Empowering Student Designers and Innovators
NDL is a student-first organization, empowering young students to build their skills and take on tomorrow's biggest challenges
McMaster
Design League
Official student Designathon League
Powering Designathons at all educational levels
Resource Center
Provide future makers with the best resources.
Hosted Canada's 1st Designathon
Started post-secondary Designathon in Canada
Community for Designers & Innovators
Foster a community for future Innovators
What is the
National Design League
National Design League (NDL) is the official Designathon league in Canada, helping power competitions at all educational levels and the students behind them. We believe that the design process is an outlet for problem solving and creativity. Our goal is to form a community of passionate designers and innovators (of all ages) to collaborate on the biggest design issues in the industry today.
We Power Designathons & more
From providing organizer resources to sharing a hardware lab of 3D printers and workstations, our goal is to make it easy to host a Designathon. We want our events accessible to as many students as possible and work tirelessly with student groups, school boards, post-secondary institutions, and corporate partners to make this a reality.
High school
Designathon
We support students to start and grow Design Leagues at their institution, helping streamline the process of hosting Designathons and workshops as they make a mark in their student community.
Post-secondary
Corporate
Designathon
Corporate Designathons bring students to a company for a competition mirroring a dynamic workplace, allowing employers to share their work culture and hire some of the brightest talent.
Our STEM-ed program consists of Designathons and an array of workshops, tools like CAD and rapid prototyping to give high school students a taste of real-world designing.
STEM-ed Program
Our Story
One of the biggest challenges we faced as former students was finding an outlet to explore our creative ideas and apply the theory learned in class to real world applications. Amidst the constant deadlines of assignments and tests, there was no way for us to practically apply our knowledge.
NDL was founded on the belief that we can better prepare students to tackle the fast- paced challenges of today and shape the world of tomorrow by better equipping students with the necessary skills and experience needed to be able to solve some of the biggest real world design challenges.
Application Based Learning
Skill Based Hiring
Cultivate a Community
Started post-secondary Designathon in Canada
Started post-secondary Designathon in Canada
Started post-secondary Designathon in Canada