For the twelfth annual Drive for Design contest, Stellantis North America design workforce is asking highschool college students to create their dream automobile for the yr 2040 utilizing inspiration from the corporate’s North American or world manufacturers.

This yr’s prime prize is a chance to intern this summer time within the Ram Truck design studio.

All student-created entries should be submitted by Friday, April 12, 2024. One grand prize winner and two further finalists will likely be chosen from all legitimate entries acquired.

College students, lecturers and oldsters can comply with the competition on the Stellantis North America social media channels and find out about automotive design. Weekly contest updates and content material will likely be posted each Tuesday with the hashtag #DriveForDesign.

Prizes

Along with the summer time designer internship within the Ram Truck Exterior Design Studio, the grand prize winner may even obtain a Wacom MobileStudio Professional 16 pill and have their successful sketch featured on the Stellantis North America social media platforms.

Prizes for the second- and third-place finishers embody an Apple iPad Professional and Apple Pencil, digital portfolio evaluation with members of the Stellantis design workforce and a scholarship to Faculty for Inventive Research’ four-week summer time program. All three winners may even be invited to be a pupil choose at this summer time’s prestigious automobile present, EyesOn Design at Ford Home, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Concerning the Contest

Drive for Design is powered by the eagerness of Mark Trostle, vice chairman, Ram Truck and Mopar design, who gained one of many program’s early iterations as a excessive schooler in 1987. Since bringing again the competition in 2012, it has highlighted the trail to a profession in automotive design and illustrated the numerous inventive alternatives obtainable inside the automotive business.

“We host this contest as a result of we wish to encourage younger inventive expertise and in addition enlighten mother and father concerning the many alternatives obtainable inside automotive design,” stated Trostle. “Most of the previous winners have gone on to have profitable careers right here, in addition to at different corporations and that’s what’s rewarding not solely to me, however our total design workforce, and it drives us to proceed on annually.”

Notable Drive for Design winners:

• 2014 winner: Alex Fischer (Rochester, Michigan), former intern
• 2015 winner: Dongwon Kim (Cupertino, California), Superior Design Studio worker
• 2015 winner: Josh Blundo (Moultonborough, New Hampshire), former intern
• 2016 winner: Ben Treinen (Loveland, Ohio), Ram Truck Inside Design Studio worker
• 2019 winner: Max Cooper (Miami, Florida), former intern
• 2020 winner: Job Skandera (Santa Rosa, California), former intern
• 2021 winner: Vincent Piaskowski (Birmingham, Michigan), 2024 summer time intern
• 2023 winner: Rocco Morales (Northville, Michigan), First highschool pupil intern

For detailed contest guidelines, data on how one can submit sketches and free sources for college kids of all ages, go to StellantisDriveForDesign.com.

(Supply: Stellantis)