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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. ...

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

Dorothy Lemelson, co-founder of The Lemelson Foundation, passes away at 94.

All Californians invited to become social enterprise inventors

Congratulations to Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) Northeast High School's 2018 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam on receiving a U.S. Patent!

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

Luis von Ahn, Feng Zhang, and Timothy Swager Honored as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors 

With a spike of COVID-19 surging across many parts of the nation, InvenTeams are applying savvy, and yes inventive, solutions for working in safe, socially distant ways.
 

Kayla Nguyen is a recipient of the L'Oréal USA 2020 For Women in Science (FWIS) Fellowship.

The 2020 Smithtown High School West InvenTeam tells WABC about their plans to develop the "Personal Distance Monitor" to help children with autism manage their personal space...