The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize honors promising collegiate inventors around the country.
The Student Prize is open to teams of undergraduate students and individual graduate students who have technology-based inventions in categories that represent significant sectors of the economy: healthcare, transportation and mobility, food/water and agriculture, and consumer devices.
Applicants submit their inventions in categories that represent significant sectors of the economy, which could be reimagined and improved through invention. The prize categories are:
- The "Cure it!" Lemelson-MIT Student Prize.
- The "Eat it!" Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
- The "Move it!" Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
- The "Use it!" Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Winners receive:
- $15,000 to the winning graduate student in each of the prize categories.
- $10,000 to the winning undergraduate team in each of the prize categories.
- National media campaign and exposure to investment and business communities.
- A trip to MIT for an award celebration in June 2020.