Rules and Guidelines

Competition Objectives

• Highlight Manufacturing and Woodworking Technology in high schools across Canada.
• Encourage students to develop and demonstrate the technical skills that they need to enter technical careers.
• Recognize students who excel in Manufacturing and Woodworking at the High School level.
• Create a database of fun, relevant projects that can be used by high schools to teach Manufacturing and Woodworking.

Competition Parameters

2010 Competition

Final Registration Date: Feb. 17th, 2010
All Projects Submitted By: May 25th, 2010

Students may register any day up to the submission deadline
Judging is done first week of July

Eligible Participants

Any student or students enrolled in a high school technical program in Canada.

Registration

Students must complete registration form on www.koolprojects.com.
Each entrant must be sponsored by a full-time high school instructor.

Rules

• Project submissions must be made online in the Submissions section.
• Student is to enter individually.
• Submissions can be a single part or a project which is a number of parts assembled and fastened together.
• Each student submitting a part or project must be sponsored by their current instructor.
• Student must be enrolled full-time at a high school (co-op is acceptable).
• All drawings and files for projects and/or parts become property of In-House Solutions Inc.
• Projects or parts must follow the guidelines as listed below:
• parts or projects cannot be weapons-related, must not include any profanity or be used to perform an illegal activity
• must be designed and produced in school
• a CNC mill, CNC lathe or CNC router must be used to machine a portion of the part or projects
• Each submission must include:
• Digital photographs of each part. Data can be in BMP, JPG or GIF format.
• CAD files (dimensioned) for each part and assemblies (if applicable) in one of the following formats:
• Autocad (DXF, DWG, IPT, IAM)
• SolidWorks (SLDPRT)
• Solid Edge (PAR, PSM)
• ProE (PRT, ASM)
• IGES
• CATIA
• Mastercam (MC8, MC9, MCX)
• CAM files for each part in:
• The native file format of the CAM system being used.
• Mastercam (MC8, MC9, MCX)
• CNC files for each part.
• The KoolProjects Submission page filled out and submitted.