[Editors] Invitation to InvenTeams Odyssey June 9 and 10 at MIT

[Kristin Joyce]

Dear Editors,

What could a team of high school students invent with $10,000? How 
about a storm drain waste remover, robotic tennis ball retriever, or 
children's soap dispenser? Students and teachers from the 2005 
Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams will come to MIT for the InvenTeams Odyssey, 
an event to highlight and honor their work - next Thursday and Friday 
(June 9 and 10). Through the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams initiative, 13 
teams of high school students nationwide received grants of up to 
$10,000 to develop an invention to address a problem of their 
choosing during the 2004-2005 school year.

The InvenTeams Odyssey will feature the InvenTeams and their projects 
in the following
activities, open to the MIT community and public:

Invention Showcase: Thursday, June 9, 10 a.m. - noon at Stata Center 
Student Street
Teams will display and demonstrate inventions created throughout the 
school year.

Invention Presentations: Thursday, June 9, 1:30 - 5 p.m., MIT 34-101; 
Friday, June 10, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., MIT 34-101
An in-depth look into each team's invention process. (Presentations 
last approx. 20 min. each)

Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams is an outreach component of the Lemelson-MIT 
Program administered at MIT to provide resources and inspiration to 
make invention and innovation more accessible to today's youth. For 
more information visit www.inventeams.org.

We hope to see you there.

Regards,
Kristin Joyce

-- 
*I am normally in the office Monday through Thursday*

Kristin Joyce, Communications Officer
The Lemelson-MIT Program
MIT School of Engineering
77 Mass. Ave., E60-216
Cambridge, MA  02139

phone:	617-258-0632
fax:	617-258-8276
http://web.mit.edu/invent
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