Global NI LabVIEW Student Design Competition

Show us how you’re incorporating LabVIEW software into your design project for a chance to win cash prizes and trips to NIWeek 2013 in Austin, Texas. From inexpensive medical devices to complex underwater autonomous vehicles, we want to see how students like you are engineering a better world using the LabVIEW graphical development environment. The possibilities are endless, so submit your design project now.

Prize Information

The Popular Vote:

Encourage your friends to vote for your project. Collect the most votes and win.

  • First Prize: $750 USD
  • Second Prize: $500 USD
  • Third Prize: $250 USD

The Critics Vote:

National Instruments will select the top four projects and fly two participants from each project to Austin, Texas, to attend NIWeek 2013, where one project will be announced as the winner.

Local Prizes:

If you are from one of the countries below, you are also eligible for deluxe local prizes.

For more information regarding local competitions, please contact National Instruments local offices. Learn more about the prizes

What Is LabVIEW?

LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment used by millions of engineers and scientists to develop sophisticated measurement, test, and control systems using intuitive graphical icons and wires that resemble a flowchart.

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2012 Finalist

Students from the University of Leeds used LabVIEW and Microsoft and Kinect to develop a low-cost rehabilitation and surgical analysis system.

View the award winning submission

View previous winners

Student Design Project Library

Browse the Student Design Project Library to see how your peers are using LabVIEW and other NI technologies to engineer a better world. If you see an out-of-this-world submission for the 2013 LabVIEW Student Design Competition, make sure to vote for the project by "liking" it.

View the project library