Fall 2023: Can Your Turkey Fly

November Design Challenge

There will be prizes awarded for the Top Three Turkey Designs. Post under #PolarTurkeyChallenge on social channels to share your designs.

To be considered for prizes, please submit all designs by the end of November. Objects will be judged November 30th.

Calling all designers! Create a 3D turkey and add it to our flock! You get to decide:

What color will your turkey be?

What shape will your turkey be?

Whether or not your turkey can FLY!

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To Enter:

• Create a turkey in Tinkercad or the design software of your choice

• Upload and Publish on the Polar Cloud under the “Contest” category

• Give your turkey a creative description, telling us whether or not it can fly, and a little backstory

• Tag your object with the name of your school

• Make sure you have joined your school! Necessary for eligibility

The 15 submissions with the most likes will be entered into the judging based on the following characteristics:

• Printability

• Design Execution

• Creativity

PRIZES:

• Grand Prize: 3 Spools of Filament for your School

• 2nd Place: 1 Spool of Filament for your School

• 3rd Place: Design Certification and Badge for your Winning Student

Fall 2022: Can Your Turkey Fly?

November Design Challenge

There will be prizes awarded for the Top Three Turkey Designs. Post under #PolarTurkeyChallenge on social channels to share your designs.

To be considered for prizes, please submit all designs by the end of November. Objects will be judged November 30th.

Calling all designers! Create a 3D turkey and add it to our flock! You get to decide:

What color will your turkey be?

What shape will your turkey be?

Whether or not your turkey can FLY!

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To Enter:

• Create a turkey in Tinkercad or the design software of your choice

• Upload and Publish on the Polar Cloud under the “Contest” category

• Give your turkey a creative description, telling us whether or not it can fly, and a little backstory

• Tag your object with the name of your school

• Make sure you have joined your school! Necessary for eligibility

The 15 submissions with the most likes will be entered into the judging based on the following characteristics:

• Printability

• Design Execution

• Creativity

PRIZES:

• Grand Prize: 3 Spools of Filament for your School

• 2nd Place: $50 donation to your School Store

• 3rd Place: $25 donation to your School Store

Caterpillar Design Challenge

WINNERS ANNOUNCED (5/23/2022)

• 1st Place:

  • Object Name: Skid Steer

  • School: Snowy Range Academy

  • Student: Hayden Donner

  • Link

• 2nd Place

  • Object Name: Cat Excavator

  • School: Eagle Valley Middle School

  • Student: Scanlen Rogers

  • Link

• 3rd Place

  • Object Name: Banana The Caterpillar

  • School: Jackson Middle School - Portland

  • Student: McKinley Fisher

  • Link

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Spring Design Challenge

A special thanks to our friends at CATERPILLAR INC. for sponsoring the Design a caterpillar Challenge! There will be prizes awarded for each type of caterpillar design category.

Caterpillar (insect)

Design our favorite fuzzy creepy crawly friends in their larvae stage and be eligible to win a Polar Cloud Enabled 3D Printer for your school. Plus $50 will be awarded to the School that has the Caterpillar (insect) design with the most likes!

Caterpillar (CAT Inc.)

Design something to do with CAT heavy machinery! A new bucket for a bulldozer that moves or picks up something specific? A new type of tread meant for better traction on a different ground surface? Get creative and be eligible to win a Polar Cloud Enabled 3D Printer for your school. Plus $50 will be awarded to the School that has the Caterpillar (CAT Inc. machinery) design with the most likes!

Step 1 Decide & Define

Which type of caterpillar will you make?

Is your caterpillar large or small? Does it have a normal circular abdomen or something else, not found in nature?

Think about the daily use of a large piece of machinery. What might make you more comfortable in farm equipment? In times like these, what might help you sanitize the cabin or door before and after use? Use your imagination.

Step 2 Design

Launch Tinkercad and start designing the type of caterpillar you chose. If you’re looking for something more powerful, keep in mind that Autodesk’s Fusion 360 is free for schools.

Step 3 Print & Iterate!

