The MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is a year-long educational experience designed to encourage students and researchers in the MIT community to act on their talent, ideas and energy to produce tomorrow’s leading firms. Now in its 20th year, the Competition has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and business startup services to outstanding teams of student entrepreneurs who submitted business plans for new ventures showing significant business potential. The refinement process of the Competition, its network of mentors, investors and potential partners, and the cash prizes awarded have helped many of these teams to act on their dreams and build their own companies and fortunes.
The IDEAS Competition is an annual public service competition that provides an opportunity for members of the MIT community to develop creative ideas for projects that make a positive change in the world—locally, nationally or internationally. Participants work in teams and with community partners to develop a feasible, innovative, and effective solution to a real community problem or need.
The MIT Global Challenge connects students with the passion and talent to improve the world with the experience and resources of the MIT community worldwide. We support innovation and entrepreneurship as public service through an annual competition that awards up to $25,000 per team for the best ideas to tackle barriers to well being. Get started today! Developed in conjunction with MIT's celebration of 150 years of service to the world and built on the success of the IDEAS Competition, the Global Challenge offers a window into innovation at MIT and invites students, faculty, staff, alumni, and their collaborators to identify and address community development challenges through innovation and collaboration in communities around the world. IDEAS and Global Challenge teams are often inspired by the rich innovation ecology at MIT that includes the D-Lab family of courses, Development Ventures at the MIT Media Lab, engineering courses like 2.009, and many others.
http://globalchallenge.mit.edu
The MIT Clean Energy Prize is a venture creation and innovation competition that was established in 2008 to encourage innovation in the energy space, specifically with regard to clean energy.
The goal of the competition is to provide learning opportunities for and reward student ventures that demonstrate a high potential of successfully making clean energy more affordable, with a positive impact on the environment. By focusing on student ventures, we aim to train the next generation of clean energy entrepreneurs. The competition is a year-long educational process that culminates in the selection of five category finalists and a Grand Prize winner and the distribution of cash prizes to each of those teams. In order to enter the competition, teams must meet our eligibility requirements and adhere to our rules.
Since 2008, over 200 student teams from more than 60 U.S. universities have entered the competition. By the end of the 2010 competition, more than $800,000 in cash prizes will have been awarded.
The winners are selected each year by esteemed judges including technology experts, industry leaders, policy-makers, legal experts, investors and experienced entrepreneurs.
http://www.mitcep.org/