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The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance hosts Open Minds, a collegiate invention showcase featuring sustainable, emerging market and biomedical solutions View social media release: http://pitch.pe/VoAEsB WASHINGTON, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) will host its seventeenth annual Open Minds showcase of student invention and innovation in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, March 23, 2013 from...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy Awards would be much less colorful without the innovations in 1930s and '40s Hollywood filmmaking that the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation will showcase in its upcoming "Places of Invention" exhibition, set to open in 2015. Initiative and creativity drove Hollywood's "Golden Age"--a time of great technological change in the motion picture industry, moving from silent and black-and-white to...
Selected graduate and undergraduate students to train alongside national peers to catalyze innovation and venture development activity at universities HADLEY, Mass., Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) and its partner the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) today announced an expansion of their successful Student Ambassadors program. The program, founded in 2009, trains student...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovation in American elections has never been "politics as usual," as audiences will learn when the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation presents "Political Machines: Innovations in Campaigns and Elections" Nov. 2 - 3 at the National Museum of American History. The event will shift the current political focus away from the candidates to view elections through the lens of technology and...
Martin Valenzuela's ROP Principles of Engineering students will spend nine months developing an ozone water purification system designed to serve communities with no access to clean water. The Los Alamitos High School students will showcase a prototype of the product at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts in late June. Los Alamitos, CA (PRWEB) October 20, 2012 North Orange County Regional Occupational Program (ROP) pre-engineering high school students will spend the year inventing and...
PHILADELPHIA, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), an educational nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting invention and innovation on college and university campuses nationwide, has announced the winners for the eighth annual Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Award (BMEidea), a national competition celebrating graduate and undergraduate student inventors. The winners were...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), an educational nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting invention and innovation on college and university campuses nationwide, will host its 16th annual Open Minds showcase of student innovation Thursday, March 22 at the Hub Bay Area in San Francisco. The event, which is supported by The Lemelson Foundation and Silicon Valley Bank, will be host to a...
2012 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index reveals barriers and drivers to becoming US inventors The 2012 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index , announced today, indicates that young Americans are acutely aware of the importance of invention and innovation in their personal lives, and within the context of the nation's economy. Yet most feel there are factors that would prevent them from furthering education in or entering inventive fields, posing a threat to the pool of future U.S. innovators and the...
WASHINGTON and INGELHEIM, Germany, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Boehringer Ingelheim and Ashoka Changemakers have announced that thirteen finalists have been selected in the first Boehringer Ingelheim Making More Health competition. The online competition is part of a three-year global initiative to identify and support the most promising solutions to challenging health problems around the world. The public is now invited to vote to determine the competition's three winners, who will each...
NEW YORK, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the NCIIA presented cash prizes to three university biomedical engineering teams in recognition of their leading work in the field. This year's winners of the Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Award (BMEidea) Competition--a national competition celebrating student biomedical innovation--were announced during the Medical Design Excellence Awards ceremony at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East trade...
