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Acceptances Announced on May 5, 2023

The Biogen Community Lab and Lemelson-MIT Program invite you to participate in:
Biogen-MIT Biotech in Action: Summer 2023

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The Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam initiative offers an unparalleled opportunity for high school students to cultivate...

Congratulations to the 2019 InvenTeam Rolling Robots for being granted a U.S. Patent for their invention of a system and device to improve sleep quality. This is the 15th...

On July 12, 2022, the Garey High School InvenTeam was awarded a patent for their invention by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This is the 14th patent granted to...

Lemelson-MIT is proud to announce that their upcoming documentary, Pathways to Invention, won numerous awards at the prestigious Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.

Inspired by father's Parkinson disease, Arlington senior invents mobility aid

As appeared in WickedLocal.com, May 4, 2022

Juan Rafael Lenger-Caballero, 17, first met...

The LMIT InvenTeam from Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood, New Jersey, has published the article, Invention as a Complement to High School Chemistry in the Journal of Chemical...

Look for our new IvE stamp of approval!

The 2019-2020 InvenTeam from Greenon, Ohio was awarded a patent on January 25, 2022 for their system to prevent human-made debris in the sewer system from entering local...

The latest InvenTeams' community interactions documented in news interviews, blog entries, video updates, and social media mentions. 

Shriya Srinivasan, the 2020 “Cure it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize graduate winner, has been named to MIT Technology Review’s prestigious annual list of Innovators Under 35. 

MIT professors Michael Cima and Fiona Murray describe the meaningful – often lifesaving – impact of invention in this Op-Ed in CommonWealth Magazine.

2021 Lemelson-MIT Prize winner Hilary Johnson awarded a J-WAFS fellowship for her water solution.

2018 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam educator Phil Arnold from Frederick County Career and Technology Center in Maryland was named The Washington Post's 2021 Teacher of the Year.

This article from the RAND Review discusses a report of the 26 Lemelson-MIT Prize winners and their impacts, written by the RAND Corporation. 

This World IP Day collegiate student inventors recognized for groundbreaking, patentable solutions to issues related to maternal health, energy efficiency, and plastic waste. ...