Our friends at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and partner Olympus, is calling for nominations for the seventh annual Olympus Innovation Awards Program.
The program recognizes those who have fostered or demonstrated innovative thinking in education.
Students, faculty and others at NCIIA institutions of higher learning in the U.S. can review qualification guidelines by logging on to www.nciia.org/login until October 13, 2010. To submit a nominee for the Olympus Innovation Awards Program, click here http://nciia.org/competitions/olympus.
The annual awards are given to faculty nominees chosen from among the nearly 200 member institutions of NCIIA, a national network of colleges and universities fostering invention, innovation and entrepreneurship in U.S. higher education.
The Program includes three awards, the Olympus Innovation Award, the Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award and the Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award.
The award categories are:
The Olympus Innovation Award recognizes a faculty member who fosters an environment of innovative thinking among students through inventive teaching methods and hands-on educational opportunities. The winner will receive a $10,000 prize.
The Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award recognizes a faculty member who has
demonstrated a sustained contribution throughout his or her career to stimulating and inspiring innovative thinking in students at their own universities and throughout academia. The winner will receive a $2,500 prize.
The Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award recognizes an individual who has inspired innovative thinking in students in a discrete area and whom the judges believe has the potential to make even greater contributions to the field in the future. The winner will receive a $1,000 prize.
