Ten teams from seven universities designed and built a dome that was judged in various categories, the last of which saw each dome go up against the compression machine.

Congratulations to the winners and well done to all the participants!

• First Place: Aluminati (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

• Runner-Up: HammerDome (McMaster University)

• Judges’ Choice: HammerDome (McMaster University)

• Materials Innovativeness: Dome of Arc (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) 

• Best Themed Design: Clutch’s Crown (Lehigh University)

• Best-In-Destruction: The Pitchforks (Arizona State University)

• Devils Dome (Arizona State University)

• IMAT-DOME (Instituto Tecnologico de Morelia)

• Opossum Foundries (Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia)

• RaDomeKa (University of Connecticut)

• Connecticut Crushers (University of Connecticut)

The competition was hosted in person at IMAT, the International Materials Applications & Technologies conference and exhibition, in Detroit, MI. Established in 2014 by the ASM Student Board Members, DomesDay is intended to familiarize Material Advantage students with a piece of ASM culture, the Geodesic Dome, by involving them in a design and materials selection competition.

Details on DomesDay 2026 will be shared this coming spring!