Engineering students worldwide recognised for innovative designs

FRANKFURT - 11th April 2012 - Dimension 3D Printing, a brand of Stratasys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSYS), today announced the winners in its eighth annual Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge. The global contest encourages students to submit an innovative product design, a redesign of an existing product, or an original work of art or architecture.

Dimension 3D Printing is awarding each of three student winners $2,500 (approx. £1,630) or $1000 (approx. £650) scholarships in the categories of Middle and High School Engineering, College Engineering, and Art & Architecture. A list of winners follows. For full descriptions and supporting artwork of designs, visit www.DimensionPrinting.com/extremeredesign

Designs are awarded based on creativity, usefulness, part integrity and aesthetics. Instructors of the three first-place student winners will receive an Apple iPad for use in the classroom. With this year’s awards, the contest will exceed the $100,000 (approx. £65,000) mark in scholarships granted since the contest’s inception. This year’s contest also features a bonus award category: Students who incorporated a school-spirit theme into their designs competed for a $250 (approx. £160) gift card.

College Engineering Category
Rank:

    Continuous water supply hand pump: Akshay Gautam & Gauray Singh, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing - Jabalpur, India

    Diabetic Testing Station: Zahraa Bazzi, Abrar Wazier, Stanley Marek, Wayne State University - Dearborn MI

    Scissors for right and left-handed Users: Isabell Boqvist, Luleå University of Technology - Luleå, Sweden

Art & Architecture Category
Rank:

    Desert Rose  Kyle Whybrew, University of Central Florida - Grant, FL

    Community Library  Alex Tseng, Rice University - Houston, TX

    Green Art  Cristina-Maria Agape & Robert-Sebastian Dron, Palatul Copiilor si Elevilor Drobeta Turnu Severin - Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania

Middle/High School Engineering Category
Rank:

    Pro Sump  Nicholas Pio, Warren High School - Downey, CA

    Diagonal Slice Rubik’s Cube  Quentin Torgerson, Mars Area High School - Mars, PA

    Sand/Salt Spreader  Erik Fredrickson, Kingswood Regional High School - Wolfeboro, NH

Bonus Category: School Spirit

    Tigre’s Bot  Tyler Kilgore, Mansfield Sr. High School - Mansfield, OH

    Beer Stein Redesign  Joseph Huser, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, OK

Winners were selected by a distinguished panel of independent judges from industry and the engineering media. This year's judges are David Mantey, Editor at Product Design & Development magazine, Ian Kovacevich, VP of Engineering at Enventys, LLC, Patrick Gannon, Engineering Manager at rp+m (a Thogus partner), and Todd Grimm, Editor at Engineering.com.

For full descriptions and supporting artwork of designs, visit: www.DimensionPrinting.com/extremeredesign