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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 8, 2011
Lisa Grovenstein, 404-894-8835
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Winners of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s InVenture Prize will be selected by a panel of judges who are very familiar with entrepreneurship and marketing their own inventions.
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InVenture Prize LogoWinners of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s InVenture Prize will be selected by a panel of judges who are very familiar with entrepreneurship and marketing their own inventions.
The InVenture Prize is an innovation competition for Georgia Tech undergraduate students who work independently or in teams to create inventions. Seven finalists have been selected to compete for $35,000 in prize money and free U.S. patent filings. Students will present their inventions during a live Georgia Public Broadcasting program televised from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Robert Ferst Center for the Arts on March 9 at 7 p.m.
The 2011 InVenture Prize judges are:
Returning as the InVenture Prize co-hosts are Miles O’Brien, an award-winning 27-year broadcast news veteran specializing in aviation, space, science, the environment and technology; and Bahereh Azizi, a researcher and support manager in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Free tickets to the InVenture Prize broadcast are available at http://inventureprize.gatech.edu/tickets. In addition to airing on Georgia Public Broadcasting, the 2011 Georgia Tech InVenture Prize competition will be streamed online at www.gpb.org.
