Teams are encouraged to seek the involvement of MIT faculty, alumni, post-docs, researchers, and staff. Always check the entry kit for the appropriate year's Competition for complete eligibility guidelines. We encourage you to contact the teams directly to discuss receiving copies of the plans. A few teams have allowed us to distribute copies of their executive summaries. These are available at our resources page .
Teams can be of any size.
We have found that the most successful teams typically have from three to seven members. You may enter a team with only one member, but you will be unlikely to be successful. You can be a member of as many teams as you want, but it may be seen by the judges as a lack of commitment to making any one of them a success. Most often your efforts are best spent making one entry as strong as possible. On judging day, each group of four judges selects a subset of plans to advocate in the last phase.