What could your highschool do with an extra $10,000? When you
finish your list, keep reading... One inventive way to get that
much needed dough and encourage creative thinking and invention
in your highschool is to form a student invention team and start
tossing around some project ideas now... because applications
begin this Fall for the 2009 competition Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam
grants. "InvenTeams composed of high school students, teachers
and mentors are asked to collaboratively identify a problem that
they want to solve, research the problem, and then develop a
prototype invention as an in-class or extracurricular project.
Grants of up to $10,000 support each team's efforts. InvenTeams
are encouraged to work with community partners, specifically the
potential beneficiaries of their invention." Each year about
twenty highschool teams are awarded up to $10,000 for their
projects. Past winners included inventions such as a "Curb-
conqueror" wheelchair attachment , a continuous positive airway
pressure alert, an