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Merrimack High School from Merrimack, N.H., received a 2007 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to invent a solar-powered biodiesel processor, which it used and tested as fuel in an old Air Force bus that the InvenTeam acquired. The InvenTeam exhibited its ...
Martin Fisher is co-founder of the non-profit social enterprise KickStart. To date, Fisher's low-cost irrigation pumps and innovative business model have helped to lift nearly 80 percent of his customers - poor African farmers - out of poverty. Biography | Press ...
Lynden High School of Lynden, Washington is one of 15 teams participating from across the United States in the Lemelson-MIT EurekaFest 2012. Our Lynden InvenTeam invention is a 3 wheeled recumbent trike with a composite frame. The trike will have an active leaning suspension which will allow ...
During a visit to Brazil through an invitation from Embraer, Joshua Schuler spent a day at Colegio Engenheiro Juarez Wanderley, an engineering-focused scholarship school for the region's brightest students from impoverished families. This video is a local news piece ...
Littleton High School of Littleton, N.H., was a 2003 pilot InvenTeam grantee that has since sustained a culture of inventiveness. The InvenTeam exhibited the Argus, a remote-sensing network device to monitor the weather, at a showcase held at MIT in June 2007.
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Profile on Lemelson-MIT Prize winner Chad Mirkin. The Lemelson-MIT Program recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention. We are funded by the Lemelson ...
The Tesla Engineering Charter School InvenTeam from Appleton, Wisconsin received a 2009 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to invent an alternative energy refrigerator for northern climates. They presented their invention at EurekaFest 2009 at MIT.
The Teen Technology InvenTeam from Bridgewater, New Jersey received a 2009 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to invent an adaptive, pedal-operated multi-grain thresher. They presented their invention at EurekaFest 2009 at MIT.
Susan Hockfield, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks at the 2009 Lemelson-MIT Awards ceremony.
Subra Suresh, Dean of the School of Engineering, speaks at the 2009 Lemelson-MIT Awards ceremony.
Mark Grabowsky, Medical Officer for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks at the 2009 Lemelson-MIT Awards ceremony.
Gregory Geoffroy, President of Iowa State University, speaks at the the 2009 Lemelson-MIT Awards ceremony.
The Garfield-Palouse High School InvenTeam from Palouse, Washington received a 2009 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to invent an agricultural lift for people with disabilities. They presented their invention at EurekaFest 2009 at MIT.
Dorothy Lemelson, chair of the Lemelson Foundation, speaks at the 2009 Lemelson-MIT Awards ceremony.
The Clarksburg High School InvenTeam from Clarksburg, Maryland received a 2009 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to invent a pressure-sensitive illuminated computer cable. They presented their invention at EurekaFest 2009 at MIT.
Chad Mirkin, winner of the 2009 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, presents the development of Nanoparticle-based biodiagnostics and the barcode assay to diagnose patients at early stages of disease and his invention of Dip-Pen Nanolithography used to fabricate ...
Yuehua "Tony" Yu, $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize winner, of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presents binary G-gels that could enable a new generation of targeted drug delivery technologies and implantable medical devices.
Geoffrey von Maltzahn, $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winner, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents his inventions in nanomedicine, including a new class of cancer therapeutics and a new paradigm for enhancing drug delivery to tumors.
John Wright, $30,000 Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize winner, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, presents mathematical tools that drastically improve the accuracy of facial recognition systems.