Contests and academic competitions

MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize established to drive innovative ideas to market

$200,000 cash for top prize to be awarded by NSTAR and DOE

November 28, 2007

Siemens Competition finalists exhibit projects at MIT Nov. 9-10

November 8, 2007

The team from Peking Unversity, winners of the fourth annual iGEM competition.

Hundreds attend iGem Jamboree

November 5, 2007

MIT's self-driving Land Rover takes to the road. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('urban-truck-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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MIT finishes fourth in DARPA challenge for robotic vehicles

November 5, 2007

MIT's 'robocar' negotiated a course without a driver to advance to the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge.

MIT's 'robocar' named a finalist in DARPA Urban Challenge

November 1, 2007

MIT's Solar7 home, designed and built by students and displayed here at the Solar Decathlon contest in Washington, D.C., was popular with visitors and inspired plans for the 2009 competition.

Department of silver linings: Solar Decathlon team looks ahead

November 1, 2007

MIT hosts first ever Elevator Pitch Contest

October 31, 2007

Management senior Rebecca Oman, biology senior Chensi Ouyang and mechanical engineering senior Ellann Cohen together pilot the vessel Ship Happens. The team won the Head of the Zesiger cardboard boat regatta held Oct. 19.

Cardboard boaters sink or skim

October 24, 2007

A good luck send-off for 'Robocar'

October 17, 2007

Many hands volunteered in the making of MIT's solar house.

Make hay (and a lot more) while the sun shines

MIT team aims to win annual solar house contest in Washington

October 3, 2007

Sophomore Xavier Gonzalez, right, shows his team's poster to judge Cora Leibig, an MIT alum who works at Dow Chemical. Gonzalez' team, Biogas Nicaragua, finished second in the MADMEC contest, held Sept. 25, 2007. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('madmec-1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Students shape materials for their own devices

September 27, 2007

Solar7: Nothing like the sun

September 10, 2007

Doctoral candidate Jhingran is public speaking champion

August 21, 2007

MIT engineering student seeks public speaking championship

August 15, 2007

MIT's entry for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge competition is a self-piloted Land Rover LR3.

DARPA names MIT's 'robocar' a semifinalist

August 9, 2007

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