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Jon Salz was a semi-finalist in the TopCoder Collegiate Championship.

Coding competition makes good spectator sport

May 8, 2002

Students built tiny motors to participate in a contest in freshman physics class.

Motor contest revs up physics class

April 10, 2002

The MIT programming team works on a problem at the world finals of the ACM computer programming contest in Honolulu last month. Left to right: Sophomore Percy Liang, freshman Reid Barton and sophomore John Danaher came in second place, the best MIT finish in more than two decades.

Students take second in computer programming competition

April 10, 2002

Uzamere

EECS sophomore wins Martin Luther King oratory contest

March 20, 2002

Students promote new businesses in Ghana with workshop and

March 13, 2002

Contest seeks inventions designed for public service

February 6, 2002

The Angstrom Medica team won the $50K competition. Left to right: Anne Shehab, Darren Obrigkeit, Sudhir Borgonha and Edward Ahn.

Graduate students win $50K, defend theses on same day

May 23, 2001

MIT students display creativity in new mechanical engineering products

December 14, 2000

Students in 2.009 came up with some useful inventions, including Laddy, a ladder/dolly/motorized tool lift. Putting the finishing touches on Laddy are Heather Marshall (left), Elizabeth Ellingson (crouching) and Kathee Lee, all seniors in mechanical engineering.

Students display creativity in product presentations

December 13, 2000

High schoolers vie in competition

November 8, 2000

Students win prizes in writing competition

November 1, 2000

Left to right: Eric Wilhelm, Professor Joseph Jacobson and Colin Bulthaup at the Collegiate Inventors award ceremony

Graduate students win inventors competition

October 4, 2000

Totally tubular teens

August 9, 2000

Showing off some of the Air Camel's finer features are the aircraft's designer/builders, all students in aeronautics and astronautics. Left to right: Larry Baskett, Allen Chen, Larry Pilkington, Jacob Markish (partly hidden) and Bernard Ahyou. Not pictured are Carol Cheung, Dan Benhammou and Adam Diedrich.

Aero/astro student design team takes plane to contest on plains

May 17, 2000

EyeGen takes top prize in $50K competition

May 17, 2000