Overview

For this year’s #AutodeskMakeItReal student design challenge, New England football star James Develin needs your help designing a new gym he’s planning to build. Because this is an architecture, engineering, and construction project, this year’s theme is Make It Big.

#AutodeskMakeItReal is comprised of three different challenges!
Visit this page to learn about the current contest, which is the third in the series.

If you’re a student between the ages of 13-19, we want to see your big ideas for gym designs that help James Develin tell his story. James is reimagining and designing a flexible gym space that promotes health and wellness for athletes, like him, who are recovering from serious injuries. Your designs need to be submitted as an Instructables guide, presenting and explaining a clear visual depiction of your concept. Document the stages of your design process and pretend that you’re pitching an idea to stakeholders.

Your Instructable needs to include both images and text. Designs should be created using an Autodesk product, such as Tinkercad, Fusion 360, FormIt, AutoCAD, and/or Revit.

To get a sense of the kind of gym James Develin wants to build we strongly encourage you to enroll in the second webinar of our free webinar series where James will share his vision and early sketches. The first webinar takes place on Dec 3, 2020 at 7:00 pm, Eastern. Recordings of each webinar will be made available on this YouTube playlist when they become available. For more information about what grand prize winners can win with their gift card, please visit this CDW prize gallery.



Submissions will be judged on the following criteria:
• Technical Skills - How well does the student product demonstrate 3D digital literacy?
• Innovation - How imaginatively does the student address the constraints of designing a gym in the COVID era? How interesting, cool, and/or surprising is the design? How well does it show creativity, cleverness, and simplicity in consideration of form and function?
• Design Thinking - How effectively does the student product address a real and specific problem that is relevant to James’s vision? How insightfully does it demonstrate an understanding of the needs and goals of the potential end users? How evident is it that the designer has used an iterative process?
• Presentation - How compellingly does the student product tell a story that is relevant to James’s vision? How well does it highlight visual elements, principles of design, and an insight into the architectural process (renderings, exploded views, sectioned views, walkthroughs)?

In addition to the webinar recording, you may also find these additional resources helpful in completing this challenge:

Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, D.C. and Canada, 13-19 years old and enrolled in a primary, secondary or home school at the time of entry. Contest is open from 12:00 a.m. PT on 12/4/20 until 11:59 P.m. PT on 1/31/21. Thirteen (13) prizes will be awarded. Limit one (1) prize per person. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

The Make it Real Student Design Challenge is closed.