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The [http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-student.html 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 students and Massachusett's 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.
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