Even if you’re learning from home, you can submit a job request to your School. Work with your teacher to arrange a part pickup or virtual feedback over webcam, whatever your school decides is best.

Step 4 Publish

Share your object with the Polar Cloud Community to officially enter it into the contest!

Requirements:

• Your object has a photo or screenshot

• If you’ve made changes, the object entered is your latest design (remember that you can send directly from Tinkercad)

• Object is in the “Contest” category

• Object is tagged with “#PCCatChallenge” and your “#SchoolName”

• NEW: Add your object to your School Store, just go to the Store tab on your School’s Dashboard and click the green “Add” button. You get to choose your price!

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Looking for inspiration or need help getting started?

Check out Tinkercad’s LESSONS / PROJECTS pages.

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Prize & Deadline

Submissions: February 15 → April 15, 2022
Voting: Open Now
Grand Prize Winners announced: by May 1st, 2022

Printed on a Mosaic Palette 2S Pro and Dremel 3D45 from the Polar Cloud

Winter Challenge: Fusion360 Door Stopper

Winter Design Challenge

There will be prizes awarded for the Top Three Door Stoppers. Post under #PolarDoorstop on social channels to share your designs.

To be considered for prizes, please submit all designs by the end of November. Objects will be judged Feb 15th.

Calling all designers! Create a Door Stop and publish it for our community to use! You get to decide:

What color will your doorstop be?

What shape will your doorstop be?

What method you will use to stop all of the doors!

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To Enter:

• Create a doorstop in Autodesk’s Fusion360 or the design software of your choice

• Upload and Publish on the Polar Cloud under the “Contest” category

• Use the description field to tell us about your design process

  • Does your doorstopper fit underneath the door, wedging it in place? Or in the “hinge” or frame of the door?

  • Did you design your doorstopper to be universal, and work with many types and sizes of door? Or only the one to your bedroom, classroom, garage door, etc.

• Tag your object with the name of your school

• Make sure you have joined your school! Necessary for eligibility

The 15 submissions with the most likes will be entered into the judging based on the following characteristics:

• Printability

• Design Execution

• Creativity

PRIZES:

• Grand Prize: Polar Cloud Enabled 3D Printer awarded to your school

• 2nd Place: $50 donation to your School Store

• 3rd Place: $25 donation to your School Store

November 2021: Can Your Turkey Fly?

WINNERS ANNOUNCED (12/1/2021)

• 1st Place:

  • Object Name: Robbie The Turkey

  • School: Green County Middle School in Greensburg, KY USA

  • Student: Peyton James

  • Link

• 2nd Place

  • Object Name: Flying Turkey

  • School: Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, MA USA

  • Student: Cameron Li

  • Link

• 3rd Place

  • Object Name: Jeff the Pizza Rich Turkey

  • School: Mark Twain Elementary

  • Student: Sebastian (via Lisa V)

  • Link

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November Design Challenge

There will be prizes awarded for the Top Three Turkey Designs. Post under #PolarTurkeyChallenge on social channels to share your designs.

To be considered for prizes, please submit all designs by the end of November. Objects will be judged November 30th.

Calling all designers! Create a 3D turkey and add it to our flock! You get to decide:

What color will your turkey be?

What shape will your turkey be?

Whether or not your turkey can FLY!

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To Enter:

• Create a turkey in Tinkercad or the design software of your choice

• Upload and Publish on the Polar Cloud under the “Contest” category

• Give your turkey a creative description, telling us whether or not it can fly, and a little backstory

• Tag your object with the name of your school

• Make sure you have joined your school! Necessary for eligibility

The 15 submissions with the most likes will be entered into the judging based on the following characteristics:

• Printability

• Design Execution

• Creativity

PRIZES:

• Grand Prize: Polar Cloud Enabled 3D Printer awarded to your school

• 2nd Place: $50 donation to your School Store

• 3rd Place: $25 donation to your School Store

Jack-o-Lantern October Contest

WINNERS ANNOUNCED (11/1/2021)

• 1st Place:

