Transportation of Tomorrow Design Contest Think about how will we get from here to there, in the future. The Leelanau Historical Museum challenges you to design your idea of transportation for tomorrow. We are used to cars with 4 wheels, airplanes with wings, trains running on tracks and boats on the water... But let's think differently!!! What if cars had wings and airplanes didn't? What if boats could travel the land and sea? What if trains didn't need tracks? What if roller blades had motors or skateboards had steering wheels and brakes? What if there wasn't any gas? Your Transportation of Tomorrow design can be submitted as a drawing or a three dimensional model, (size and format are specified). Designs can be for personal, commercial or public transportation. Professional designers from General Motors Corporations will evaluate entries. Criteria used by the judges will include design creativity and practicality, and the ways in which your transportation idea solves issues of pollution, traffic congestion and parking problems. ... you don't have to be a good artist to win; your idea is what is being judged... Prizes will be awarded to the judge's choice of designs! There are 4 judging classes. Student Entries    *Elementary Grades 1 through 6    *Middle School Grades 7 through 9    *High School Grades 10 through 12 Adult Entries How to Enter Fill out the Registration Form, and take it to the Museum to pick up your Design Packet that contains the specifications for your entry. Click here to download the Registration Form in Microsoft Word Format [20k] Entry Submission Bring your entries to the Leelanau Historical Museum Thursday, November 29th, between 10 AM and 6 PM, Friday November 30 from 10 AM to 8 PM or Saturday, December 1 8 to 10 AM. The Leelanau Historical Museum is located at 203 East Cedar Street in Leland, Michigan. Entry Deadline Entry deadline is 10 AM, December 1, 2001 at the Leelanau Historical Museum. Entry Evaluation A team of the automobile industry's top designers and local residents have volunteered to evaluate the YT Contest entries; Our thanks to: Jerry Palmer, Executive Director of Design, General Motors Corporation; James Ebejer, Director of Advance Product Design Chrysler Corporation, retired; Ernie Barry, Chief of Design, Chrysler Corporation, retired. Contest Awards The awards for the Contest winners are donated by to Toys and Trains Hobbies of Traverse City, The General Motors Corporation, and Hagerty Classic Insurance. Transportation of Tomorrow Contest Awards & Program Contest winners will be announced at the beginning of Transportation of Tomorrow Program at 2 PM on Saturday, December 1, 2001. Following the announcement automobile historian and NASCAR expert, Mark Howell will give an illustrated talk on "Transportation of Tomorrow." Transportation of Tomorrow Exhibit at the Leelanau Museum All Entries will be on display at the Museum beginning at 1 PM on Saturday December 1, 2001 through December 30, 2001. Return of Entries All entries may be picked up at the Museum between January 2 and January 30, 2002. Museum hours in January will be 10 AM to 4 PM Friday and Saturday. You may also call the Museum at 256-7475 to arrange another time. Entries left at the Museum at January 31, will not be kept. Entry Format Designs may be submitted as a drawing or three-dimensional model. Each entry will be affixed to a Contest Presentation Board at the time it is submitted to the Museum. Each entry will be submitted in two parts: Part I Transportation of Tomorrow Drawing or Model The dimensions of the drawing and model should be no larger than 11 inches by 14 inches. Part II Ð Entry Information Form The dimensions of the Entry Information Forms are 10" long by 6" wide inches. A black Entry Information form is provided with this packet. You may copy it as needed. Click here to download the Registration Form in Microsoft Word Format [20k] Questions? Call or email your questions: Laura Quackenbush 231/256-7475 or quackenbush@leelanauhistory.org and Keith Ashley at 271- 3131. The Transportation of Tomorrow Contest in held in conjunction the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibit Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future at the Leelanau Historical Museum November 4 through December 31, 2001. Yesterday's Tomorrow is brought to Leelanau County by the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service. Sponsored by the James S. and James. L Knight Foundation and the Hearst Foundation.