Contests and academic competitions

Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab students win Microsoft Dream-Build-Play Competition

November 3, 2008

Team Heliotrope demonstrates its sun-tracking technology that won first prize in an MIT competition aimed at developing innovative energy technologies. At left is team member George Whitfield, a graduate student in materials science. His teammate and fellow grad student Vyom Sharma is at right. The third member, Forrest Liau, is not shown. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('madmec-4-enlarged.html','','w...

Sun-tracking device wins student prize

Window coatings, wind generators and power unit also win

September 19, 2008

$25K X-Prize offered for best 'green idea' video

September 16, 2008

MIT class project gets a gold star from Google

'Locale' will let Android cell phones adjust to surroundings

August 29, 2008

Students tackle real-world cases in consulting competition

August 22, 2008

Winners of the 2008 Biocant Ventures Prize from the MIT Portugal Program's Bio-Teams, from left: researcher John Jones and students David Malta, Mariana Fernandes and Tatiana Aguiar.

MIT Portugal students win entrepreneurship competition

Invention could help diagnose muscle wasting

July 23, 2008

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?

May 21, 2008

Members of the grand-prize-winning team in the MIT 100k Competition, from left to right, Krishna Yeshwant, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Hayat Sindi, Carol Waghorne, Jon Puz, Gilbert Tang.

Entrepreneurship contests reward energy, diagnosis plans

May 16, 2008

Students robots in this year's 2.007 contest held at MIT competed in performing beaver-like tasks, including knocking down pool noodle 'trees' and dumping them in a ping-pong ball 'river,' to score points.

Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contest

May 9, 2008

Steel away: Students prepare for bridge contest

May 6, 2008

MIT robot tourney concludes May 7-8

May 5, 2008

MIT's team competes at the International Collegiate Programming Contest.

MIT crowned regional champs in battle of brains

April 11, 2008

MIT third overall in Putnam math competition

March 27, 2008

Math professor and crossword puzzle fiend Kiran Kedlaya works on Friday's New York Times puzzle. He will compete in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament on Feb. 29.

MIT's crossword king girds for annual battle of wits

February 22, 2008

A screenshot of pre-programmed strategies for a match between two of the teams participating in MIT's BattleCode programming competition held during IAP.

Teams battle to on-screen victory

February 6, 2008

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