Category: 3D Design Competitions
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Find A Way 3D Design Thinking Competition Winners!
We are proud to announce the winners of Makers Empire's Design Thinking competition from July: Find A Way! In this competition, students were challenged to design a complex 3D maze that they could get lost in. This was the original design challenge: We enjoyed all of the competition submissions! The mazes that students created were incredibly complex...
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Splash Down 3D Design Competition Winners!
We are proud to announce the winners of Makers Empire's Design Thinking competition from June: Splash Down! In this competition, students were challenged to design a landing pad where bees could safely access the water to drink. This was the original design challenge: We enjoyed all of the competition submissions! The students created such thoughtful, practical and creative...
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Super Gadget 3D Design Competition Winners!
We are proud to announce the Super Gadget 3D design competition winners! Students were challenged to create a superhero character and then design a new super gadget the superhero needs to fight supervillains. This was the original design challenge: We enjoyed all of the competition submissions! The students showed lots of innovation and inventor skills...
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Blast Off 3D Design Competition Winners!
We are proud to announce the Blast Off 3D design competition winners and runners-up. In this competition, students celebrated International Day of Human Space Flight by designing a model of what they think a future spacecraft might look like. This was the original design challenge: We enjoyed all of the competition submissions! The students showed...
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Year Of The Dog 3D Design Competition Winners!
We are proud to announce the Year Of The Dog 3D design competition winners and runners-up. In this competition, students celebrated the Chinese New Year (Year Of The Dog) by helping Theo the dog cross a bridge with his favourite stick that is too long to fit across the bridge! Students designed an invention in...
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It’s Monster Time 3D Design Competition Winners!
We are proud to announce the It's Monster Time 3D design competition winners and runners up. In this competition students were challenged to create a Symmetrical Monster who lives in the Land of Symmetry! This was the original design challenge: There were so many wonderful design submissions - of scary, symmetical monsters. Here we announce...
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Winners of the Sail Away Challenge with Professor Garfield
We're excited to announce the winners of our recent Sail Away Challenge 3D design competition. Run in conjunction with Professor Garfield and NYIT, this international competition attracted 368 entries from around the world. The competition criteria was as follows: Professor Garfield has heard that the world’s sweetest tomatoes grow on a remote tropical island. He wants to get some of...
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New 3D Printing Design Competition: Sail Away Challenge with Professor Garfield
Makers Empire has teamed up with cartoon icon, Professor Garfield, to launch a worldwide 3D design and print STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering and Mathematics) competition for school students called The Sail Away Challenge. Competition Details Professor Garfield has heard that the world’s sweetest tomatoes grow on a remote tropical island. He wants to get some...
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Amazeballs Competition Winners
We’ve always known that Makers Empire schools are totally amazeballs and this month’s competition showed us why! We had nearly 300 tricky, creative 3D mazes that took advantage of all the great new features in our Blocker Module. Congratulations to Gwyneth Chin from Carlingford West Public School in New South Wales who is the winner of...
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New 3D Printing Design Competition: Shoebee
This month Makers Empire are challenging students to design a Shoebee, a decorative 3D printed charm that needs to attach to your shoelaces and look cool. Extra points awards to designs incorporating clever attachment mechanisms: Competition Details NO 3D PRINTER? NO WORRIES! If your classroom does not have access to a 3D printer, teachers can submit their classes'...
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Oceans of Ideas Competition Winners
Makers Empire asked for oceans of ideas for helping reduce pollution of the world’s valuable oceans and we received over 150 great ideas! We’ve seen some important reminders about keeping our oceans free of plastic pollution to ensure healthy ecosystems and protect marine life. There have also been some innovative and creative ways to address...
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New 3D Printing Design Competition: Amazeballs
This month we are challenging students to design tricky, creative mazes in 3D using our new and improved Blocker Module. The competition is open to everyone, and all you need to do is download the Makers Empire app. Step 1 - Design your maze in blocker Step 2- Enter...
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Game On Competition Winners
Makers Empire recent Game On design challenge -- where students were challenged to create a game that had some 3D components designed and printed -- attracted almost 200 entries. Well done, everyone! We’ve had a fun time looking through the designs. We’ve seen interesting takes on old favourites, great models of gaming equipment and creative new game...
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New 3D Printing Design Competition: Oceans of Good Ideas
Coinciding with World Ocean Day, this latest Makers Empire competition asks students to learn about issues related to plastic pollution of the world’s oceans. Students are challenged to design a way to reduce, reuse or recycle plastic that we use in everyday life or develop another way to reduce plastic pollution. Plastic cleaning robot Competition...
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