Student Design CONTEST

PRIZES

First Place - $500 Second Place - $250

A limited number of students (exact number to be determined) will be accepted for a summer internship in Spring Creek, NC. During this internship they will help move their design to production and also train the local workforce to manufacture their product. Other: Internship gives student the opportunity to help complete the product and participate in the product release and launch. 2 year commission on any products that go to market within 2 years of the submission date (even if they are not a First or Second Place winner). 2 year period where the designer is featured in an About the Designer section on the Montie Gear website in the product information.

Montie Design is hosting a student design contest for Winter 2012. Students who participate are tasked with the mission of designing a new product for the Montie Gear line of outdoor, camping, shooting, hunting, and archery products. Montie Gear products have the byline of Heirloom Quality Tested Troublesome Gap Tough. These products share the traits of being extremely high quality, high performance, long life and very portable. The existing products are mostly fabricated from flat aluminum sheets with a water jet process and

then powder coated. Many of the Montie Gear products are 100% American Made. We would like to explore the use of additional materials in this contest, including textiles. Especially materials that we can easily and sustainably use in the manufacturing process at our upcoming Spring Creek, NC location. Successful products can then translate into jobs for the local population of Spring Creek.

Montie Design

100 Dominion Dr., Suite 101, Morrisville, NC 27560

montie@montie.com

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CONTEST STAGES:
Stage 1 - Contest open to students in community college, 4 year college or high school. Stage 2 - Winners are invited to work with Montie Design staff to spend the next 60 days refining their prototypes. Stage 3 - Winning students may be invited to spend the summer in Spring Creek, NC putting their products into production and teaching local employees how to make them. This paid intership will be a great way to kick off a career.

Portable equipment that uses the trunk of trees in your campsite as the central structural support for kitchen, storage, or camping comfort/productivity aids. Background: Most people enjoy being outdoors. Many people avoid camping because of the following pain points. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) unpredictable weather difficulty getting a good nights sleep without being uncomfortable how much work it is to cook and clean up continual need to organize equipment and supplies at the site difficulty washing hands or body and personal grooming how much work it takes to clean up from and get ready to go camping

CONTEST FOCUS

Campers (especially on the East coast of the US) often find themselves camping under a canopy of trees. Lets put those trees to use in a way that makes camping fun and easier.

Develop next generation Montie Gear products that make cooking, washing or equipment storage / organization easier with a suggested concentration on kitchen / cooking, food prep, storage and eating areas. Bathing, shower and shelter products are other appropriate areas of focus. Spring Creek currently has no manufacturing. One goal of this project is to design products that we can transition into manufacturing jobs for the local population.

CONTEST GOALS

JUDGING CRITERIA ` 1) Does it compliment the existing Montie Gear product line? 2) Does it use existing trees in the campsite (non-destructively) to provide the main structure or support? 3) Does it provide work surfaces, storage, oragnization or other creative and needed fuctions to make camping safer, easier, less work and fun? 4) Bonus points are awarded for providing functionality and ease-of-use that is appropriate for emergency situation, emergency preparedness or disaster response. 5) Is this product easy to produce with low capital expense and high sustainability in a remote location in Western North Carolina(Spring Creek, NC - www.visitspringcreek.com)?

RULES:
1) Construction Methods - Product must be designed to use any combination of the following construction methods or materials: a) b) c) d) 2D water jet cutting manual or CNC machining cut and sew for soft goods materials: fabric or other textile, aluminum, stainless steel or other non-corroding / rust / sunlight resistant material that is approriate for outdoor use

2) Context / Use - The best description is something you might nd at REI, Bass Pro Shops, Cabellas or Brownells. The product should either have an outdoor or shooting-related use. The context can be camping, shooting, archery, tactical, backpacking, hiking, picnic, shooting outdoor sports, hunting product, photography, or other outdoor activity. Products must help make camping easier or more enjoyable. 3) Initial submissions (Step 1) are due on Feb 1, 2012 at 5:00PM. Final submissions (Step 2) are due on Feb 29, 2012 at 5:00PM. 4) Entries accepted from students enrolled in NC or VA schools only. 5) Entries must comform to the concept of the Heirloom Quality / Troublesome Gap Tough.

ENTRY PROCESS:
Step 1 - Submit one paragraph description of basic product concept by mail to Montie Design, 100 Dominion Dr., Suite 101, Morrisville, NC 27560 or by email to montie@montie.com before 5:00PM on Feb 1, 2012. This step helps us to make sure that your submission is not in conflict with a product concept that we are already working on. A successful Step 1 submission is required to be eligible for submitting your design for Step 2. Step 2 - final submission due on Feb 29, 2012 at 5:00PM EST. Visit the Montie Design website (www. montie.com/contest) for guidelines on final submission formats and expectations. Contact montie@montie.com with any questions.

COMPANY DESIGN PHILOSOPHY AND PRODUCTS:

Visit the Montie Gear website (www.montiegear.com) for more information regarding the Montie Design philosophy and for examples of products that we have developed.

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