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Autodesk's Make It Real program encourages young people to engage with their communities by applying the design thinking process to real-world problems related to construction and the built environment. It also offers inspiration, learning, and funding opportunities.
Autodesk is partnering with pro football quarterback Joshua Dobbs, who majored in aerospace engineering and interned at NASA. As a star pro athlete, he continues to flex his mind to be a force of change.
Join Josh for the “More Than a Destination” film series, in which he meets construction industry game-changers, who are exploring new frontiers through technology and blazing the path for next generation builders.
Josh visits a historic site that has been given a new purpose, causing his engineering mindset to home in on a terrestrial problem.
An architect who is changing the way affordable housing is built invites Josh into his studio, where the past and future intersect across multiple dimensions.
Josh meets with workers who embody the spirit of innovation and grit needed to tackle the housing crisis.
It all comes full circle when Josh travels to a newly constructed development to see how resilient affordable housing benefits socially vulnerable populations.
Learn from industry professionals and start to build your network now.
Autodesk is challenging students to come up with ideas to improve the affordability, availability, and resiliency of mass housing by asking: What if affordable housing could solve other problems in a community?
Participants must be:
Scholarship prizes total $50,000 and will support educational expenses such as tuition, books, room and board, transportation, and childcare. Contest deadline: Monday, June 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT
Explore the learning resources below to build your skills for the contest.
Watch these brief tutorials from Autodesk experts on how to bring a design idea to life.
Model basic architectural concepts in FormIt.
Try advanced tools in FormIt like the Dynamo visual scripting language.
Animate scenes in a design and apply visual styles to personalize it.
Analyze a design for its environmental impact and use Dynamo to automate processes.
Get started designing a landscape using AutoCAD.
Use Revit to highlight building elements that inform construction.
Generate 3D context from geographic data with an Infraworks-FormIt workflow.
Use Construction Cloud tools to review and flag clashes among building elements.
This $500 grant is intended for students ages 17-22 in the U.S. who are transitioning from high school into an apprenticeship or additional vocational training in the building trades. It may be used to cover expenses to support your training such as tuition, books, safety equipment, uniforms, lab fees, transportation, certification fees, or childcare.
This program will run until September 29, 2025, or until the $50,000 in funds (100 total prizes) allotted for this program run out. Limited to one entry per person.
Check out the Autodesk Design & Make Ambassador Program, an innovative student community of designers, engineers, builders, and creators. It's a place to build relationships, share your unique skills, and ultimately prepare you for a successful Design & Make career.
Watch the films below to discover the many career paths into the future of construction.
Josh shares why he is on a quest to merge his background in aerospace studies and football with his interest in building a better Earth.
Josh explores an innovative facility that is transforming how builders approach constructing for changing conditions.
Josh comes away with new questions after meeting with a fabrication worker whose story of creativity and perseverance deepens his thinking.
A journey to a job site joins Josh with a construction manager who ushers concepts into reality and imparts knowledge that inspires a call to action.
James and Connor discuss how their backgrounds in engineering have empowered them with a new way of thinking about the future.
Guided by construction project managers, the duo visits a 520-ton steel deck that will bridge together two Boston neighborhoods.
The team learns from a pipefitter about her career and how the systems she assembles are vital to the building project.
James and Connor learn about construction technologies that reduce busy work, so builders can focus on what matters most.
James sees an opportunity to reimagine a shipping container as a surf shack–inspired cafe that serves smoothies and coffee.
James tackles the interior and exterior design work with everything from the surfboard seat installation to the living wall.
The thin metal walls of a container don’t safely accommodate electrical components, so James seeks expert advice.
James meets with Fope, an Autodesk researcher focused on innovation within the construction industry.