"Italics Award" Trophy Design Challenge

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Boston Startup School, a 6 week intensive program for aspiring entrepreneurs and young professionals, is recognizing influential players in the Boston startup scene next week. They need your help designing 3D-printable trophies for their seven "Italics Award" winners.

The seven trophies will be 3D printed on a Dimension 1200 printer over the weekend and presented early next week at the 1st annual Italics award ceremony in Boston, MA.

The trophy should have a base structure upon which an ink well rests. A quill should protrude from the well. We envision a square frustum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frustum) base of approximately 150mm x 150mm. The entire build height cannot exceed 300mm.

On one side (the front) of the base, "2012 Italics Awards" should be engraved on one line with "Recipient Name" engraved directly below it. Once the challenge winner has been selected, he or she will be responsible for submitting seven additional models- each with a different name on it.

Creative entries are encouraged, but always keep in mind the ability to 3D print inexpensively (i.e. hollow everything out, avoid overhanging structures).

You can read more about the Dimension printer here: http://www.dimensionprinting.com/3d-printers/printing-productspecs1200series.aspx

CHALLENGE UPDATE 6/6/12 @ noon EST

- Minimum wall thickness for acceptable 3D printing is a significant factor, but the allowable thickness depends on a few factors-- does the wall support weight, is it curved etc... Wall thickness should never be less then 2mm, but thicker may be required depending on your model.

- The quill should be printed as well, affixed to the inside of the inkwell. The angle of the quill should be between 45 and 90 degrees from the frustum's base.

- Cost to print is one of most critical factors when selecting the winning design. Please keep this in mind at all times. A smaller trophy could be a better choice. The less material the better.

Requirements

Trophy must be designed for 3D printing with minimal use of material while maintaining structural rigidity.
The ink well structure should be empty (hollow), as should the base. The feather or quill should be affixed to one side of the ink well structure (think of a straw in an empty cup).
Colors are restricted to white, black, ivory, nectarine, blue, olive green, gray, fluorescent yellow and red.

Rules

This challenge is open to everyone
Winners will be announced on GrabCAD blog and here on this challenge site under tab Results
Team entries are welcome. In case of team win, prize money will be transferred to team leader who is solely responsible for splitting it among team members.
You can submit several designs.
Tag your model with “StartupSchool” to make it easier to find.
You may upload a private model but you need to share access to gabe@grabcad.com and sej3@georgetown.edu
Privately uploaded models will be made public after the competition deadline.
Entries should be submitted as an STL (.stl) file. You are also encouraged to upload IGES (.igs), Rhinoceros 4 (.3dm), or SolidWorks part or assembly file (.SLDPRT, .SLDASM).
Competition starts: June 5th 2012
Competition ends: June 8th @ 2p Boston time

Prizes

1st Prize: $500 Cash Prize
2nd Prize: GrabCAD T-Shirt

About the jury?

The winner will be selected by Shaun Johnson of Boston Startup School and Gabe Blanchet of GrabCAD.

About Boston Startup School

Boston Startup School is the best place for young professionals to learn the skills needed to have an immediate and positive impact on the startup they join. Your days will be spent working on real startup challenges, rapidly applying your new skills. You will have an opportunity to meet an incredible set of Boston startup companies that are looking for top talent to grow their businesses.
Our program is an immersive, six-week, full time experience that educates participants on startup culture, team dynamics and one of four in-demand skill sets.

43 comments

Fateh MERRAD about 1 year ago

NIce Challange!!

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William about 1 year ago

Interesting little challange :P

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Tobias Mattsson about 1 year ago

Nice challenge, short deadline :)

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153a4ad1 about 1 year ago

Really like this deadline.

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Tobias Mattsson about 1 year ago

whats the minimum material thickness? Is it one layer?
(0.245 or 0.33 mm) or is it more.

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Nick Hampton about 1 year ago

Should be fun.
Is the quill provided or is it also to be printed?

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153a4ad1 about 1 year ago

I'm familiar with wall thicknesses in 3D printing, with material I used it was safe to work with 2mm or more. It depends on the lenght of the wall too and some factors like how much weight it needs to carry along. Exact wall thinkness would be great

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Aleix about 1 year ago

Just wondering if support structures should be designed for de FDM printing process, or it would be done by the operators of the machine??

