Create the Future Design Contest

03/12/2026

📢 The 2026 Create the Future Design Contest is now open for entries! Submit your game-changing new product ideas in one of the seven categories listed below for a chance at the $25,000 grand prize:

🚀 Aerospace & Defense
🚗 Automotive/Transportation
🔌 Electronics
🔋 Energy, Power & Propulsion
🛠️ Manufacturing & Materials
🔬 Medical
🤖 Robotics & Automation

Get started today: https://ow.ly/MUML50YsQtJ

11/19/2025

🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Create the Future Design Contest Winners! 🎉

Earlier this month we gathered a brilliant group of innovators in New York City to present their innovations to a panel of expert judges.

At the conclusion of the presentations, the 2025 Grand Prize was awarded to Imersiv, a groundbreaking D-to-A conversion architecture that improves audio performance by 100x compared to today’s best audio equipment. The technology can be utilized in a range of applications, from sound engineering to space missions to medical imaging.

First-place winners were also awarded in each of the contest categories:

🛰️ Aerospace & Defense
Silent Sentry: A software-defined passive sensor for counter-stealth and battlefield survivability.

🚗 Automotive & Transportation
NOxZero™: Making diesel engines nearly emission-free.

💡Electronics
Plastalyst: Recycling organic and plastic waste into chemicals.

⚡️Energy, Power & Propulsion
Rev Force – Ultra-efficient hydrogen combustion platform for clean, distributed power.

⚙️ Manufacturing & Materials
REACT®: Automated capsule recycling for a circular coffee industry.

🩺 Medical
Blood Viscosity: The Next Vital Sign – a wearable designed for trauma, sepsis, and vascular health.

🤖 Robotics & Automation
Woodpeckr – A semi-autonomous robot to revolutionize utility installation.

Learn more about each of our winners here: https://ow.ly/mZJ550XugLp

07/07/2025

There are still a few hours left to enter the Create the Future Design Contest!

Don't miss this final chance to submit your most innovative product ideas and help shape a better tomorrow, today.

➡️ https://ow.ly/JhT950WlGR2

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07/02/2025

📣 Good news, innovators!

The deadline for the Create the Future Design Contest has been extended to July 7.

This is your chance to turn your big idea into a global success story and win $25,000.

➡️ Enter now:

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06/30/2025

Final call for engineers and innovators!

The deadline to enter the Create the Future Design Contest is TOMORROW, July 1. Submit your entry now for a chance to win $25k.

➡️ https://ow.ly/EPA150WiEHX

06/27/2025

The deadline to enter the 2025 Create the Future Design Contest is July 1. Have you submitted your innovative idea?

Don’t miss your chance to turn your dream into a reality and win the $25,000 grand prize!

Submit your design idea now: https://ow.ly/JNwl50Wh8jA

06/13/2025

🌍 Big ideas deserve a big stage.

Submit your entry in the 2025 Create the Future Design Contest to compete for a $25,000 grand prize and global recognition!

Your concept could inspire real change. Enter now:

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06/04/2025

📢 There are just a few weeks left to enter the 2025 Create the Future Design Contest!

Submit your entry in one of the following categories for a chance to win $25,000:
• Aerospace & Defense
• Automotive/Transportation
• Electronics
• Energy, Power & Propulsion
• Manufacturing & Materials
• Medical
• Robotics & Automation

🗓️ Deadline is July 1. Enter now:

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05/14/2025

Do you have a big idea? Follow these steps to enter the Create the Future Design Contest!

✅ Choose from one of seven categories
✅ Provide a 500 word description of your entry
✅ Include a visual illustration
✅ Submit online — that's it!

🏆 You could win $25,000 and global recognition.

Enter before July 1 ➡️ https://ow.ly/t4Qn50VSElC

04/15/2025

🚀 The 2025 Create the Future Design Contest is open for entries!

Engineers, innovators, and dreamers — it’s your time to shine. Submit your groundbreaking ideas that could shape the future of technology.

💡 Enter now for a chance to win the $25,000 grand prize!

📅 Deadline: July 1, 2025
🔗 Enter here:

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11/27/2024

The Create the Future Design Contest — sponsored by COMSOL Multiphysics, Mouser Electronics, and presented by SAE Media Group — has helped bring out the best technologies for the future throughout its 22-year run.

On November 15, we welcomed finalists from each of the seven contest categories to New York City, where they pitched their ideas to a panel of judges.

At the conclusion of the presentations, the 2024 Grand Prize was awarded to NETrolyze — A Novel Immunotherapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. NETrolyze consists of a small molecule loaded into a slow-release gel, designed to continuously fight off metastasis. It systematically targets only the cancerous tumor while preserving the integrity of the body’s overall immune system.

Congratulations to NETrolyze and all of our category winners!

Learn more here: https://ow.ly/p87150Ugmtk