Apply for a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams grant and receive up to $10,000 for a team of high school students, teachers, and mentors to identify a problem and invent a solution for it. Science, technology and mathematics teachers and teams of teachers at public (academic and vocational) and private schools are eligible. Teacher stipends are available.
Past InvenTeams have invented a watermelon ripeness evaluator, omni-directional wheelchair, pothole prediction and prevention device, and portable water treatment for a rural Mexican village.
Each June, InvenTeams demonstrate their inventions during the InvenTeams Odyssey at MIT. Up to 35 teachers from the initial application round will be named Excite Award recipients. These recipients will be invited to attend workshops during the Odyssey to learn first-hand about invention and the InvenTeams experience, and receive guidance to develop the final application. Teams later selected for grants will be invited to attend their own Odyssey the following June with limited funding provided.
Initial applications are due April 25, 2008. You don't have to have the project selected at this time. Apply at web.mit.edu/inventeams or e-mail questions to inventeams@mit.edu
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