Instructables' Make It Bridge Challenge with Prizes Worth of More Than $50.000
Applicant criteria
- 13 - 21
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
Instructables.com has launched (Make It Bridge) Student Design Challenge, in this contest your challenge is to rethink a gap that exists in your community by designing a new structure or space that includes a pedestrian bridge to offer something more for the people and places it connects. We are giving away more than $50,000 in prizes to the best entries!
A pedestrian bridge can attract attention as a significant visual feature of a landscape, or it can subtly blend into its surroundings. It can provide physical and visual connection across divided spaces, bridging the gap between old and new, urban and natural, struggle and opportunity, possible and impossible...
You may use the Dar bridge starter model linked below to incorporate into your design, or you may create your own. You should begin by selecting a specific site for the bridge in your community. It could be an existing structure or space adjacent to a natural area, an empty lot, or land occupied by abandoned or under-utilized buildings that require repair, reuse, or demolition. Your new design should connect via a pedestrian bridge to the existing structure or space. It could be constructed for special events or for permanent use.
In choosing the site for the bridge, you might consider what it would look like from below and from a distance, how it would feel to cross it, and what it could offer to the spaces or even nature beneath it. You might also consider how it could be embedded with technology like sensors that could collect data which might be used to gain new insights and understanding.
Benefits
36 PRIZES:
- Grand Prize: We are giving away one $10,000 scholarship award Grand Prize in each of the two following categories: Best use of CAD (Computer Aided Design) or BIM (Building Information Modeling) tools / Best physical prototype
- First Prize: Four First Prize winners will receive: $,5000 scholarship award
- Second Prize: ten Second Prize winners will receive: $,1000 scholarship award
- Runner Up: 20 runner ups will receive: $500 Gift Card.
Eligibility criteria
Your design should:
- Include a pedestrian-scale bridge
- Be relevant to one or more of the following uses:
- Strengthening civic life or social infrastructure
- Bringing people together across lines of difference
- Promoting a deeper relationship between humans and nature
- Increasing accessibility and/or a sense of belonging for a user group
- Approach the task with a real-world perspective, demonstrating skills and knowledge from one or more of the following fields: architecture, engineering, construction, and/or the skilled trades
- Incorporate Autodesk software
Write an Instructable:
Create a new Instructable that fits the guidelines outlined in the contest description above. To be eligible, Instructables must be published between Mar 6, 2023 and Jun 26, 2023 (11:59pm PT).
Accepting:
Entries are accepted by Instructables staff within one business day Monday - Friday. What matters is the submission time, not acceptance time.
Eligible projects:
- Open to students ages 13-21 and currently enrolled in high school or homeschooled in the United States or Canada (excluding Quebec).
- All entries MUST share the entrant's grade level in the introductory step.
- All entries MUST incorporate Autodesk software in their design.
- Submissions must be entered between March 6, 2023, and June 26, 2023 (11:59pm PT).
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