Program Details

Lemelson-MIT Program

The Lemelson-MIT Program celebrates outstanding inventors and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention.

We recognize emerging collegiate inventors whose inventions could impact important sectors of the global economy and honor mid-career inventors with a prestigious cash prize. We also encourage youth to invent and develop their hands-on skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) through two grants initiatives for grades 6-12.

  • Use tools of science as you work hands-on with high-speed cameras, electron microscopes, spectrometers, and more to answer “What…

  • A citizen science initiative from the Early Childhood Cognition Lab at MIT. This website has studies you and your…

  • Edgerton Outreach – Since 1996, our science and engineering field trips have provided primary and secondary school students with activities…

  • MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research is committed to fostering an interest in science and engineering in young…