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Young inventors set out to solve old problems

June 20, 2006 /

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For 18 teams of teen inventors, months of brainstorming, building, and testing finally culminated last weekend at the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams Odyssey.

Rather than pitting students against one another for awards, the program vets project ideas at the start of the school year and gives grants of up to $10,000. Each team comes up with its own problem to solve.

When students arrive at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from public and private schools across America, it’s a chance for them to show off prototypes and hear feedback from fellow teams, members of the MIT community, and local businesspeople.

By Stacy A. Teicher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

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