As the COVID-19 pandemic raged on during 2020, SOLIDWORKS employees, like most office workers, worked remotely. Faced with an inability to see one another and a dearth of creative outlets, company executives tried to think of a way for employees to connect and build something together. A collaborative project that the entire company could have a hand in and could take ownership of, all while using tools in 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio. Thus, The Grand Challenge was born.
In just eight weeks over the summer, over 500 SOLIDWORKS employees around the world joined together on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to create a digital space station. Pushing 3DEXPERIENCE Works design tools to the limit, teams of eight each created a different module to be housed on the station.
Grand Architect and SOLIDWORKS Digital Community Manager Ryan Priddy concurred. “It was exciting to see how passionate our employees were when they came together around a common theme, and jumped into creating CAD parts,” he said. The Grand Challenge provided SOLIDWORKS employees with a way to meet new people they probably would not have interacted with otherwise, all while working together to build something creative, inspiring, and new. And now they can look forward to coming together again and seeing the real-world expression of their collaborative efforts, knowing for sure that The Grand Challenge slogan is true: Everyone is a Creator.
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