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:
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What problem does your design idea solve?
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What are the potential benefits?
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How is your idea novel or an improvement on what is currently available in the marketplace?
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Where would this idea be applied?
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What is the market potential?
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How does your design work?
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How would your product be manufactured?
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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
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Automating tedious tasks
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Preventing or reducing injuries
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Saving lives
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Improving public safety and security
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Saving time and money
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Offering alternative energy solutions
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Reducing consumption of natural resources
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Reducing waste
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Bolstering the economy
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Enabling other product improvements
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TOP TIPS
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1. Accompany your entry with an illustration.
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2. Your description should be of sufficient length to describe how the invention works.
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If it is only a few sentences, chances are it’s too short.
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3. What makes it novel?
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4. How it would be produced?
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5. Where it would be applied?
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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.