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Save The Dates 
Ohio PLTW Students Take Both First and Third Places in International Design Competition
Dimension3D Printing Group to unveil winning designs, honor student winners with scholarships
PLTW students Keith Liddy of Medina County Career Center and Rick Barr of Kettering Fairmont High School in Dayton will soon be getting some help with their college tuition. The Dimension 3D Printing Group, a business unit of Stratasys, Inc. has announced them as first and third place winners of its second annual “Extreme Redesign: The 3D Printing Challenge,” a global design and 3D printing contest for high school and college students.
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First place winner Keith Liddy designed a cord reel |
The design contest received submissions from more than 500 high school and college students across the world; other winners in the college categories came from Germany and Hungary as well as the US. Independent judges from Harley-Davidson, S.C. Johnson and Smart Design determined the winners based on creativity, usefulness, part integrity and aesthetics. Keith’s design, a detachable cord reel, was pronounced “a simple but elegant solution” by the contest judges. Rick’s adaptive sandwich holder was likewise praised for its simplicity and ease of use. Jon Cobb, vice president and general manager of 3D printing for Stratasys, praised the “overall quality, ingenuity, and creativity evident in (all) the designs.” “We are pleased to honor these students with scholarships to help them become tomorrow’s engineers, artists and inventors,” Cobb said of the contest. “We look forward to an even bigger contest in 2006.”
First place Project Lead the Way student Keith Liddy will travel with his teacher Dennis O’Brien to an awards ceremony prior to the opening of the National Design Engineering Show in Chicago. There he will be presented with a $2,500 scholarship; third place winner Rick Barr from Kettering Fairmont will receive a $1,000 scholarship. Keith, who could not believe he had won until he read the official news from Dimension Printing, said he is interested in pursuing mechanical engineering in college. He currently works at a “real world” job that Mr. O’Brien helped him get, and encourages anyone interested in design and engineering to go into a Project Lead the Way class. “It has really improved my understanding of engineering,” Keith said. “It puts you so far ahead of everyone else, and it’s also fun.”
In addition to Keith’s scholarship from Dimension, Mr. O’Brien will receive a Dell laptop computer for his efforts in encouraging his students to participate in this year’s contest. O’Brien, who had 23 students in his Project Lead the Way pre-engineering class submit designs for the contest, said he was “walking on air” the day the winners were announced, especially since this was Medina County’s first time to enter it. O’Brien encourages other schools and teachers to “take a serious look” at Project Lead the Way. “I know of no other organization that has that kind of resources and support available to teachers of pre-engineering skills,” O’Brien said. “And the activities in the curriculum engage the students at the high level of analytical thinking that is necessary for success in today's engineering careers.”
Photos and descriptions of winning and runner-up parts are available by visiting www.dimensionprinting.com.
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