Organization:Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

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Overview

The Lemelson-MIT National Collegiate Student Prize is an awards competition open to team of two to five undergraduates and individual graduate students. The scholarship is open to all students attending any U.S. institution and is administered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Engineering.

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, create 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 rahter than for a proposed idea. Patents for studnt inventions are preferred, though not required for application submission.

The National Collegiate Student Prize Competition has two prompts each  year. These prompts rotate and consist of two of the following categories for invention submissions:

  • "Cure it!" -- reimagine healthcare
  • "Eat it!" -- reimagine food and agriculture
  • "Drive it!" -- reimagine transportation
  • "Use it!" -- reimagine devices and tools
  • "Wear it!" -- reimagine consumer products
  • "Network it!" -- reimagine 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 can gain access to through affiliation with this competition 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 receive national recognition, exposure to science, business and other valuable communities to aid in the implementation of their inventions as well as a trip to MIT for the EurekaFest held annually in June. 

The prize is not only a tool for recognition, but also to financially enable students to bring their established inventions to market and to encourage the continual work toward experimentation and innovative thinking and action.

For the 2013 competition, view this promotional poster.

Partner campuses involved with the Student Prize Competition include:

  • Cal Tech (previous participant)
  • University of Illinois - Urbana
  • Rensselaer

Steps Required to Bring Competition to Your Campus

Pending information.

Contact Information

Shannon O'Brien
Awards Program Associate
The Lemelson-MIT Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
School of Engineering
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 10-110
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 253 - 3352
shannon1@mit.edu 
Lemelson_Awards@mit.edu

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