About the competition

Aim

The aim of this year’s competition is to make a difference for people living with disability in their experience of taking part in activities and games for all by making them inclusive; and, publicise open-source information on how to make a version within their award winners receive a competition certificate, with the gold sponsor award for each brief also winning a £100 cash prize.

All the shortlisted designs will be publicised widely through all media outlets by Boccia England, Special Olympics, and Loughborough University.

Important dates

• 1 October 2024 - Competition opens.
• 29 June 2025, 5:00pm - Competition closes.
• 15 August 2025 - Competition brief awards shortlist announced, public voting open for each brief sponsor awards.
• 22 August 2025 - Competition winners announced at online presentation.

Important points

• All designs should focus on a physical product but may be supported using a smart phone or other proprietary electronic device being repurposed.
• Your design should be based on secondary (desk-based) research. The resources must be sign-posted. If you are involving people in your designs, you must gain ethics approval from the institutional review board of your University.
• Keep your design simple. Someone else will have to make your design with limited resources.
• Use low-cost, sustainable, and readily available materials, such as plywood, softwoods, cardboard, recycled packaging, ferrous and non-ferrous metal standard box section and tubing.
• Keep electrical circuits simple, using readily available components and or your coding that could be reproduced using a proprietary software package, e.g. Arduino or Raspberry Pi.
• Communicate your plans through dimensions on an engineering drawing convention and schematics, component lists, illustrations, or photographs of a prototype presented as slides within your narrated video.