{"65952":{"#nid":"65952","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Invent Now Collegiate Inventors Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Invent Now\nCollegiate Inventors Competition is now accepting entries for the 2011\nCompetition\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;For the last twenty-one\nyears the Collegiate Inventors Competition has recognized and honored student\ninventors whose inventions one day could make significant contributions to\nsociety. This year over $75,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winning\nundergraduate and graduate students and their advisors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The deadline for the 2011\nCompetition is June 24. \u0026nbsp; Entries are judged on their originality, their\npotential impact on society, and the level of student initiative.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\nExpert judges select up to 12 finalists who receive an all-expense paid trip to\nthe final judging round and awards ceremony in Washington D.C., held in the\nfall.\u0026nbsp; National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees participate in the final\nround of judging and have included Thomas Fogarty, inventor of the balloon\nembolectomy catheter; George Smith, 2009 Nobel Prize recipient and inventor of\nthe charge-coupled device; and James West, inventor of the electret microphone. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Alice Chen, a 2010\nGraduate winner from the Harvard\/MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program\nsays that \u201cparticipating in the Collegiate Inventors Competition was a\nphenomenal experience from beginning to end\u2026\u0026nbsp;it was a chance to get\nreal-time feedback from engaged scientific and patent experts on both technical\nand commercial aspects of my work and above all, it was an opportunity to share\nmy mutual passion for invention with other equally passionate students.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESponsors of the 2011\nCompetition include the Abbott Fund and the United States Patent and Trademark\nOffice.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEntry forms and more\ninformation on the program are available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.invent.org\/collegiate\u0022\u003Ewww.invent.org\/collegiate\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInvent Now Collegiate Inventors Competition\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Registration deadline June 24, 2011"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2011-05-04 12:59:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:58","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-06-24T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-06-24T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-06-24T19:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-06-24 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-06-24 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-06-24 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.invent.org\/collegiate","title":"Invent Now website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13047","name":"Invent Now Collegiate Inventors Competition"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERini Paiva\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}