Competitions & Scholarships
One of the most intense learning experiences is competition participation. WPI offers several of its own competitions and promotes open national and international competitions.
Before deciding to compete, we encourage you to understand public disclosure, IP protection, and international patent law basics. Workshops are conducted throughout the year on each of these topics.
WPI students and employees may contact the Collaborative for Entrepreneurship & Innovation for help with competition proposals, or the WPI Technology Transfer Office for help with disclosure of Intellectual Property.
WPI Competitions:
- Elevator Pitch Competition
- WPI Venture Forum Business Plan Competition
- WPI Venture Forum Five-Minute Pitch Contest
- Robert H. Grant Invention Awards
- Strage Innovation Awards
- The Kalenian Award
- Daedalus Innovation Competition - PDF
Scholarships
Open Competitions
- 2010 ASME Innovation Showcase "I-Show" (one student at least must be an AMSE member)
- MIT Clean Energy Prize
- Global Innovation Tournament
- Progressive Automotive X Prize
- Start It Up Fresno's $250K Entrepreneur Challenge
- Evansville New Venture Creation Competition
- Lemelson-MIT Program for Sustainable Change
- Rice University Business Plan Contest
- Wing Lung Bank International Institute for Business Development
- Biomedical Engineering Idea Competition (NCIIA)
- http://www.case.edu/The100KChallenge/
- Rhode Island Business Plan Competition
- Global Social Venture Competition (A competition which values, generates, and accounts for social impact)
- Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition
- The Wake Forest MBA Annual Babcock Elevator Competition
- S.E.E.D. (Spirit of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development) Competition
- Digital Media and Learning Competition
- Queen's Entrepreneurship Competition
- Purdue Life Science Business Plan Contest
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