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Design Challenges

Design Challenges are at the core of what makes DDS Special. Design Challenges provide a variety of different practice scenarios to iron your design skills and compete against others in a mutually beneficial way.

Scoring

Each Design Challenge will net a total of 7 points maximum, with 4 for completion and 3 possible bonuses. Late submissions will allow participants to win up to 2 completion points and all 3 bonus points.

Bonuses

  • Simplicity bonus: Awarded to submissions that simplify design to increase the quality of life of their team.
  • Quality bonus: Awarded to submissions that embody good CAD and design principles and reflect the time and effort put into making a design as clean as possible.
  • Special bonus: Bonus point specific to each design challenge, usually involving the way the challenge is approached and the design is executed.

Leaderboards

Design challenges will feature two separate leaderboards: Beginner and Intermediate/Advanced. Each leaderboard will function independently, but points will be transferred when beginner members gain experience and self identify as intermediate. Please correctly self identify with your skill level! DDS is meant to be a community for learning, and trying to game the system by identifying as a beginner only discourages others. We operate on an honor system, but if someone is trying to game the system, we will punish them accordingly.