<br/>MIT is an internationally renowned institution, therefore the supportive network that students, groups and their inventions can gain access to through affiliation with this competition is certainly a unique opportunity for enhanced exposure to science and business networks and communities.
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<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 receive national recognition, exposure to science, business and other valuable communities that to aid in the implementation of their inventions as well as a trip to MIT for the [http://web.mit.edu/invent/eurekafest.html 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 for recognition, but also to financially enable students to bring their already established inventions to market and to encourage the continual work towards toward experimentation and innovative thinking and action. </span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:times new romanFor the 2013 competition,times,serif">view this [http://web.mit.edu/invent/pdf/student-prize-poster.pdf http://web.mit.edu/invent/pdf/student-prize-promotional poster].pdf]</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">Partner Campuses campuses involvedwith the Student Prize Competition include:</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">*Cal tech 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> =