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<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Illinois Tech Innovation Challenge invites students from Chicago area community colleges and high school schools to develop smart solutions for real-world consumer or business needs. This event encourages and inspires students to think about creating physical things, applications, and applications that control physical things by encouraging them to seek to solve a real-world consumer or business need or problem that they have identified. Demonstrate their creativity and inventiveness at solving this problem. This event also provides an opportunity to earn a monetary prize unto $2500 and free rent at a maker’s co-working space to recognize their accomplishment.</span></span></p>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since 1995 Illinois Tech’s IPRO Program has provided the alternative to a traditional undergraduate education. Our signature IPRO Program remains one of just a few programs of its kind in the country. IPRO joins students from various majors to work together to solve real-world problems, often on behalf of sponsor companies and nonprofits. A required academic program, IPRO teaches leadership, creativity, teamwork, design thinking, and project management—uniquely preparing students to succeed in a professional work environment.</span></span></p>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Each semester culminates with Innovation Day, a forum where students showcase their team’s outcomes for members of the Illinois Tech community, sponsors, and public at large. Students prepare posters, conduct live demos, show off their designs and prototypes, and have the opportunity to speak with expert guests about their work—along the way developing public speaking and presentation skills.</span></span></p>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every idea needs fuel to be successful. Illinois Tech’s Idea Shop helps to ignite ideas with cutting-edge tools to help students transform their new products and inventions into reality. This state-of-the-art, rapid-prototyping lab houses 3D printers and scanners, multiple CNC milling machines, a vacuum former, and laser cutter. Full-time staff advise students on everything from equipment use to product marketability. You can use the Idea Shop for a class project, research project, or your own personal endeavor.</span></p>