For the twelfth annual Drive for Design contest, Stellantis North America design staff is asking highschool college students to create their dream automobile for the 12 months 2040 utilizing inspiration from the corporate’s North American or international manufacturers.

This 12 months’s prime prize is a chance to intern this summer season within the Ram Truck design studio.

All student-created entries have to be submitted by Friday, April 12, 2024. One grand prize winner and two extra finalists might be chosen from all legitimate entries acquired.

College students, academics and oldsters can observe the competition on the Stellantis North America social media channels and study automotive design. Weekly contest updates and content material might be posted each Tuesday with the hashtag #DriveForDesign.

Prizes

Along with the summer season 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 profitable 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 staff and a scholarship to Faculty for Artistic Research’ four-week summer season program. All three winners may even be invited to be a pupil decide at this summer season’s prestigious automotive present, EyesOn Design at Ford Home, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

In regards to 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 various inventive alternatives accessible inside the automotive trade.

“We host this contest as a result of we wish to encourage younger inventive expertise and likewise enlighten mother and father concerning the many alternatives accessible inside automotive design,” stated Trostle. “Most of the previous winners have gone on to have profitable careers right here, in addition to at different firms and that’s what’s rewarding not solely to me, however our whole design staff, 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 season intern
• 2023 winner: Rocco Morales (Northville, Michigan), First highschool pupil intern

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

(Supply: Stellantis)