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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 as well as from schools at 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/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 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: "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. </span></span>
