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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 Student Prize is a National Collegiate Student Award Competition open to teams of two to five undergraduates and individual graduate students. The scholarship is open to students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as from schools at 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&nbsp;promote inventions that will boost the economy, sustainable environments and/or 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 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!" - reimagine 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.&nbsp;</span></span>

<span style= Impact Achieved For Students "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 Campus =business networks and communities. &nbsp;</span></span></span></span>

Students or teams of students receive a cash prize of $10= <span style="font-family:times new roman,000 or $15times,000 for undergraduate and graduate students, respectively. Award winners also received national recognition, exposure to science, business serif;">Impact Achieved For Students and other valuable communities that aid in implementation as well as a trip to MIT for the EurekaFest held annually in June.&nbsp;Campus</span> =

The <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Students or teams of students receive a cash prize is not only a tool to recognize but to financially enable of $10,000 or $15,000 for undergraduate and graduate students , respectively. Award winners also received national recognition, exposure to bring their already established inventions to makrer science, business and other valuable communities that aid in implementation as well as a trip to encourage MIT for the continual work towards experimentation and innovative thinking and actionEurekaFest held annually in June.&nbsp;</span></span>

http<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family://web.mittimes 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 makrer and to encourage the continual work towards experimentation and innovative thinking and action.edu&nbsp;</inventspan></pdf/student-prize-poster.pdfspan>

Partner Campuses involved<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>

University of Illinois<span style="font-Urbanasize:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Cal tech (previous participant)</span></span>

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= <span style="font-sizefamily: 12pxtimes new roman,times,serif;">Shannon O'BrienContact Information<br/></span> =

= <span style="font-size: 12pxmedium;">Awards Program Associate<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Shannon O'Brien</span></span> =

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The Lemelson= <span style="font-MIT Programsize:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">[mailto:Lemelson_Awards@mit.edu Lemelson_Awards@mit.edu]</span></span> =

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