Are you ready for the
Iron Lion
Design Challenge
Get ready for an interactive 3-day long design challenge that will test your creative, technical, and professional abilities while connecting you with current and future leaders in engineering design.
We get it, everyone is all “zoomed” out, so why participate in a virtual engineering hackathon?
Build Something Cool
Expand your resume and your portfolio and build an amazing product in 3 short days. We’ll provide you with the materials!
Learn from Experts
Top experts in product design will be joining us throughout the challenge and offering insights into groundbreaking research.
Win Cool Stuff
We have some pretty sweet top prizes for teams or individuals that design the coolest thing. The design challenge is a secret for now, but stay tuned!
What to expect
Your design challenge will begin 10:00am E.D.T. July 28 and will conclude with team pitches July 30 at 12:00pm. Prior to the challenge we will be shipping each participant unique prototyping kits to enable a hands-on design experience. You will work as a team to solve the mystery challenge (to be announced at the start of the program) and pitch your final solution to the judges. Our panel of judges will select winners based on creativity of design solutions, technical feasibility, and quality of pitch. Stay tuned for the full schedule of events!
- 10:30am Project Kickoff
- 12:00pm Design Decision Making with Dr. Kosa Goucher-Lambert
- 4:00pm Design Thinking with Dr. Carlye Lauff
- 10:30am Prototyping and Testing
- 12:00pm Pitching your work and yourself
- 4:00pm Designing your life
- 12:00pm Project Pitches
What’s at stake
Compete to win rad prizes.
Iron Lion
The team with the best solution to the challenge will be crowned our Iron Lions. The winning team will receive a $100 gift card (each) and a pretty sweet trophy, plus some awesome Learning Factory swag.
Craziest Idea
The winning teams’ idea may not be physically possible given the constraints of modern science, but it is by far the most creative. This team will receive a 3D printing pen (each) to continue creating wild ideas.
Best Pitch
Communication is a critical part of engineering. The winning team will receive a $25 gift card (each) to Amazon.
Interested in attending?
register below
You can register as either an individual or a team. Please note if you are located outside of the U.S. please register no later than July 11th to receive materials in time for the challenge. Registration limited to first 50 participants.