2015 LEMELSON-MIT NATIONAL COLLEGIATE STUDENT PRIZE COMPETITION - PRE-REGISTRATION - do 30. 1. 2015

• DESCRIPTION

  Pre-register here.

   

  The Lemelson-MIT National Collegiate Student Prize Competition is a nationwide search for the most inventive undergraduate and graduate students. The Lemelson-MIT Program will award $50,000 in prizes to collegiate inventors, with winning undergraduate teams receiving $10,000 in two categories and graduate student winners receiving $15,000 in two categories.

   

  Prizes will be awarded to students from any college or university in the US; winners will have invented solutions addressing opportunities in both developed and developing economies in two categories:

   

  The “Cure it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

  “Cure it!” rewards students working on technology-based inventions that can improve healthcare.

    

  The “Use it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

  “Use it!” rewards students working on technology-based inventions that can improve consumer devices and tools.

   

  All winners will also receive a national media campaign, exposure to the investment and business communities, and a trip to MIT for EurekaFest in June 2015.

   

  ABOUT THE LEMELSON-MIT PROGRAM

  Celebrating invention, inspiring youth

   

  The Lemelson-MIT Program celebrates outstanding inventors and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention.

    

  Jerome H. Lemelson, one of US history’s most prolific inventors, and his wife Dorothy founded the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. It is funded by The Lemelson Foundation and administered by the School of Engineering at MIT, an institution with a strong ongoing commitment to creating meaningful opportunities for K-12 STEM education. 

   

  ABOUT THE LEMELSON FOUNDATION

  The Lemelson Foundation uses the power of invention to improve lives, by inspiring and enabling the next generation of inventors and invention based enterprises to promote economic growth in the US and social and economic progress for the poor in developing countries. Established by prolific US inventor Jerome Lemelson and his wife Dorothy in 1992, to date the Foundation has provided or committed more than $175 million in grants and PRIs in support of its mission. For more information, visit http://lemelson.org.

• ORGANIZER

  The Lemelson-MIT Program

CATEGORIES

Awards 
Tech & Engineering 
Entrepreneurship 
Natural Sciences & Math 
Business Idea 

REGIONS

United States

ELIGIBILITIES

Undergraduate level 
Graduate level 
Postgraduate level 

DEADLINE

2015-01-30

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