<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif">Wanted to pass this along to the Huntsville folk:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif">Short story - We at GE want to work with the outside world to create the next generation of breakthrough home appliances. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif">So we’ve created an open community called <a href="http://firstbuild.com/" target="_blank">FirstBuild.com</a>. It’s a community of engineers, designers, makers, and hardware hackers coming together to design and build amazing home appliances. We (GE) are sponsoring it, so we can help bring the ideas that these folks have in mind…to market. We’ll reward contributors with prize money and royalties but more importantly, we’ll help get their great ideas into millions of people’s homes.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif"><br>Every engineer, designer, and layman has looked at their appliance and said: “Man, I wish it did ____.” Now there’s the opportunity to bring those ideas and innovations to life through <a href="http://firstbuild.com/" target="_blank">firstbuild.com</a>.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif">We’re starting with the Future of Cooking. Let’s work together to revolutionize cooking appliances.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif">Two challenges are now open! The first, the <i><a href="https://firstbuild.com/mary/big-apps-micro-kitchen-challenge/" target="_blank">Micro-Kitchen Challenge</a></i>, tasks the community with helping solve the design and engineering hurdles in creating a micro-kitchen that will maintain the style and functionality in a significantly smaller footprint than traditional kitchens. With grilling not only a major part of the American lifestyle, but an international cooking method that requires intense, direct heat to create nuanced and authentic flavor, the second challenge asks the community to help design and engineer the <i><a href="https://firstbuild.com/mary/indoor-grilling/" target="_blank">Ultimate Indoor Grill</a></i>. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif">Winning project designs and engineering solutions will be brought to life—initially in small batches at the FirstBuild micro-factory in Louisville, KY. The most popular products have the potential of scaling up to mass production, affecting millions of people’s homes and amassing those significant contributors’ royalties! </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'GE Inspira',sans-serif">Help spread the word—there are tons of big ideas out there and challenges to be solved… and it’s time to get started and bring them to life!</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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