  • Object Name: MonessenGreyhoundPawprintPumpkin

  • School: Monessen High School in Monessen, Pennsylvania USA

  • Student: Matthew Strine

  • Link

• 2nd Place

  • Object Name: Eye roll Jack-O-Lantern

  • School: Southridge School in Surrey, BC Canada

  • Student: Jayden Mulholland

  • Link

• 3rd Place

  • Object Name: Jack O Lantern

  • School: Program for Intellectual Empowerment in Beaverton, Oregon USA

  • Student: Zach (via Hutner Honkanen)

  • Link

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Jack O’Lantern October Contest

There will be prizes awarded for the Top Three Jack O’Lantern. Post under #PolarPumpkin on social channels to share your designs.

Use your 3D design skills to design a spooky (or friendly) Jack O’Lantern. Upload it to the Polar Cloud and share it with all the community and together we’ll create a pumpkin patch!

Design Ideas

Is your pumpkin tall and skinny or short and wide? Is it orange or white or green? Can you add room for a small LED candle? What does the stem look like? Does it have a toothless smile?

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For the Pumpkin design challenge, you will:

1. Create a jack o’ lantern in Tinkercad or your design tool of choice (Fusion360, etc.)

2. Upload and Publish on the Polar Cloud under the “Contest” category

3. Include the name of your school and what’s special about your jack o’lantern

JUDGING:

The 10 submissions with the most likes (as of November 1st) will be entered into the judging based on the following characteristics:

• Printability

• Design Execution

• Creativity

PRIZES:

• Grand Prize: Monoprice Voxel 3D Printer + 5 Mini Rolls of Orange PLA

• 2nd Place: $50 donation to your School Store + 3 Mini Rolls of Orange PLA

• 3rd Place: $25 donation to your School Store + 3 Mini Rolls of Orange PLA

Animal Kingdom Contest

Animal Kingdom

There will be prizes awarded for the Top Three Animal Kingdom Designs. Post under #PolarAnimalKingdom on social channels to share your designs.

Create or transform an animal mascot for your school into a 3D design and join our Polar Cloud Animal Kingdom!

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For the Spring Cleaning design challenge, you will:

1. Create a mascot for your school using Autodesk software (e.g., Tinkercad, Fusion360, etc.)

2. Upload and Publish on the Polar Cloud under the “Contest” category

3. Tell us about your mascot and how it represents your school

4. Tag your object with #AnimalKingdom and the name of your school

5. Here is a sample submission

JUDGING:

The 10 submissions with the most likes from at least 3 different schools will be entered into the judging based on the following characteristics:

• Printability

• Design Execution

• Creativity

PRIZES:

• Grand Prize: $100 awarded to your School

• 2nd Place: $50 awarded to your School

• 3rd Place: $25 awarded to your School

Contest ends September 30, 2021 at 23:59PM EST.

Spring Cleaning!

Spring Cleaning Challenge

There will be prizes awarded for the Top Three Spring Cleaning Designs. Post under #PolarSpringCleaning on social channels to share your designs.

The time is here! Spring Cleaning is the practice of thoroughly cleaning a house in the springtime. Do you help clean up your classroom? Maybe you have chores or help cleaning at home? Think about certain actions or cleaning activities you do that are difficult, dirty, etc. Think about what you could design and 3D Print that would make it easier or more enjoyable for you to perform these activities!

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For the Spring Cleaning design challenge, you will:

1. Brainstorm something that you clean, or something that needs cleaning, and think of a way to improve that process! What can you 3D Print that will make it better?

2. Design your prototype in Tinkercad

3. Upload and Publish on the Polar Cloud under the “Contest” category

4. Tag your object with #SpringCleaning and the name of your #School

JUDGING:

The 10 submissions with the most likes will be entered into the judging based on the following characteristics:

• Printability

• Design Execution

• Creativity

PRIZES:

• Grand Prize: A Polar Cloud Enabled 3D Printer awarded to your school

• 2nd Place: $50 donation to your School Store

• 3rd Place: $25 donation to your School Store

To learn how to use Tinkercad Codeblocks to create a snowflake, check out one of the video tutorials below.

