Posts Tagged ‘college’

Alt-Energy Challenge Deadline Extended

Monday, July 26th, 2010

LegalZoom Named as Primary Sponsor
Due to demand, Inventors Digest has extended the deadline for the 2010 Collegiate Alt-Energy Challenge.
The Challenge deadline is now Aug. 31 – running throughout National Inventors Month –  giving U.S. college students and teams more time to hone and submit their 2-minute Web videos.
Inventors Digest also is proud to name LegalZoom [...]

Who Owns Patents: Students or Universities?

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Q. As a college student who is inventing new technologies and products on campus as part of my coursework, can I be assigned a patent, or does the patent have to go to the school?

A. It depends.
University research and intellectual property policies are perhaps as numerous and varied as the number and variety of [...]

2010 Collegiate Alt-Energy Challenge

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Inventors Digest, the nation’s longest-running media outlet for the inventing industry, is now taking submissions for the 2010 Collegiate Alt-Energy Challenge.

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The Challenge, part of National Inventors Month in August this year, will award cash and other prizes for the most innovative low-cost, alternative energy-related solutions, products or technologies.
A quarter of the [...]

3 Vie for Our Top Video Prize

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

The votes have been tallied and the results are in – three college student teams will vie for a shot at $800 at the 2010 March Madness for the Mind exhibition in San Francisco this Saturday.
Inventors Digest hosted more than a dozen student videos in partnership with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, which [...]

March Madness for the Mind – Vote Now!

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

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Energize Our World Contest

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Save the Planet One Kilowatt at a Time
Colleges – Sign Up for Your Free Poster Now
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Inventors Digest is hosting the national 2010 Collegiate Alt-Energy Challenge.
We’d like to ship colleges and universities 10 free posters announcing the event. High-resolution PDF versions also are available.
Simply provide your contact information and shipping [...]

Power 2.0

Monday, March 8th, 2010

College Students & the Generation of New Energy

By Mike Drummond
Dell, Facebook, Google and Microsoft all have one thing in common. Each was started by college students.
You arguably could throw in Apple. But founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, while college age-ish when they first met in 1968, didn’t meet on campus.
Nonetheless, there’s something about dorm [...]

Edible Advertising

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Inkjet Printer Transforms the Surface of Drinks
By Tom Samph

Oleksiy Pikalo, a Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer, created a new medium for advertising: the surface of drinks.
Pikalo’s invention, a beverage art printer, sprays a thin layer of caramel on the surface of any foamy drink, transforming a milky latte or an amber Guinness into a canvas. The [...]