Introducing:
Contest INCITE
[Internet Community-based Interactive Technology Environment]
A Brand New Contest Medium
Innovate, Invent, Interact using a unique contest environment. Contestants will use VizSeek’s industrial online community networking platform, VizSpace, to collaborate as a team, using 80/20’s online design tool, 8020edge, to create designs fitting the theme of “Material Handling,” with a budget of $1000 for each design. With 8020edge, the contestants can use 80/20 parts to create any number of designs within their individual VizSpaces. Each team will then select five designs to submit to the contest.
One Grand Prize Winner will receive either the 80/20 parts to construct their design or a $1000 credit toward the purchase of 80/20 parts. The winning team will also have their picture and a picture of their project, constructed of 80/20 parts, featured in the 80/20 Stuff book.
Contest Registration opens September 8, 2009!
Contest Sponsors:
[RIGHT]VizSeek, a Breakthrough visual search technology
80/20 Inc. “The Industrial Erector Set”
NSF, the National Science Foundation[/RIGHT]
Check out the Contest Website: www.vizseek.com for more information
So this is a project that a fellow team member and I were working on for work over the summer and we are really hoping for people’s input and participation in the Contest as well…
Let me know what your thoughts on this are, please.
I’ll be staying up until midnight Septenber 7th to be the first to register! My team absoluely loves 80/20, and this is a perfect way to (hopefully) win some cool stuff as well as practice our CAD skills.
Can we start designing before Registration, or will the online tools not be available until then?
You can start designing as soon as you register and you can sign up for a VizSpace account even now and just play around with it, see what all it offers and what are the widgets available
Also, this is a great way to introduce new team members and minions to FIRST and CAD like software without the complicated learning ways
The Contest is approaching soon and the company wants people to start signing up for personal VizSpace accounts. All you have to do is go to vizseek.com, click on the " >> Login to VizSpace " link and follow the instructions there. Once your VizSpace is created, you can start checking out the program and all the possibilities it creates.
By the way, I tried out 80/20edge, and it seemed a bit limited in what it could make. For example, I want to make a folding cart, but the program has no pivots. Is there a way to design more freely for this contest?
The dates have been pushed back an extra week due to some unforseen complications.
Please sign up!
This is a great opportunity to teach new members designing and a great way to win prizes. Also, it’s something different to show to the judges.