Host a "Make" Sale!

Your School.. Open For Business!

Use the Polar Cloud to show off your best designs, get tips, sell objects, and receive donations!

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The Polar Cloud knows the insatiable desire students have to design, improve, and share their 3D prints with others. In response to this enthusiasm and the overall interest in our design contests, we launched the school store and added commerce for all 5,000+ schools on the platform.

By just being a school on the Polar Cloud - your faculty and students can get “tipped” on their designs, sell their objects, and accept donations! The school keeps 100% of the proceeds. You can use this for whatever you like - imagine seeing enough in your account to buy that next 3D Printer you’ve been waiting for!

STORE SETUP:

Information on how and why to set up a school store can be found here. If you’re adding items to your school store for the first time and have questions, please post in one of our Facebook Groups for help.

Students add items to the school store by going to their school “Dashboard”, clicking the “Store” tab, and then adding an object. It is required that they have already uploaded the object (Explore > Objects) and published it as a public object. Objects that are private cannot be listed, because that student is the only one that can view the object.

PRIZES:

Polar3D will make a matching contribution to your School Store equal to the amount you’ve raised via Tips, Sales, and Donations during the Months of February and March up to $250.

Additional prizes will be awarded to the schools with the most vibrant school homepages and school stores, set to include:

Dremel 3D45’s from the Beer Hall Mask Factory

STEM Curriculum Kits

Mosaic Palette

PLA Filament

Eligibility:

In order to be tracked, all donations must be made via the Polar Cloud and reside in the School’s Stripe account until March 31st, when they will be noted and matched.

Patterns in Nature

Winter Design Challenge

There will be prizes awarded for the Top Three Snowflake Designs. Post under #PolarSnowflakeChallenge on social channels to share your designs.

Nature is capable of creating precise, mesmerizing patterns. At this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, one of our favorites is the snowflake.

Snowflakes start as tiny hexagons as they fall through various cloud layers, with each change in temperature and humidity adding to the six arms. As the flake travels to Earth, each arm will experience the same changes, resulting in the intricate and symmetrical crystalline shapes we see.

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For the Patterns in Nature design challenge, you will:

1. Design a symmetrical snowflake using Tinkercad

2. Upload and Publish on the Polar Cloud under the “Contest” category

3. Tag your object with #GEAEP and the name of your school

JUDGING:

The 10 submissions with the most likes will be entered into the judging based on the following characteristics:

• Printability

• Design Execution

• Creativity

PRIZES:

• Grand Prize: A Polar Cloud Enabled 3D Printer awarded to your school

• 2nd Place: $50 donation to your School Store

• 3rd Place: $25 donation to your School Store

BONUS! USING CODEBLOCKS

This challenge will favor designs that are designed using Tinkercad’s Codeblocks environment. If your school has participated in Hour of Code or want to think laterally about 3D design, we highly recommend you try Codeblocks from Tinkercad. Starting a design in Codeblocks is easy, just select “Codeblocks” from the design bar on the left and then “Create new Codeblock”.

To learn how to use Tinkercad Codeblocks to create a snowflake, check out one of the video tutorials below.

If you need more help, please check out the Codeblocks Quick Start Guide on Instructables or the one dedicated entirely to Snowflakes. Starting a new Codeblock design is easy.

Can Your Turkey Fly?

November Design Challenge

There will be prizes awarded for the Top Three Turkey Designs. Post under #PolarTurkeyChallenge on social channels to share your designs.

Calling all designers! Create a 3D turkey and add it to our flock! You get to decide:

What color will your turkey be?

What shape will your turkey be?

Whether or not your turkey can FLY!

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To Enter:

• Create a turkey in Tinkercad or the design software of your choice

• Upload and Publish on the Polar Cloud under the “Contest” category

• Give your turkey a creative description, telling us whether or not it can fly, and a little backstory

• Tag your object with #GEAEP and the name of your school

The 15 submissions with the most likes will be entered into the judging based on the following characteristics:

• Printability

• Design Execution

• Creativity

PRIZES:

• Grand Prize: Polar Cloud Enabled 3D Printer awarded to your school

• 2nd Place: $100 donation to your School Store

• 3rd Place: $50 donation to your School Store

Caterpillar Design Challenge

Fall Design Challenge

A special thanks to our friends at CATERPILLAR INC. for sponsoring the Design a caterpillar Challenge! There will be prizes awarded for each type of caterpillar design category. Post under #PCCatChallenge on social channels to share your designs.

