High School Inventor Teams @ MIT
Posted on December 11, 2008 Comments (7)
Sadly MIT deleted the video after having it live for several years.
Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams is a national grants initiative of the Lemelson-MIT Program to foster inventiveness among high school students. The webcast above shows a high school team presenting a project they completed to create a solution to provide clean water. This stuff is great. I love appropriate technology. I love seeing kids think and create effective solutions to real problems. This is how you get kids to learn – not boring classes (at least kids like me).
The students are passing on the project to students at their school to continue to work on. (MIT TechTV used to have many more presentation by other InvenTeams – not anymore 🙁 ) InvenTeams and MIT deserve a great deal of credit for creating such great learning opportunities and great solutions for the world.
InvenTeams composed of high school students, teachers and mentors are asked to collaboratively identify a problem that they want to solve, research the problem, and then develop a prototype invention as an in-class or extracurricular project. Grants of up to $10,000 support each team’s efforts. InvenTeams are encouraged to work with community partners, specifically the potential beneficiaries of their invention.
Related: Water and Electricity for All – Water Pump Merry-go-Round – Engineering a Better World: Bike Corn-Sheller – Inspiring a New Generation of Inventors – Kids in the Lab: Getting High-Schoolers Hooked on Science
Categories: Engineering, K-12
Tags: appropriate technology, girls, Health Care, inventors, k-12 students, MIT, water
7 Responses to “High School Inventor Teams @ MIT”
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December 11th, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
That sounds like so much fun. When I was in high school we didn’t have projects
to invent anything but we did get to do some work on some fun independant science
projects.
May 15th, 2009 @ 8:12 am
A team of students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be spending part of the summer designing and starting to build solar-powered pasteurization systems for communities in rural Peru…
February 10th, 2010 @ 1:16 pm
According to the United Nations, more than 40 percent of Africans live in poverty, subsisting on less than US$1 a day. As co-founder and CEO of the nonprofit social enterprise KickStart, Fisher develops and markets moneymaking tools such as low-cost, human-powered irrigation pumps…
July 11th, 2010 @ 12:30 pm
I believe strongly in helping those that have not been as lucky to have the opportunities I have economically. Some of my favorite ways to help reduce extreme poverty are Trickle Up, Kiva and using Global Giving…
October 8th, 2010 @ 8:45 am
sOccket won the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, which recognizes the innovators and products poised to change the world…
November 3rd, 2010 @ 1:58 am
i love technology and it great to see how young people are learning for the world.
invention is the future, and hopfully these young people will save the world one day
November 11th, 2010 @ 11:13 am
People should not tie their feeling of their own worth to their income. We don’t talk about it much directly but I see it far too often in the way we discuss things…