Working prototype submissions are due on Tuesday, February 15 at 5pm EST.
2011 Competition
January 23, 2011 by
Have you ever thought, “My education at MIT would be infinitely better or easier if there was just a technology to…?” Or, “Student life at MIT could be dramatically improved with the creative application of technology?” Well, now’s the time to show MIT and your fellow classmates how you might provide solutions to these problems!
Join the ranks of Course Picker, NB and Lingt as winners of the iCampus Prize! Participate in the 2011 iCampus Technology Innovation Student Prize competition.
The 2011 competition is a two stage competition awarding up to $15,000 in total prizes. First-round submissions require a working prototype—up to five $1,000 prizes will be awarded to the top competitors. First-round winners are then expected to compete in the final round – which requires a fully functional submission – for a grand prize of up to $10,000.
Important Dates
- Information Sessions: IAP Session, January 12, 2011, 2-3 pm, 12-122
- First Round Submissions Due: February 15, 2011 by 5pm EST
- First Round Contestant Presentation: February 25, 2011 from 1-3pm EST (we may ask you to make a presentation)
- First Round Winners Announced: February 28, 2011
- Final Round Submissions Due: April 15, 2010 by 5pm EST
- Final Round Winners Announced: Early May 2011
About the Competition
The iCampus Technology Innovation Student Prize recognizes the innovative and creative application of technology that improves the educational and student life experiences at MIT.
The competition builds upon the entrepreneurism and spirit of service exhibited by MIT students to solve the world’s problems by focusing attention of what might be improved closer to home in MIT’s education and student life.
The competition is open to all currently registered MIT undergraduate and graduate students, both individuals and groups. Entries must involve the use of technology to enhance life and learning at MIT, and they must be developed to the point where MIT could adopt them and make them part of our environment.
About the iCampus Technology Innovation Student Prize
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received an endowment gift of $400,000 from Microsoft Research on behalf of the iCampus research collaboration between Microsoft Research and MIT. iCampus projects demonstrated innovative applications of technology for revolutionary change throughout the Institute’s curriculum. Continuing the spirit of this collaboration, Microsoft Research endowed an award to recognize creative student projects in information technology that improve education, community, and learning. MIT gratefully acknowledges this award, and the spirit of creativity that it represents.
Info Session Postponed
January 12, 2011 by
Due to the closing of MIT on Wednesday, January 12 due to weather, the iCampus Prize Info Session has been postponed. We will post details when we reschedule the session. If you are interested in submitting, we encourage you to view the Criteria, Submit and Past Winners.
MITCET Awards 2010 iCampus Student Prize to Michael (Mitcho) Erlewine ‘G
December 22, 2010 by
Source: Brandon Muramatsu
Edgerton Digital Collections and Shakespeare Project, Michael (Mitcho) Erlewine 'G
December 22, 2010
The MIT Council for Educational Technology (MITCET) and OEIT are pleased to announce that Michael (Mitcho) Yoshitaka Erlewine ‘G, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, has been awarded the 2010 Microsoft Research iCampus Technology Innovation Student Prize (the icampus student prize) for his work on “Sustainable Web Development for the MIT Community Using WordPress”.
Mitcho Erlewine’s programming work was essential for the creation and deployment of three online educational resources that were built on the WordPress web-publishing platform: the Edgerton Digital Collection, which featured over 8,000 photographs and 12,000 pages of Doc Edgerton’s research notebooks, made public for the first time through this site; the MIT Math CI Space, which enables instructors in the Department of Mathematics to share resources and best practices for teaching communication-intensive mathematics courses; and the MIT Shakespeare Project, which catalogs information on unique Shakespeare performances and interpretations from around the world.
Mr. Erlewine’s work included data structure architecture, metadata synchronization, and enhancements to the WordPress platform such as new functionalities for Creative Commons licensing, batch file upload and download, and certificate authentication and authorization. Through free, public distribution of component functionality as WordPress plugins, the technology innovations are shared with the greater WordPress and academic communities.
2009 iCampus Prize Winners Recognized at OEIT EdTech Fair
November 22, 2010 by
By Molly Ruggles, Educational Technology Consultant, OEIT, ruggles@mit.edu
2009 iCampus Prize Winners
(l-r: S. Zyto, V. Ivanova, C. Varenhorst, J. Cannon, V. Kumar)
iCampus winners Chris Varenhorst ’09 and Justin Cannon ’08 demonstrated their Lingt Language website, an interactive tool for language learning. Second place winner Sacha Zyto ‘G demonstrated his PDF Communal Annotation Site. Drs. Kumar and Ivanova administered the prize competition and presented awards to the winners.
MITCET and OEIT Host iCampus Student Prize Celebration
October 1, 2008 by
By Violeta Ivanova, Instructor and IT Consultant, OEIT violeta@mit.edu
The Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT) and the MIT Council on Educational Technology (MITCET) are pleased to announce the annual Microsoft Research iCampus Technology Innovation Student (MRiTIS) Prize. Made possible by a generous endowment by Microsoft Research following the completion of the iCampus initiative, the MRiTIS Prize recognizes innovative applications of information technology to enhance education and/or improve student life.
Source: Brandon Muramatsu
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