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CGTrader.com Invites 3D Designers To Challenge Santa Claus
Vilnius, Lithuania (PRWEB) November 28, 2013
The fast-growing marketplace, which recently announced a 3D printing partnership with Sculpteo, is increasing its 3D printing ambitions. This time CGTrader is challenging the idea of gift-giving itself. Designers are invited to join Christmas 3D Printing Challenge and create 3D models that could be 3D printed and become great gifts or decorations for the forthcoming holiday.
The authors of the best Christmas model and the best Christmas portfolio will get magnificent gifts as well. Each of them will be awarded with 500 USD from CGTrader and Filabot Wee for making 3D printer filament. The runner-ups will also be awarded with valuable prizes – which include filaments for 3D printers from Colorfabb, gift cards from Sculpteo, filaments and promotional features from Kentstrapper and 3D printing service at 3D Print UK.
“Christmas is a special time of the year for a lot of people. As the world of manufacturing is changing, we think that giving 3D printable gifts instead of having a nightmare of Christmas rush in a supermarket will become a standard practice. We would like to encourage our designer community to participate in this trend and create outstanding Christmas gifts and decorations,“ says Marius Kalytis, CEO of CGTrader.com.
CGTrader is currently running another challenge for 3D designers as well – the 3D Architecture Challenge, which looks for the best architectural 3D designs in the market. There were some ambitious and notorious 3D modeling challenges on this marketplace earlier. One of them was Staples 3D Printing Challenge, which was used to define the best 3D print-ready model which could be printed out of paper.
About CGTrader.com:
The community-based 3D model marketplace CGTrader.com was founded in 2011. CGTrader has been built with the vision of democratizing the 3D modeling and 3D design market. This approach has attracted investors and in early 2013 CGTrader raised 185,000 EUR from venture capital fund Practica Capital. There are more than 42,000 3D models uploaded to the digital library and more than 26,500 registered users, uniting 3D modeling professionals from all around the world.
Knight News Challenge Lightning Talk – The Tiziano Project
The Tiziano Project Executive Director, Jon Vidar, gives a three-minute lightning talk at the MIT Civic Media Conference. On June 22, 2011, a 0000 Knight News Challenge grant was awarded to the organization to develop technology that will promote citizen journalism around the world.
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NASA Public Affairs Officer Kylie Clem interviews Mike Horkachuck, NASA’s Project Executive for SpaceX, about the progress and milestones leading up to the launch of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Questions? Ask us on Twitter @NASA_Johnson and include the hashtag #askStation. For the latest news about the space station, visit www.nasa.gov
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Public is Invited to Use Web, iPhone and Android Apps as Part of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Geo Inventory Challenge
Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) February 08, 2012
Azavea, an award-winning geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, announces a crowd-sourcing contest to locate automated external defibrillators (AED) and the release of a web application and two free mobile apps, part of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvanias MyHeartMap Challenge. The applications are now available for the public to participate in the MyHeartMap Challenge which will run for six weeks from January 31 to Tuesday, March 13. In an effort to build a national database of AEDs and increase AED awareness, the Penn Medicines MyHeartMap is turning to the public to gather as much information as possible about AEDs accessible to the public.
Though almost non-existent a decade ago, automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) are now all around us, in airports, schools, gyms, and workplaces. These devices can save lives as they deliver electric shocks to victims of cardiac arrests. This is most effective in the first minutes after someone collapses. Yet, there is no comprehensive map of such devices available to the public. As a result, AEDs are often not used when they are most needed either because witnesses of a cardiac arrest incident do not know there might be an AED close by or that they should be looking for one.
The Penn Medicine MyHeartMap team is initiating the MyHeartMap Challenge project by encouraging the public, armed with the web and mobile applications built by Azavea, to locate and photograph as many AEDs in Philadelphia as possible. Both the apps and participation in the contest are free. Participants will be able to geocode their photos via the mobile app available on the iPhone or Android — and register information about the AEDs such as manufacturer and condition of the device. In addition to the mobile apps, participants can enter data and check their status in the contest at the MyHeartMap website: http://philly.myheartmap.org/.
MyHeartMap Challenge participants can register as individuals or as teams. The individual or team that will find the most AEDs will win $ 10,000. Other participants will win $ 50 if they are the first to identify one of the designated golden AEDs. The MyHeartMap team is being coy about the precise number of golden AEDs, but has announced that there will be 20 to 200 of them. The data collected will be used to create an updated database of locations of all public AEDs in the Philadelphia region with a person’s GPS coordinates to help them locate the nearest AED during an emergency. The project is part of a larger ongoing collaboration between faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washington and is modeled after the DARPA Network Challenge, a crowd-sourcing experiment in which social media users raced to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations throughout the United States. It is the teams hope that this challenge will lead to a nation-wide contest.
The MyHeartMap Challenge project is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Physio Control; the Medtronic Foundation; the HeartRescue Project; Zoll; Cardiac Science; Philips and the University of Pennsylvania.
For more information about the MyHeartMap Challenge, visit: http://www.myheartmap.org. Participants can use a web application available at: http://philly.myheartmap.org/ The smart phone apps can also be downloaded for free for the iPhone at http://itunes.apple.com/app/id492442372?mt=8 and from the Android Marketplace at https://market.android.com/details?id=edu.upenn.medicine.myheartmap.
About Azavea – Azavea is an award-winning geospatial analysis (GIS) software development firm specializing in the creation of location-based web and mobile software as well as geospatial analysis services. Azavea is a certified B Corporation that applies geographic data and technology to promote the emergence of more dynamic, vibrant, and sustainable communities. Each of Azaveas projects, products and pro bono engagements showcases this commitment. Find more at http://www.azavea.com.
If you would like more information about Azavea or to schedule an interview with Robert Cheetham, Azavea CEO and President, please contact Amy Trahey at (215) 558 6184 or e-mail atrahey(at)azavea(dot)com.
About MyHeartMap Challenge The Philadelphia MyHeartMap Challenge is the first of many city Challenges, followed by a nation-wide contest. Data collected for the contest will be used for a U-Penn research study evaluating AED mapping and database development. It is the initiative of a group of health professionals dedicated to saving lives and expanding the horizons of theory and practicethis interdisciplinary team has come together to engage and challenge the Philadelphia community to improve access to critical life-saving technologies. By harnessing the increasing reach of new media they hope to bring innovation to address an important public health disparity. Find more at http://www.myheartmap.org
For more information about the MyHeartMap Challenge, contact the team at myheartmapchallenge(at)uphs(dot)upenn(dot)edu
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Minted Announces the Guest Judges Awards from their First-Ever Art Print Challenge
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 25, 2012
Minted (http://www.minted.com), the global design community and e-commerce site, today announces the guest judges awards from their first-ever Art Print Challenge. All the designs chosen by the well-known d