Stratasys announces 2015 Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge winners

STRATASYS Ltd (Nasdaq:SSYS) has announced the winners of its 11th annual Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge.

 

For the Art and Architecture category, the Helix-Shaped Sharpener (shown here)  from Haya Alnibari and Ti Fu of Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada won the first place. The Subspace from Hou Shun Poh of National University of Singapore grabbed second place, while the third place went to Prismatic from Ashley Christensen and Lauren Aquilina of the Michigan State University.

 

In the Secondary Education Engineering category, the first place was awarded to the Hunch 2015 Zero Gravity Scale by Thomas Vagnini of the Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School in Franklin, Massachusetts. The Zero Gravity Mixer from Joshua Fuller, also of Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School, won second place. The Socket Cube Concept of Li Cheng Yu of the Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in Toronto nabbed third place. 

 

Cooling with Heat from Melanie Gralow and Lena Heemann of Germany’s University of Bremen grabbed the top honors in the Post-Secondary Engineering category. It was followed at second place by Flex Key from Mahan Navabi and Mark Eyk of Toronto’s Ryerson University. The Ice Twist from Alexandre Beznogov and Jossef Roozitalab Shirazi, also of Ryerson University, won third place.  

 

The winners were selected based on creativity, mechanical soundness, and realistic achievability. 

 

First place winners will receive a $2,500 scholarship from Stratasys. The second and third place winners will get a $1,000 scholarship. The instructor of the first place winner in each category will receive a demo 3D printer to use in the classroom for a limited time. For the first time this year, the first-place student winner in the post-secondary category wins a trip to a 2015 3D printing/additive manufacturing conference whose location has yet to be determined. 

 

Stratasys’ global competition provides an opportunity to students in secondary and postsecondary educational institutions to redesign an existing product or create a new product aimed at improving efficiency. The company has awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships to innovative students since the contest’ inception.

 

The judges for this year’s competition included industry experts Tim Shinbara of the Association for Manufacturing Technology, 3D printing industry veteran Patrick Gannon, Leslie Langnau of Design World magazine, and Todd Grimm of T.A. Grimm and Associates.