Yesterday's Events

Yesterday during our class period, Ellen Dickenson from the Lemelson-MIT Foundation visited our school. We presented her our projects, volunteer work, and fundraising progress beginning from the start of our year to what we wish to accomplish by school year's end. In addition to Ellen, we also had Mr. Piccirillo there to observe the presentation. Mr. Piccirillo is the Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education for our school district. The presentation went extremely well, as we have accomplished a great deal over the last few weeks. 

Last night, we also had the privilege and opportunity to observe the Lemelson-RPI Student Prize being awarded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

"The student prize is awarded annually to an MIT senior or graduate student who has created or improved a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, redesigned a system or in other ways displayed a portfolio of inventiveness. Award winners gain invaluable exposure to the science, business and investment communities through national press around this award.

The Lemelson-MIT Program funds three additional $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prizes at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and California Institute of Technology. (1)"


"The $30,000 Student Prize is awarded to a Rensselaer senior or graduate student who has created or improved a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, redesigned a system or in other ways demonstrated remarkable inventiveness. Award winners gain invaluable exposure to the science, business and investment communities through national press around this award. (2)"




You can see the ceremony video and more about the prize here:
http://www.eng.rpi.edu/lemelson/index.cfm


We were very excited about both of these opportunities, and truly believe that they were extremely beneficial to our InvenTeam members. We hope to use these experiences to further progress not only our current projects but our academic careers as well. 



(1)- http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-student.html
(2)- http://www.eng.rpi.edu/lemelson/about.cfm