studios, brands and design oriented companies worldwide to provide them publicity, fame and recognition. A' Design Award and Competitions are organized and awarded annually and internationally in a wide range of categories.
Every year, projects that focus on innovation, technology, design and creativity are awarded with the A' Award. The A' Design Award and Competition has a very well developed methodology for choosing the best designs using rigorous evaluative criteria, blind judging processes, score normalization, cross matching and more, to reward only the best designers and firms that truly deserve special recognition. The Jury of the A' Design award is composed of Academics, Professionals, Enterprise and Focus Group members and follow strict guidelines to provide a fair and ethical evaluation. The A' Design Award & Competition logo, awarded by international experts, is trusted worldwide and denotes solidly proven design quality. Companies and design studios use their A' Design Award victory as a visible symbol in their communication. Participating in the A' Design Award & Competition demonstrates the will to innovate, redesign, rethink and the courage to compare yourself to others in competition. The purpose of A' Design Award is to highlight, advertise & advocate good design, and to provide its' winners extensive and intensive publicity, fame and prestige.
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While realized projects find opportunities to get published, reach new markets and meet a wide range of buyers for their existing products, the organization also helps the creative minds and startups to meet with the business people to realize their product ideas. 
For potential clients, the A' Design Award winner logo is a guideline for finding the best designs and creative services within the marketplace. Learn about the benefits here.
Make:able 3D Printing Challenge | PrintLab & Autodesk
The challenge is for anyone with an interest in 3D design and 3D printing.
There are 3 categories based on age groups – under 14, 14-18 and over 18. If students in a class are divided between an age group category, we can accept their entries into a single category of your choice. Teachers, hobbyists and professionals are also welcome to participate in the over 18’s category.
Make:able and all associated resources are completely free. We may however recommend supplementary content that may support you, such as PrintLab’s 3D printing curriculum.
You can either design a product for a real end user (e.g. someone in your local community), or design a product for a Make:able Champion. Make:able Champions are people with disabilities who have shared their story and day-to-day challenges in a series of videos within the Make:able challenge toolkit.
The full brief and guidelines are outlined in the challenge toolkit and teacher’s pack (for schools), but the key rules are as follows:
• You may work in teams of up to 5 people in the same age category.
• The design process must include the use of either Tinkercad or Fusion 360 software and the digital 3D model produced should be 3D printable.
• A physical 3D printed prototype must be created. If you do not have 3D printers available, we recommend contacting local organisations/ makerspaces, who may be able to support you with 3D printing services.
The submission format is a 2-4 minute video, which shows information about your end user, how you developed empathy, how you framed a challenge, the idea generation process, the design-make-iterate process and visuals of the final product in action. Videos must be uploaded to the online form included in section 8 of the toolkit by the 1st May 2023. In addition to the video, you will be required to provide the following information during your online form submission:
• 3D design files (Tinkercad or Fusion 360).
• Bill of materials and assembly/usage instructions (if any).
• License (type of permission granted to others who wish to use their designs).
Full guidance on submissions is provided in section 8 of the online toolkit.
Upon signing up, you will receive access to the teacher’s pack. This will provide you with a full teacher’s guide and a set of standards-aligned lesson plans that can be used as inspiration when planning your own lessons. It should be noted that the lesson plans and challenge toolkit can be used as little or as much as you like. As long as the brief and guidelines are adhered to, feel free to create your own pathway for students.
Our approach is to be flexible on how much time you spend on your submission. However, we recommend that a minimum of 6 x ≈ 1 hour sessions are allocated to the make:able challenge.
Video submissions will be judged by a global panel of industry experts in May 2023 and winners will be announced in July 2023. There are a total of 6 prizes to be awarded for each age group. Prizes are under consideration but will include 3D printers and other technology products for the winning teams.
Please see the challenge toolkit for a breakdown of the prize categories. *Prizes for the under 14 and 14-18 winners will be provided to the school/organisation of the participants.
Experience in 3D design and 3D printing is helpful but not required. 3D design tutorials are included within the toolkit and additional training resources are also recommended in the challenge materials.
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3D printing contests and olympiads for schoolchildren
The essence of education is to prepare children for their future profession. But in addition to the preparation itself, it is also involved in helping to choose the future development of the student. If a child has found his vocation, then he can use the skills already acquired with benefit both for their development and for receiving benefits. For example, by competing in competitions and olympiads, participants can get an advantage in the form of additional points when entering a university. Already, there are many competitions of various formats and sizes. If a child is interested in 3D printing, then he can test his skills and gain experience in real-life applications of 3D printing in serious projects. Next, we will look at the most popular and successful competitions and olympiads, as well as courses where students can gain experience and understand whether they like 3D printing or not.
3D printing in education
Unlike the classical subjects studied in school, 3D printing is the closest thing to the practical application of skills. Thanks to this, and also because of the visibility of the process, it is much easier for a student to get involved in this industry. In addition, 3D printing is part of many more serious industries - engineering, prototyping, development and manufacturing. That is, immediately after learning the basics, you can choose a more in-depth study of a particular area.
But besides learning the technology itself, 3D printing can be applied in more practical ways, using it only as a tool in the educational process. For example, in mathematics lessons it will be much more visual to have three-dimensional figures and three-dimensional graphs in physical embodiment, rather than trying to translate them into a plane. In biology and anatomy classes, it will be possible to hold anatomically accurate examples of human organs in your hands. In physics, many processes can be explained by analogy, and 3D printing makes it easy to produce the necessary installations and stands for visual demonstration, especially of various mechanical devices.
