All MIT seniors and graduate students are eligible to apply for the Student Prize. All MIT Seniors and graduate students are eligible to apply. The prize, sponsored by Unisphere Solutions, Inc., will be awarded to a team of five or fewer students based on innovations in the areas of telecommunications and networking technologies. Applications for the Prizes are available through the Lemelson-MIT Awards Program office. Students should contact the Lemelson-MIT Awards Program office or download application materials from its Web site.
Judges are successful scientists, technologists, engineers, and entrepreneurs themselves.
The winners of the Team Prize will be selected by a panel of experts in the field of voice, data and image networking. The winner of the Student Prizes will be notified in February of the awarding year. The winner of the Student Prizes will be announced during a press conference at MIT in February of the awarding year.