DSL DESIGN ACADEMY 2023
Electronic design competition
DSL Design Academy 2023 Awards Announced
An innovative home recycling crusher that compacts your recyclable waste was the winning concept at DSL’s very first Design Academy awards.
The idea was the handiwork of 15-year-old Jemima of St Francis’ College in Letchworth who won an iPad for herself and £500 of design and technology equipment for her school, to better equip the next generation of engineers.
DSL DESIGN
ACADEMY
2023
Electronic products are a big part of our everyday life, whether it be TVs, Amazon Alexa or phones. Show us your ideas for a chance to win an iPad and equipment for your school!
DSL specialise in electronic product design and are based in Letchworth Garden City.
We are running the DSL Design academy competition 2023 which is open to all age groups and will be focused on identifying a new electronic product that could potentially be designed by DSL.
To sign your school up for the competition please email [email protected].
Application submission
All participants will be required to fill in an application form outlining their product design idea. Participants can add diagrams and drawings to the form to help show their design.
The winner will receive an iPad and their represented school or college will receive equipment for the design technology department up to the value of £500.
Judging process
This stage will involve a panel of judges from DSL who will individually mark each application submitted. All applications will be thoroughly assessed.
Final Event
The ten best entries will get invited to a finals evening where each finalist will be asked to present their idea and the winner will be announced.
DATES TO
REMEMBER
ALL ENTRIES IN – 17th February 2023
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED – 1st March 2023
FINAL (LOCATION/TIME TBC) – April 2023
HOW DO I SUBMIT MY ENTRY?
To enter simply fill out a DSL design academy product idea form.
You will need to give detailed descriptions answering the following:
Name, School, Age
About your product idea:
- What your product idea is?
- How would your product work?
- What would your product be used for?
- Why have you come up with this idea?
You can also include and diagrams/drawings of your product idea and make it as creative as you like!
Each form needs to be filled out in full for it to be entered.
THE FINAL
Finalists will be asked to present their idea to a panel of judges from DSL.
Each finalist will be asked to explain the following;
- What your idea is.
- How it would work.
- What it would be used for.
Each finalist can present this however they like
The winning design will be judged on
Originality
Feasibility
Thoroughness of design entry
Detail of explanation
PAST INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
Morton Heilig
Virtual reality
Thomas Edison
The Light bulb
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Martin Cooper
Mobile phone
Nikola Tesla
Remote Control
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Tim-Berners Lee
The Internet
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
DSL’S DESIGN ACADEMY
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
By entering this competition you are agreeing to these product design competition terms and conditions.
COMPETITION RULES
1. The competition is being run by Datasound Laboratories Ltd to design an electronic product.
ELIGIBILITY TO ENTER
2. The competition is open to entrants who are students.
3. A maximum of one entry per individual.
4. This competition is free to enter.
HOW TO ENTER
5. To enter the competition simply fill out a printed product design competition form and we will collect it from your school on the closing date.
6. Datasound Laboratories Ltd will not accept responsibility if contact details provided are incomplete or inaccurate. Which could affect an entrants chance of progressing.
THE PRIZE
7. The prize will be an iPad to the individual winner and equipment for the engineering/design tech department
to the winner’s school/college.
8. The winning design will be judged on originality, feasibility, thoroughness of design entry, detail of explanation and the concept of the design.
9. The prize is non-exchangeable, non-transferable and no alternatives will be offered.
10. We reserve the right to substitute prizes with another prize of equal or higher value if circumstances beyond our control make it necessary to do so.
WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT
11. The Product design competition entries will be judged (date, venue and time tbc) and the finalists will be invited to present their design and the winner will be announced that night.
12. The winner will be notified after each finalist has presented their design.
13. Please allow 14 days for delivery of the prize or alternative collection or delivery arrangements may be made through mutual agreement.
DATA PROTECTION AND PUBLICITY
14. You consent to any personal information you provide in entering the prize draw being used by Datasound Laboratories for the purposes of administering the competition.
15. The winner agrees to the release of their name and school to any other prize draw Participants.
16. Each finalists name and school will be announced at the presentation evening.
17. Datasound Laboratories ltd does not accept any liability for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered by any entrants as a result of either participating in the competition or being selected as winner.
18. The winning design may or may not be designed by DSL depending on feasibility.
GENERAL
19. Datasound Laboratories reserves the right to cancel the prize draw or amend these terms and conditions at any time, without prior notice.
20. The competition and these terms and conditions will be governed by English law and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.