Dimension 3D Printing Group Announces Winners of ''Extreme Redesign: The 3D Printing Challenge,'' a Global Design and 3D Printing Contest for Students.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Dimension to unveil winning designs, honor top individual and team winners with scholarships at National Design Engineering Show in Chicago

The Dimension 3D Printing Group, a business unit of Stratasys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSYS), announces winners of "Extreme Redesign: The 3D Printing Challenge," a global design and 3D printing contest for high school and college students.

First place winners will travel to an awards ceremony at the National Design Engineering Show (NDES) in Chicago on Mon., March 7 and be honored with $2,500 scholarships; runners-up will receive $1,000 scholarships. Winning designs will be unveiled at the Dimension 3D Printing booth at NDES on Tues., March 8 at 10:30 a.m. Photos and descriptions of winning and runner-up parts will be available on Mon., March 14 at www.DimensionPrinting.com.

The winners and runners-up are:

High School Individual Category

First Place: Lighted Retractable Leash
Designer: Andy Dahnke
School: Careerline Tech Center, Jenison, Mich.

Second Place: Fan Mouse
Designer: Brian Krische
School: Watertown High School, Watertown, Wis.

Third Place: Tapeler
Designer: Tony Vatter
School: Huron Area Technical Center, Bad Axe, Mich.

High School Team Category

First Place: Mouse Radio
Designers: Geoff Glidden and Anthony Borzillo
School: Rockwood Summit High School, Fenton, Mo.

Second Place: Cart Clip
Designers: Jeremy Verbit and Kevin Onofrey
School: Warren Consolidated School District, Warren, Mich.

Third Place: Auto Light Changing Lamp
Designers: Marc Marquez and Cory Ford
School: Harper Woods School, Harper Woods, Mich.

Post Secondary Individual Category

First Place: Stair Climbing Robot
Designer: Mark Paul Kujawski
School: Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Mich.

Second Place: Gum Case
Designer: Matt Sullivan
School: St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn.

Third Place: Drill Jig
Designer: Aaron Deevers
School: Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa, Iowa

"These students have incredibly innovative ideas. They took simple problems and created simple solutions," said Pete Van't Hoff, Extreme Redesign judge and CAD department manager of Arctic Spas. "As designers, we always look for the simplest solution to a problem, because it's less time-consuming and more cost-effective to implement. These students did just that."

The contest, launched September 2004, called for computer-aided-design (CAD) students to submit their most creative, useful and innovative Extreme Redesigns -- anything from a new perspective on an everyday product to a fresh vision for updating a famous piece of art, animation or architecture -- to www.DimensionPrinting.com. Students submitted a .stl file along with a 200-word description of the value and benefit of the Extreme Redesign part. Dimension then sent entrants a 3D print of their redesigns to hold in their hands and evaluate. From there, students had the opportunity to make any necessary design improvements and develop a second iteration for final submission.

Dimension received submissions from high school and college students across the country in three categories: high school individual, high school team and college individual. Independent judges Jim Meir, project manager at Fargo Electronics, and Pete Van't Hoff determined the winners based on creativity, usefulness, part integrity and aesthetics.

"From the pioneering designs we received, we feel the Extreme Redesign contest fulfilled its goal of giving students an opportunity to be challenged and inspired," said Jon Cobb, vice president and general manager of 3D printing for Stratasys. "We look forward to honoring these students with scholarships to help them further their education to become tomorrow's engineers, artists and inventors."

About The Dimension 3D Printing Group

The Dimension 3D Printing Group is a business unit of Stratasys, Inc., based in Minneapolis, Minn. Dimension 3D printers -- which include the Dimension BST and the Dimension SST -- are networked, desktop modeling systems that provide CAD (Computer-Aided-Design) users a fast, office-friendly, low-cost alternative for building functional 3D prints. Dimension 3D printers build accurate models layer by layer using durable ABS plastic, allowing users to not only evaluate design concepts, but test 3D prints for functionality, form and fit. As the first desktop 3D printer that sells for less than $25,000, Dimension incorporates many key features found in modeling systems that cost tens of thousands of dollars more. For more information on Dimension 3D printers, visit www.dimensionprinting.com.