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*DIYROCKETS and Sunglass Team up to Launch World's First Collaborative 3D

Printed Rocket Engine Design Competition*

*Competition aims to make space design open and collaborative, with

legendary inventor Dean Kamen, and judges from NASA, MIT and TED selecting

three winners*

San Francisco - (March 8, 2013) - Today DIYROCKETS and Sunglass are

announcing a partnership to launch the world's first open source

competition to create 3D printed rocket engines through collaborative

design.

The competition opens for registration at South By Southwest (SXSW) on

March 9, and challenges makers, designers and space entrepreneurs to create

open source rocket engines that will serve the growing market for small

payload delivery into low earth orbit and ultimately, disrupt the space

transportation industry.

Although several companies have recently made strides in showcasing the

power of the private sector in space exploration, DIYROCKETS is taking this

a step further by creating the first of many competitions that encourages

the fusion of creativity, technology and collaboration by people across the

globe. Utilizing Sunglass's cloud-based platform to visualize, collaborate,

manage versions and exchange feedback on each design with team members and

the public from anywhere on the globe, the contest aims to dramatically

drive down design costs, while creating innovative technology for all types

of space hardware and parts, ranging from space propulsion to space medical

sensors. Teams will have the freedom to work in a 3D design environment of

their choice such as SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Rhino or CATIA, while

syncing their project to the Sunglass cloud.

DIYROCKETS' strategic partnership with Sunglass is the first step in making

space design open and collaborative, as the company is offering full usage

of its collaborative design platform to all contestants. As the leading

prize sponsor of the challenge, Sunglass will award a total of $10,000 in

prizes for the winning designs, focusing on technical aspects as well as

collaborative teamwork.

Shapeways.com,* *the world's leading 3D Printing marketplace and community,

will also be providing $500 in free 3D printing to help create each of the

top two designs, which will be judged by legendary inventor, Dean Kamen,

TED Senior Fellow and Crew Commander of the NASA-funded HI-SEAS Mars

simulation, Angelo Vermeulen, and a panel of industry experts hailing from

NASA, MIT, TED among others.

"We are excited to be working with Sunglass and Shapeways to harness the

power of open sourcing, 3D printing and collaboration in the cloud, which

will aid our efforts to rapidly advance space exploration," said Darlene

Damm co-founder and co-president of DIYROCKETS. "As NASA's push towards

private and public innovation finally comes to fruition and technology is

now more affordable than ever, we see this as a greenfield opportunity to

truly redefine space design and technology."

"Our goal at Sunglass is to help take the next amazing idea to production

faster through global collaboration," said Nitin Rao, co-founder of

Sunglass. "By joining forces with DIYROCKETS and Shapeways for the 3D

Rocket Engine Design Challenge, we will be able to see a preview of the

incredible impact that 3D printing and cloud collaboration will have in

advancing aerospace technology."

Within less than a year, Sunglass has made tremendous progress in making it

possible for designers, architects and engineers across the globe to easily

work together on 3D models via its cloud-based collaboration platform. With

engagement on the rise and Sunglass's paid users and teams steadily

increasing, the company is bringing continued innovation to the 3D design

industry to transform great ideas into products faster.