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= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Overview</span> =
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">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.</span></span>
= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Purpose</span> =
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">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.</span></span>
= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Distinct Differences From Other Offerings</span> =
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">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.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The student prize competition has two prompts each year. These prompts rotate and consist of two of the following categories for invention submissions:</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">- "Cure it!" re-imagine healthcare</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">- "Eat it!" re-imagine food and agriculture</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">- "Drive it!" re-imagine transportation</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">- "Use it!" reimagine devices and tools,</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">- "Wear it!" re-imagine consumer products</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">- "Network it!" re-imagine how products and services are delivered through web-based networks. </span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1bc175f3-845b-312a-2dc0-8b0239de8b96"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span></span></span></span>
= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Impact Achieved For Students and Campus</span> =
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">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. </span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The prize is not only a tool to recognize but to financially enable students to bring their already established inventions to market and to encourage the continual work towards experimentation and innovative thinking and action. </span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">[http://web.mit.edu/invent/pdf/student-prize-poster.pdf http://web.mit.edu/invent/pdf/student-prize-poster.pdf]</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Partner Campuses involved:</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Cal tech (previous participant)</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">University of Illinois-Urbana</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Rensselaer</span></span>
= <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">Steps Required to Bring Information to Campus</span> =
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: medium;">Pending information.</span>
= <span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Contact Information</span><br/> =
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The Lemelson-MIT Program</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">School of Engineering</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">77 Massachusetts Ave.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Building 10-110</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Cambridge, MA 02139</span></span>