Over the last few years, it’s clear that our t-shirts are loved. But the time has come for some fresh designs and we are looking to our customers and community for inspiration.

Do you have a brilliant idea in mind for a Golden Helix t-shirt? Great! You should enter our first ever t-shirt contest! It’s pretty easy really; draw it on a piece of paper, design it in your favorite software, or use your words to convey the message and enter to win here.

From the submissions, we will narrow it down to just a handful and send them out to the Golden Helix community for voting. The three designs with the most votes will be put into production and unveiled at this year’s ASHG in San Diego.

Clearly we want to reward you for your brilliance, so prizes will be offered! First place will take home $200, second place will received $150, and third place, $100. And of course, you will also get to take home your winning t-shirt.

We will kick off the competition on June 6th and accept design ideas through July 3rd. Your design concepts should focus on genomics (obviously) and details on entering can be found here.

Winners will be notified July 30th and announced on August 1st, but everyone will have to wait patiently until ASHG on October 18th when we will introduce our new t-shirts to the world for the first time. (You need not be present at ASHG to compete or to win, but you should be so you can brag!).

Let the competition begin!