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A creative young man from Saline who often doodled in his notebook instead of paying attention in class wound up at Nike headquarters in Oregon in late August, the winner of a national shoe-design contest.
Neil Zemba, an 18-year-old sophomore at the University of Michigan, beat out 12,000 contestants to win Nike's Future Sole Contest. He won $5,000 worth of computer equipment, and his shoe design could become an actual shoe on store shelves.
Neal Zemba with his Nike shoe design.
The Future Sole contest gave high school and college students the chance to design an N-7 shoe, a Jordon shoe, or a T-shirt. Zemba's design was for an N-7 shoe, which Nike says is inspired by Native American and Aboriginal cultures.
There were two rounds to the contest. For the first round, Nike picked six designs to put up for vote on its website. Zemba's design, which he said looked "super futuristic" and "like a dragonfly," was one of the two most-voted on designs, so he took part in the next round.
For the second round, Zemba and another college student were given the same rubber sole of an N-7 shoe, and were told to make a new design. But this time, each was paired up with a Nike shoe designer.
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