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ASBE High School Design Challenge

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About the Program

The ASBE Foundation High School Design Challenge is an annual automotive design competition that gives high school students the chance to apply real-world design and engineering skills to automotive problems. Run by the American Society of Body Engineers (ASBE) Foundation, the challenge reinforces classroom curriculum while connecting students with industry professionals.

Two competition categories:

Design Concept Students propose creative, aesthetic solutions to an automotive design problem. Submissions may be freehand sketches, computer renderings, scale models, or a combination. A written description explaining the design progression is required. Orthographic drawings are not needed for this track.

Engineering Design Students develop functional engineering solutions considering innovation, functionality, appearance, and mounting/attachments. Submissions must be properly executed engineering drawings using orthographic projection on paper.

Submission requirements:

  • All submissions must be physically mailed or hand-delivered (no electronic files accepted)
  • Mail to: Macomb Intermediate School District, ATTN: Shannon Williams, 44001 Garfield Road, Clinton Twp., MI 48038
  • The official page says 2027 registration, rules and track files are coming soon, with a submission deadline of TBD. Its linked registration form does not establish a confirmed opening date.

Why participate:

  • Organized by the ASBE Foundation, which links automotive industry professionals with educators and students
  • Winners are honored annually at the ASBE Foundation's Awards Program alongside collegiate scholarship recipients
  • Reinforces drafting, design, and creative problem-solving skills emphasized in automotive and engineering coursework

Checked November 4, 2026 against the official challenge page. The linked Smartsheet registration form showed no readable content through either web extraction or an isolated browser. Exact 2027 age/grade and geographic eligibility, fee terms and application dates remain unconfirmed; the Michigan delivery address does not establish a US-only eligibility rule.

Eligibility

The official challenge targets high-school drafting and art students. Design Concept uses sketches, renderings or models with a written design progression; Engineering Design requires orthographic engineering drawings on paper. Exact 2027 grade/age/geographic eligibility is not published with the forthcoming rules.

How to Apply

The official page says 2027 registration, rules and category files are coming soon and the submission deadline is TBD. It still links a Smartsheet registration form, whose contents could not be read during this check; that link alone does not confirm registration is open. Physical entries must be mailed or delivered to Macomb Intermediate School District, ATTN: Shannon Williams, 44001 Garfield Road, Clinton Twp., MI 48038; no electronic files are accepted.