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Shaun Johnson about 1 year ago

The quill should be printed as well, affixed to the inside of the inkwell. The angle of the quill should be between 45 and 90 degrees from the frustum's base.

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Dragan Beljan about 1 year ago

@Shaun, I uploaded the one model, tell your opinion

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naveen thontepu about 1 year ago

can i get some information for what the people are been given these awards so that might be incorporated in the trophy.

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Julian Harding about 1 year ago

2012 Italics Trophy

don't know, for some reason has not linked to challenge page???

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JF Brandon about 1 year ago

@Aleix support structures are created by the operators and removed later

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Kristina Narusk about 1 year ago

Just some ideas tot he participants: such startup programmes usually help small and young teams to develop their business ideas. And the programme should inject the participants with energy, enthusiasm, speed and all other crucial characteristics. Like a Red Bull on a long exam prep night!
So the award could be looking something totally unexpected or colourful, too. I'd participate in this if I weren't a staff member :)

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Gabe Blanchet about 1 year ago

TO ALL PARTICIPANTS: We have posted a few challenge updates in the main description section above. Please continue to ask questions as you have them.

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Shaun Johnson about 1 year ago

Here's the link to the actual awards event, with description: http://italics2012.eventbrite.com/
cc: naveen

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Shaun Johnson about 1 year ago

@evil, Wow, I'm impressed how quickly this was made! I think the tall base may not be an efficient use of material & I don't quite understand the spiraling circle in the background. Otherwise, good stuff.

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Kyle Reeder about 1 year ago

Good challenge but I wish there was more room for more artistic freedom. Good luck everyone! I'm sure we won't disappoint.

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Dragan Beljan about 1 year ago

Which material will used for this trophy?

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Rob Sawatsky about 1 year ago

Is the support material the break-away type, or the water soluble type?

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Aleix about 1 year ago

@JF Brandon. Thanks. Just what I needed to know¡

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Ron about 1 year ago

Can you tell me what type of word font "Italics" is (the word in the logo)

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Antonis Asimakopoulos about 1 year ago

Interesting challenge, I found it quite amusing modelling a quill

One question. Will you use any hardening resing on the final products? I know it will increase the cost a lot but the final products could be designed with less of the printing powder material.

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Dragan Beljan about 1 year ago

I uploaded the new model but did not show up in Entries?
Italics award trophy 5

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Gabe Blanchet about 1 year ago

@ Evil Worker - I am not sure why it is not showing up. We will consider the submission.

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Ron about 1 year ago

As did Evil Worker, I uploaded an improved trophy design. Here's the link: 2012 Italics Awards Trophy V2

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Ron about 1 year ago

Forgot to mention that my new design didn't appear in entries. Sorry!

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Flaviano Crespi about 1 year ago

My file:
Italics award trophy (3)
regularly tagged d'nt appear in the list!

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S. Castrena about 1 year ago

didn't appear in the list either, my file :
"Italics Awards" Trophy

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Gabe Blanchet about 1 year ago

@Castrena @Flaviano, @Ron - We will accept all of your submissions. Good luck.

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Ron about 1 year ago

@Gabe - Thank you

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Flaviano Crespi about 1 year ago

@Gabe - Thanks

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Nick Hampton about 1 year ago

Congrats to all the winners, cool little challenge!

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Ghioca Claudiu about 1 year ago

what the hell happend??? my design does not appear on the contest...i uploaded the design here but is not here...is only on the library.....does any of the site admin's know what happend...is it me or is a bug???

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JF Brandon about 1 year ago

@Ghioca Sorry to hear that - Lets discuss this further over private chat and figure out what happened. If this happened to anyone else here please message me.

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Kaspar Kiis about 1 year ago

@Ghioca, your design is among the entries and was accepted as a submission.

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Ron about 1 year ago

@JF Brandon, it happened to me. And my other model was considered, I'm just saying it didn't appear in the entries.

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HUSSAM KAMEL about 1 year ago

hi how can i get my prize? thanks

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Kaspar Kiis about 1 year ago

@Hussam, I will contact you shortly.

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Hardi Meybaum about 1 year ago

Just saw the winning product in real life - http://t.co/0Rca505T

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Tobias Mattsson about 1 year ago

That dosnt look much like the winning design, seing as its flat mostly, and put on a glass plate...

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Hardi Meybaum about 1 year ago

It's all about input the customer got from all the great work from you

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