Organization:Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

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Overview

The Lemelson-MIT National Collegiate Student Prize is an awards competition open to teams of two to five undergraduates and individual graduate students. The scholarship is open to students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is administered by MIT's School of Engineering. Prizes are also administered by partnering institutions such as Rensselaer and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Purpose

The student prize showcases student inventions and encourages the pursuit of innovative processes. The nationally renowned award program encourages and inspires young people to pursue innovative studies and career paths that center around creative problem solving. The purpose of this competition is to promote inventions that will boost the economy, sustainable environments and positively impact lives globally.

Distinct Differences From Other Offerings

The prize is for a product that has already been invented by a student or group of students rather than for a proposed idea. Patents for student inventions are preferred though not required for application submission.

The student prize competition has two prompts each year. These prompts rotate and consist of two of the following categories for invention submissions:

- "Cure it!" re-imagine healthcare

- "Eat it!" re-imagine food and agriculture

- "Drive it!" re-imagine transportation

- "Use it!" reimagine devices and tools,

- "Wear it!" re-imagine consumer products

- "Network it!" re-imagine how products and services are delivered through web-based networks. 

MIT is an internationally renowned institution therefore the supportive network that students, groups, and their inventions could gain access to through the affiliation with this prize is certainly a unique opportunity for enhanced exposure to science, and business networks and communities.  

Impact Achieved For Students and Campus

Students or teams of students receive a cash prize of $10,000 or $15,000 for undergraduate and graduate students, respectively. Award winners also received national recognition, exposure to science, business and other valuable communities that aid in implementation as well as a trip to MIT for the EurekaFest held annually in June. 

The prize is not only a tool to recognize but to financially enable students to bring their already established inventions to makrer and to encourage the continual work towards experimentation and innovative thinking and action. 

http://web.mit.edu/invent/pdf/student-prize-poster.pdf

Partner Campuses involved:

Cal tech (previous participant)

University of Illinois-Urbana

Rensselaer

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Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus

Pending information.

Lemelson_Awards@mit.edu

The Lemelson-MIT Program

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

School of Engineering

77 Massachusetts Ave.

Building 10-110

Cambridge, MA 02139