For the twelfth annual Drive for Design contest, Stellantis North America design workforce is asking highschool college students to create their dream car for the 12 months 2040 utilizing inspiration from the corporate’s North American or world 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 should be submitted by Friday, April 12, 2024. One grand prize winner and two further finalists shall be chosen from all legitimate entries obtained.

College students, academics and fogeys can comply with the competition on the Stellantis North America social media channels and study automotive design. Weekly contest updates and content material shall 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 will 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 embrace an Apple iPad Professional and Apple Pencil, digital portfolio evaluate with members of the Stellantis design workforce and a scholarship to Faculty for Artistic Research’ four-week summer season program. All three winners will even be invited to be a scholar 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 fervour of Mark Trostle, vice chairman, Ram Truck and Mopar design, who received 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 artistic alternatives accessible throughout the automotive business.

“We host this contest as a result of we wish to encourage younger artistic expertise and in addition enlighten mother and father concerning the many alternatives accessible inside automotive design,” mentioned Trostle. “Lots 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 season intern
• 2023 winner: Rocco Morales (Northville, Michigan), First highschool scholar intern

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

(Supply: Stellantis)