Spirit of Innovation Awards

Submitted by admin on December 14, 2010 - 10:52am.

Challenging high school students to create innovative products using science, technology, and entrepreneurship to solve real-world, 21st century problems.

The Spirit of Innovation Awards program, challenges students to solve real world problems by creating innovative products in three fields of science: Clean Energy, Aerospace Exploration and Cyber Security. Using science, technology and entrepreneurship, student teams develop innovative products to compete for over $80,000 of funding, and support to pursue the commercialization of their ideas. All Finalists receive $2000 to present at the Innovation Summit at the NASA Ames Center in Silicon Valley, California. Winning teams are recognized as Pete Conrad Scholars and awarded $5000 to continue developing their product along with exclusive memberships, scholarships, and endless opportunities to commercialize their innovation. This competition is brought to you through the support of Lockheed Martin Corporation.

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