Tips for Entrants

 

The best entries clearly and concisely answer all of the following questions and are accompanied by an illustration that complements and illuminates the text:

 

• What problem does your design idea solve?

• What are the potential benefits?

• How is your idea novel or an improvement on what is currently available in the marketplace?

• Where would this idea be applied?

• What is the market potential?

• How does your design work?

• How would your product be manufactured?

• How would the production cost compare with products already in the marketplace.

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• The best design ideas will serve a public good by:

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• Improving quality of life

• Automating tedious tasks

• Preventing or reducing injuries

• Saving lives

• Improving public safety and security

• Saving time and money

• Offering alternative energy solutions

• Reducing consumption of natural resources

• Reducing waste

• Bolstering the economy

• Enabling other product improvements

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• TOP TIPS

• 1.  Accompany your entry with an illustration.

• 2.  Your description should be of sufficient length to describe how the invention works.

•      If it is only a few sentences, chances are it’s too short.

• 3.  What makes it novel?

• 4.  How it would be produced?

• 5.  Where it would be applied?

• 6.  Submit illustrations in an acceptable file type, such as PDF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, not Word or PowerPoint documents. Limit text on illustrations to captions or call-outs.