Contests and academic competitions

MIT's solar car Tesseract, which recently place third in the North American Solar Challenge, crosses the border at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Sun shines on solar car team

MIT vehicle takes 3rd place in 2,500-mile race

August 5, 2005

Alumna vies to become Miss Massachusetts

June 21, 2005

IDEAS Competition awards

June 1, 2005

Mark Cote, winner of this year's 2.007 robot competition, gets a congratulatory hug from Professor Alexander Slocum.

Robots go for Tic-Tech-Toe

May 17, 2005

A dancer tests his disco moves on the new East Campus lounge floor.

Disco's staying alive on East Campus

May 16, 2005

The Balico team is shown accepting $30,000 in start-up money at the final awards ceremony of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition held May 9. From left to right: MIT graduate student Baruch Schori, MIT Ph.D. candidates Harry Lee and Kathleen Sienko, and Jimmy Robertsson, a research engineer at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Balance aid wins $50K competition

May 13, 2005

Best investor pitches rewarded

May 11, 2005

Dean Ljubicic, right, scores the winning shot in the 2004 contest, 'The Big Dig.' Co-driver Salvatore Pallante, left, leads a victory cheer.

Robot contest puts design into action

May 4, 2005

Winner of the 'Weird Fields' competition George Zaidan stands beside his winning print, which is hanging in the MIT Museum.

Science becomes art in 'Weird Fields'

March 23, 2005

Owen Fogarty (center), a member of a West Point team competing in the Soldier Design Competition, demonstrates his team's hands-free, casualty-carriage system for Lt. Col. Shawn Reinwald of the U.S. Marine Corps, who judged the competition. Team members Jamie Pittman (wearing the device) and Venkat Motupalli look on.

Battery scavenger system wins MIT Soldier Design Competition

March 8, 2005

The fifth ball is still halfway up the Archimedes screw when this picture was taken. "We knew it took a little over 20 seconds to lift a ball up, so we programmed the robot to remember the last time it picked up a ball and not leave the goal until 30 seconds after this time, if it docked early," said team member Andrew Spann. "The robot docked with about a minute of time remaining, then waited unt...

A robot high for Archimedes Pi

February 1, 2005

"Cookie Monster": One of the puzzle clues in the 2005 IAP Mystery Hunt, by Marcy Levey, Brian Tivol, and Roger Barkan. SOLUTION: First: Recognize the various cookies used to make the cookie monster. Second: Count how many of each cookie is used in the picture. Third: Turn the cookies at the bottom of the picture into letters. If a cookie appears N times in the monster, then replace it with its Nt...

Sleepless in Cambridge, they hunt the mystery coin

January 24, 2005

Smitha Raghunathan operates the Kinkajuice human-powered battery charger designed and built by her and her teammates, including (left to right) Etan Trangle, Jim Lin, Alfredo Bocanegra, Jennifer Hu and Lisa Chandler.

Human, solar power prominent in 2.009 products

December 15, 2004

Siemens Westinghouse science competition New England finalists will compete at MIT this weekend

November 4, 2004

Grad student is finalist in competition

October 6, 2004

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