Proton has announced the winners for the Proton Design Competition 2015 where 3 students from Sekolah Agama Menengah Bestari Subang and a 22-year old Automotive Design student of UiTM Shah Alam stole the judges’ hearts with their outstanding submissions!
Najwa binti Abdul Aziz, 16, Muhammad Arif Fadhli bin Ishak, 15 and Iylia Farzana binti Ibrahim, 16 of Sekolah Agama Menengah Bestari Subang Jaya submitted the winning entry for Category 1: Secondary School, entitled Proton Enigmas. For Category 2: Individual, Muhammad Ismail bin Ibrahim, 22, of UiTM Shah Alam submitted his winning design, entitled Proton Maxima.
Proton have received 430 entries across Malaysia for the design competition that ran for 14 weeks. Schools that participated includes national, vernacular, vocational, boarding and religious schools.
“We are thrilled at this year’s entries for the 2 categories. Not only did the submission number increase from last year, we also saw better quality in terms of designs that were submitted to us and the adherence to requirements listed in the contest form,” said Dato’ Abdul Harith Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer, PROTON Holdings Bhd.
“When we started the Competition last year, we had always aimed at nurturing the spirit of creativity amongst youths in Malaysia and that quality of submissions should increase due to the exposure we provide to them. Our Head of Design had increased the requirements for the competition with the addition of hand-drawn ideation sketches for both categories and the vehicle packaging diagram for occupants and powertrain for Category 2. We saw many talentedentries who understood the requirements of the Competition and prepared themselves well. Of course, there are much more to designing a car when engineering comes into place, but this is a fun platform and a good start to unearth hidden talents within Malaysians, especially among youths,” Dato’ Harith added.
Before the prize giving ceremony, the winners were taken on tour to Proton’s Research and Development (R&D) Centre where all Proton cars are first created and they were brought through a special presentation by Azlan Othman, Head of Design, Proton. During the presentation, the winners were given a special preview of what Proton has been working on and a run-through of the processes involved in automotive design.
The winners then received their prizes from YABhg Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Chairman of Proton, accompanied by Dato’ Harith who gave away prizes to the Consolation winners of both categories.
For Category 1, the winning schools each received RM,000, RM7,000 and RM5,000 for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. In Category 2, winners received RM15,000, RM10,000 and RM7,000 each. 4th to 10th place consolation winners of both categories brought home RM1,000 cash prize and all winners also received a certificate, a medal or a trophy as well.
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