Participant Tickets

Participant Admission - $15.00 — Sold Out!
Member Pricing - $10.00

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About the Event

Calling all young innovators under 18! Are you passionate about cars and enjoy creating your own designs? This is your chance to shine! Our theme for 2025 is Celebrating Americana! We're seeking participants between the ages of 5-17 to create a scale car model or design sketch and enter into our contest! Participants will be divided into grade cohorts: K-3rd grades, 4th-7th grades, and 8th-12th grades. Participants must submit their entry form by March 1, 2025.

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Member Benefit

Petersen Members receive a discount, as well as complimentary parking for this event! Contact membership@petersen.org for your discount code. Not a Member? Join Today!

Event FAQs

Event Notice

This workshop is for Junior Concours Participants ONLY. Attendees without a valid participant ticket will not be allowed to participate. If you would like to learn more about the Junior Concours Competition, click here >

Members enjoy special ticket pricing and complimentary parking at this event. Not a member? Join today!

Workshop Theme: Scale Models

Need extra support and guidance? Join us onsite at the Petersen Automotive Museum for one of our Build Days leading up to the event, where our dedicated volunteers and staff will lead a guided lesson for every step of the creative process. Participants will receive reminder emails as Build Day dates get closer with details on how to RSVP to each event.

The ‘Scale Models’ workshop will explore the use of clay models in the automotive design process. We’ll review some sculpting techniques using air-dry clay before developing models of the sketches created in the previous workshop!

Have questions, or didn’t receive an RSVP invite for this event? Contact macfalle@petersen.org as soon as possible!

Event Notice

This workshop is for Junior Concours Participants ONLY. Attendees without a valid participant ticket will not be allowed to participate. If you would like to learn more about the Junior Concours Competition, click here >

Members enjoy special ticket pricing and complimentary parking at this event. Not a member? Join today!

Workshop Theme: Perspective Drawing

Need extra support and guidance? Join us onsite at the Petersen Automotive Museum for one of our Build Days leading up to the event, where our dedicated volunteers and staff will lead a guided lesson for every step of the creative process. Participants will receive reminder emails as Build Day dates get closer with details on how to RSVP to each event.

In the ‘Perspective Drawing’ workshop, you can expect to learn the basics of perspective drawing to help add new dimensions to your design sketches! We’ll begin by exploring dimensions and angles before we begin creating a few sample three dimensional shapes.

Have questions, or didn’t receive an RSVP invite for this event? Contact macfalle@petersen.org as soon as possible!

Event Notice

This workshop is for Junior Concours Participants ONLY. Attendees without a valid participant ticket will not be allowed to participate. If you would like to learn more about the Junior Concours Competition, click here >

Members enjoy special ticket pricing and complimentary parking at this event. Not a member? Join today!

Workshop Theme: The Design Process

Need extra support and guidance? Join us onsite at the Petersen Automotive Museum for one of our Build Days leading up to the event, where our dedicated volunteers and staff will lead a guided lesson for every step of the creative process. Participants will receive reminder emails as Build Day dates get closer with details on how to RSVP to each event.

This workshop is where you’ll learn about the many stages of the automotive design process from creating an idea to constructing a prototype. We’ll help walk you through brainstorming your own design!

Have questions, or didn’t receive an RSVP invite for this event? Contact macfalle@petersen.org as soon as possible!

Participant Tickets

General Ticket - $15.00 | Members - $10.00

Sold Out

Petersen Members, please get in touch with membership@petersen.org for your discount code.

Please Note, when purchasing tickets, ensure you have “Email me with News and Offers” selected to receive additional Participant Information and Forms required to enter the competition.

About the Event

Introducing the first-ever Petersen Junior Concours! Calling all young innovators under 18! Are you passionate about cars and enjoy creating your own designs? This is your chance to shine! Be one of the first participants in the Junior Concours’s debut design challenge, Future Visions, where you imagine the Car of the Future! We're seeking youth between the ages of 5-17 to create and enter a scale car model or design sketch of a future car into our contest. Participants will be divided into age groups: 5-9 years, 10-14 years, and 15-17 years, and submissions will be accepted for the following categories: Dream Machines / The Future, Today / Off-roading Off-planet. You have until March 23, 2024, to create your scale model or design sketches, which you will then display at the Petersen Automotive Museum for consideration by our panel of esteemed judges. Winners will receive prizes such as tickets to local attractions, gift cards, memberships, and scholarships!

To join, entrants must purchase a Participant Ticket. Ticket includes entry into the Concours, light bites, and complimentary same-day admission into the Museum for (1) Youth participant plus (1) Adult guardian. Petersen Members also enjoy complimentary parking! After you purchase your ticket, you will receive a confirmation email with an event packet explaining entry rules, judging criteria, and details about our Community Build Days.

Member Benefit

Petersen Members receive a special discount and complimentary parking for this event! Don't hesitate to get in touch with membership@petersen.org for your discount. Not a Member? Join Today!

Event FAQs