Challenge Coin Design

Expert TA

Celebrating 10 years of Educational Excellence

website: https://theexpertta.com/
We are actually looking for a seal rather than a logo. The design will physically be put onto a circular 2.25 inch diameter challenge coin.

We want to make a challenge coin to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. One side of the coin is already designed. It is our company seal/logo. On the other side we want elements of what we do and our journey over the past 10 years.

I have uploaded a VERY rough kind of concept for the design. It has a line map of the United States. We want such a map included in the design. On the map are 13 red icon locations. These locations are of major universities that use our product. We have superimposed a very messy looking "connected network" over the map. You should do a much better job with this. The idea is that these locations on the map are "connected" to each other, to our headquarters in Oklahoma, and to many smaller schools (those are represented as the smaller gray dots in that connected network part of the image). Our company is headquarter in Tulsa Oklahoma and has an office in Jacksonville Fl. Can you somehow emphasize those locations?

I have uploaded an example of a Military Challenge coin that our team likes.
I have uploaded our company seal, which will be the other side of our own coin.
I have uploaded an image that our team found that we think illustrates connectivity.

General Information about our Company
The "TA" in "Expert TA", stands for "Teachers Assistant"
We are an Educational Technology company that makes online homework for higher ed (i.e. colleges and universities)
Our Mission Statement: Our Mission is to build high quality educational tools that help instructors teach and students learn.

Required.
- The design must be circular. it is for a challenge coin, and the other side of the coin exists and is circular.

For the design, we would like the following to be "considered" to be included
- the design should be very distinct from our company seal that is attached. We don't want the two sides of the coin to be too similar. Do not include the tag line "a greater way to educate". Similarly, there shouldn't be a need to reiterate that we were "Est. 2012".
- incorporate some or all of our company values. They are: - "Innovation", "Integrity and Sincerity", and "Composure under Pressure"
- Our company provides educational tools for college level. Any symbols of that could be potentially included in the periphery
- We mostly do physics/math/science classes at a college level, so things like math equations would be welcomed.
- We would like for the design to be intricate, and contain many small/detailed elements of our company and the past 10 years.
- Our product allows an instructor at one school to create materials that are used by instructors at other universities, perhaps across the country. Is it possible to communicate National network of universities that use our products; somehow illustrate connectivity of Universities, students, educators. The attached image conceptually shows connectivity. We would need for the circles to have some educational components (graduation cap, university building with columns, computer, math equations, etc...). We understand the coin is small (2.25 inched in diameter, but again are looking for something intricate like the uploaded military coin. Like the thinner lines in the background of that coin, the illustrated network would need to be thinner and more towards the background.
- Instead of the red "map location" icons, you could use some other symbols in various sized circles if that works better

Summary of map portion
- Have the map of the U.S.
- Have the locations we specified on the map with some education/math/physics icons
- Connect those with some "faint" network lines.
- have the network lines connect to lots of other medium sized and smaller circles/icons (we serve hundreds of schools, the 13 locations are just our biggest clients)
- our 13 schools we wanted to highlight are listed below.

Summary of other elements
- company values somewhere (perhaps around the outside)
- put "celebrating 10 year of educational excellence" somewhere.
- add other educational symbols/design elements in empty spaces if that works

The 13 schools
Auburn, AL - Auburn
West Point, NY - United States Military Academy
Berkely, CA - Cal Berkely
Arlington, TX - the University of Texas Arlington
Gainesville, FL - University of Florida
Tallahassee, FL - Florida State University
Chicago, IL - University of Illinois at Chicago
Norman, OK - University of Oklahoma
Atlanta, GA - Georgia Southern University
Lexington, KY - Kentucky University
Tuscon, Arizona - Arizona University
Penn state university - University Park, PA
College Park, Maryland - University of Maryland
Anchorage, Alaska - the University of Alaska Anchorage
Corvallis, OR - Oregon State University