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spotlight: inspiring innovation: MIT programs spark students' creative streak | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The IDEAS competition (for MIT students) and InvenTeams program (for high school students) encourage teams to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems. |
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MIT IDEAS competition: generator dinner Thursday, October 11, 2007, 7:30-9:30 pm La Sala, 2nd floor of the MIT Student Center The IDEAS Competition encourages teams to develop and implement projects that make a positive change in the world. Entries are judged on their innovation, feasibility, and community impact. Whether it's a novel water filtration device or a unique translation system for immigrants, if you have an idea for a new way to help others, the IDEAS Competition is for you. Want funding for your innovative community service project? Want to recruit new members or mentors for your IDEAS team? Want to get involved, but don't yet have an idea? Then come to the IDEAS Generator Dinner and get connected! Visit http://web.mit.edu/ideas/www/timeline_generator.htm for more information. 16 high schools awarded Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams grants for invention projects When they're not involved with after-school sports or part-time jobs, what do some of today's most-ambitious high school students do with their spare time? They invent potential breakthrough technologies, from position-indicating radio beacons for commercial fishing vessels, to robotic coconut tree climbers, to gauging power potential via wind-sensing balloons. To encourage this inventive spirit, the Lemelson-MIT Program has selected 16 new high schools to participate in its InvenTeams initiative and each school will receive up to $10,000 each in grant funding for teams of students to identify a real-world problem and invent a practical solution to it. "The focus on real-world problem solving distinguishes InvenTeams from high school invention and robotics competitions," said Leigh Estabrooks, the Lemelson-MIT Program's InvenTeams grants officer. "It's imperative that we continue to foster this spirit of invention in today's youth and enable teachers to create a culture of invention in their schools," Estabrooks continued. "We hope the InvenTeams experience ignites passions for science, technology, engineering and math. We can't wait to see the prototypes these students will invent and the relationships they will form through this experience." (Click here for the full list of grant recipients.) This spring, InvenTeams will have the opportunity to demonstrate their inventions at the InvenTeams Odyssey, part of the Lemelson-MIT Program's EurekaFest. The EurekaFest brings together prominent inventors, students and the Greater Boston community for a week-long celebration of the inventive spirit, and will be held June 16-21, 2008 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. InvenTeams applications for the 2008-2009 school year are now available at http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/apply.html. |
 IDEAS generator dinner Oct. 11: find funding or teammates for your innovative community service project
 InvenTeams grants: 16 high schools awarded grants for real-world problem solving |
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