Types of competitive activities
Despite the novelty of 3D printing in education, many competitions directly or indirectly use it. But it is worth separating competitions not only by names and venues, but also by type of activity and necessary skills. Basically, there are two formats: Olympiads and project competitions. It is not always possible to find a direct mention of such a division, but the principle of division is quite simple: Olympiads are held for a short period of time and are divided into stages, while project competitions have a longer duration and pose more complex tasks. Also, do not forget about the age division. Often, students from 14 to 18 years old are allowed to participate in competitions. But some competitions are designed for younger competitors, such as Big Challenges or JuniorSkills. Next, we will consider all the variety of competitions for schoolchildren dedicated to 3D printing and using it.
All-Russian Olympiad in 3D technologies
This activity belongs to the Olympiad format and is carried out by the 3D Education Association. Schoolchildren participating in it will have to show their skills first at the regional stage, and then at the all-Russian stage. The last stage has already taken place in such children's camps as Artek and Smena.
In total, there are 3 competencies in the competition:
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3D Pro - students are given a task, the essence of which is to manufacture a device or its prototype using volume modeling programs and 3D printers
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3D Art - students must make a creative composition on a given topic using 3D pens
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Volumetric scanning - as the name implies, students will have to scan an object and process it to obtain a high-quality model.
Also, each category is divided into 2 age groups: 7-8 grades and 9-11 grades. In each group, participants are evaluated separately, which makes it possible to identify the predisposition of schoolchildren who have just begun to study additive technologies. This Olympiad is the largest in Russia: more than 4000 schoolchildren, about 300 schools from 32 regions of Russia took part in the regional qualifying stages, about 1500 schoolchildren reached the final. And the geography of the Olympics extends throughout Russia.
But before participating, it is worth considering that it is necessary to have at least basic skills in volume modeling and using a 3D printer, since at the Olympiad itself, schoolchildren must use the skills they have already acquired. In addition to the possibility of a trip to the camp, the student will receive a unique experience in the development and production of a product in a short time. Even if you fail to pass to the final stage, participation in the competition will allow you to evaluate your current skills and knowledge. You can read more about the Olympiad on their official website.
3DBUM
The most popular and well-known project competition dedicated to additive technologies, in particular 3D printing. Schoolchildren will have to develop a full-fledged product according to a given technical task and defend their project. They are given several months to do this, during which they can attend master classes dedicated to the topic of the nomination.
Initially, the competition aimed to introduce schoolchildren to project activities and teach them how to work in a team, and 3D printing technology was taken as the basis, which could be easily used by schoolchildren on their own. But at the moment, thanks to the expansion of the number of nominations, schoolchildren can learn not only how to work with 3D printers, but also more serious CNC machines. This became possible as a result of the assistance of universities: they became resource centers where participants can make the missing parts. Participation in competitions is not limited to manufacturing, because each nomination is assigned to one university, and the winners in this nomination can receive additional points upon admission. Among the partners, you can also see large corporations such as Autodesk, PICASO 3D, Roland, etc.
It is also worth mentioning about the offshoot of this competition for children - 3D Boom Junior. Junior students can take part in it. The essence remains the same - to develop a project according to a given technical task. But the approach is different - instead of using serious CNC machines, participants bring their ideas to life with the help of the educational line of LEGO Education constructors. In addition, if necessary, you can use more serious tools, such as programs for volumetric modeling. Since the basis of both 3DBOOM and 3D Boom Junior is the same, the skills gained while participating in the junior version of the competition can be very useful when participating in the annual “senior” competition.
More information about 3DBUM can be found on the official website.
JuniorSkills
Unlike the above competitions, JuniorSkills is a whole career guidance and training program, therefore, the goals are different - identifying talents at an early age and helping to acquire skills and knowledge. A part of this program is a competition in 19 qualifications. Although all programs are devoted to fairly large areas, many of them are directly or indirectly tied to additive technologies, such as “CAD Engineering Design (CAD)” and “Prototyping”. Pupils not only take part in the competition of young professionals, but also attend practical classes in the nomination of interest.
This program is sponsored not only by companies, but also by entire corporations, such as Roskosmos, Cisco, Ascon, Festo and others. Also, material and informational support is provided by universities and universities. More information about participation in the competition can be found on the official website of JuniorSkills.
Big challenges
This competition is part of the All-Russian competition of design and research works for schoolchildren, and the final is held at the Sirius Educational Center.
A distinctive feature of this competition is a small number of restrictions - only the subject is set, within which it is necessary to develop a project. In this regard, and also due to the intersection of some topics with the competencies of other competitions, you can make only one project, but at the same time submit it to several competitions at once. The benefit of "Big Challenges" has an extensive list of areas: from Agro-industrial technologies to Modern energy. If you are interested in this competition, then you can apply for participation on the official website of the program.
Courses and further education
Before participating in many competitions, you should study additive technologies at least at a basic level. This is necessary not only to gain knowledge and skills, but also to understand the interests of the student. Fortunately, in our time, many schools already have 3D printers and even additional education circles completely dedicated to 3D printing. Next, we will look at the most promising projects on which the student will be able to learn 3D printing and 3D modeling.
Quantorium
This educational program combines a huge number of circles dedicated to modern technologies. Additive technologies are considered from a practical point of view, that is, the student receives the skills and knowledge necessary to apply 3D printing to larger projects. But some areas are almost entirely devoted to volumetric modeling, such as PromDesignQuantum or Hightech.
Most of the directions are available to students from 10 to 18 years old, but some directions can only be enrolled from the age of 12 due to the specifics of the equipment used in the training. At the moment, there are 110 Quantorium children's technology parks in 76 regions of Russia. If you are interested in this project, you can sign up on the official website of the Quantorium program.
