Engineering to inspire

Hi Ho Hi Ho, off to home we go.

Create 2010 winners guest blog about their travels to Munich.
This trip is generously sponsored by BMW.

Day four: Up a mountain, through Bayern Munich’s locker room, into the terminal, and thoughts.

We’re on the top of the world!

We’re now culturally-shocked tourists…

Create 2010 winners guest blog about their travels to Munich.
This trip is generously sponsored by BMW.

Day three: Mo’ museums, a culture of cars?, the palace, and the streets of Munich

Choo-choo train going nowhere. But we are headed to the…

BMW FIZ-zy, museums of cars & art

Create 2010 winners guest blog about their travels to BMW headquarters in Munich.
This trip is generously sponsored by BMW.

Day two: The FIZ, car models, modern art, and loads of food.

What we really want too…

Touchdown München & 600 Transformers

Create 2010 winners guest blog about their travels to BMW Welt in Munich.
This trip is generously sponsored by BMW.

Day one: Arrived in Munich; the daredevil in BMW Welt; and “robots working in symphony” to make cars.

Yup. There’s graffiti in Germany too…

Interview with Create 2010 Winners: Great Ideas Association

We hate them. We really do.

It costs a ton of cash to fly to Munich, doze in Hilton, and munch on Bratwursts, Schnitzels, and Pretzels. But these boys get it all for free!

The trio from Raffles Institution, collectively known as Great Ideas Association, won over our Create 2010 judges with the GDome – a “greenhouse that could transform coastal regions into arable land and efficate sustainable farming” (read it on Scribd). It came out from their motivation to “reduce world hunger and secure our food for the future.”

The project addresses very real problems. Hopefully it’ll get turned into reality some time soon. (Remember you heard it here first!) Until then, they’ll just have to make do with a trip to Munich.

Ahhh… Bygones. It’s water under the bridge.

But questions bugged us. How did they win Create 2010? And why did they even sign up in the first place? So we caught up with Great Ideas Association and jawed over coffee, rain and travel plans.

PS: Create 2011 is just round the corner. Check back for more details!

Congratulations to Top 5 finalists!

Congratulations to the top 5 finalists of Create 2010!

We did it!
It took our judges a looong time to pick and choose because every submission is awesome! But our judges must decide, so here are your finalists:
• Weighing Wheel by Team IV
• Gdome by Great Ideas Association
• Pendulamp by Frontier
• Expired Food by Create!
• Virtual Cloning by Nimnix3

Check out their ideas at ucreatechange.com/create2010.