DiabetesMine Design Challenge: Fostering Innovation to Improve Life with Diabetes

The 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is a competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools that will improve life with diabetes.

This competition is open to any individuals or organizations passionate about diabetes and product design - whether you're an enterprising patient or parent, a startup company, a design student, an independent developer or engineer, or a pharma R&D pro.

Grand Prize winner will recieve $10,000 in cash and a mini-workshop with Health and Wellness experts at the global design and innovation firm IDEO.

Submissions are accepted in the form of a 2-minute video to be uploaded to the DiabetesMine YouTube channel, or a 2-3 page written "elevator pitch" plus supporting graphics, also to be uploaded online.

The deadline for entries is Friday, May 1st, 2009, at 11:59 pm Pacific time.

Winners will be announced on Monday, May 18th, 2009.