Caterpillar (insect)

Design our favorite fuzzy creepy crawly friends in their larvae stage and win a Polar Cloud Enabled 3D Printer for your school!

Plus $100 will be donated to the School Store that has the Caterpillar (insect) design with the most likes!

Caterpillar (CAT Inc.)

Design something to do with CAT heavy machinery! A new bucket for a bulldozer that moves or picks up something specific? A new type of tread meant for better traction on a different ground surface? Get creative and win a Polar Cloud Enabled 3D Printer for your school!

Plus $100 will be donated to the School Store that has the Caterpillar (CAT Inc. machinery) design with the most likes!

Step 1 Decide & Define

Which type of caterpillar will you make?

Is your caterpillar large or small? Does it have a normal circular abdomen or something else, not found in nature?

Think about the daily use of a large piece of machinery. What might make you more comfortable in farm equipment? In times like these, what might help you sanitize the cabin or door before and after use? Use your imagination.

Step 2 Design

Launch Tinkercad and start designing the type of caterpillar you chose. If you’re looking for something more powerful, keep in mind that Autodesk’s Fusion 360 is free for schools.

Step 3 Print & Iterate!

Even if you’re learning from home, you can submit a job request to your School. Work with your teacher to arrange a part pickup or virtual feedback over webcam, whatever your school decides is best.

Step 4 Publish

Share your object with the Polar Cloud Community to officially enter it into the contest!

Requirements:

• Your object has a photo or screenshot

• If you’ve made changes, the object entered is your latest design (remember that you can send directly from Tinkercad)

• Object is in the “Contest” category

• Object is tagged with “#PCCatChallenge” and your “#SchoolName”

• NEW: Add your object to your School Store, just go to the Store tab on your School’s Dashboard and click the green “Add” button. You get to choose your price!

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Looking for inspiration or need help getting started?

Check out Tinkercad’s LESSONS / PROJECTS pages.

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Prize & Deadline

The winners will have their best work featured in the Polar Cloud newsletter and shared with 500,000+ other makers from around the world including employees from Caterpillar and other great companies like GE, Google and Facebook. The winner’s schools will also be invited to join the Additive Education Program for the remainder of the 2020-2021 School Year.

Submissions: September 14 → October 31, 2020
Voting: Open Now
Grand Prize Winners announced: November 6, 2020

Printed on a Mosaic Palette 2S Pro and Dremel 3D45 from the Polar Cloud

Patterns in Nature

Nature is capable of creating precise, mesmerizing patterns. At this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, one of our favorites is the snowflake.

Snowflakes start as tiny hexagons as they fall through various cloud layers, with each change in temperature and humidity adding to the six arms. As the flake travels to Earth, each arm will experience the same changes, resulting in the intricate and symmetrical crystalline shapes we see.

For the Patterns in Nature design challenge, you will:

1. Design a symmetrical snowflake using the design tool of your choice (Tinkercad, BlocksCAD, Makers Empire, etc)

2. Upload your model to the Polar Cloud with Pattern Challenge in the title and share it with the public

3. Winners will be chosen from the uploaded objects after January 31st, 2019

Selected schools will win a Monoprice Voxel 3D printer! The challenge is open for all participating GE Additive Education Program schools.

DESIGNING A SNOWFLAKE

To create our own symmetrical snowflakes, start by designing a single arm and copy it until you have 6 matching arms, creating the well known hex pattern. We’ll be showing you how to do this using Scratch based programming through BlocksCAD! If your school has participated in Hour of Code or want to think laterally about 3D design, we highly recommend you try BlocksCAD.

To learn how to use BlocksCAD to create a snowflake, check out our tutorial video below.