Weather Forecasting Technique Wins Top Prize in 2006 Collegiate Inventors Competition®
Student innovators receive cash prizes for their novel projects

A new way of forecasting the weather has earned the top honor in the Collegiate Inventors Competition, an annual program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation.co-sponsored by the USPTO.  Matthew Haugland of the University of Oklahoma conducted research based on weather observations in microclimates to create his method.  He was announced as the grand prize winner of the Competition, receiving a $25,000 prize.

This year’s winners also include Craig Hashi and YiQian Zhu of the University of California, Berkeley in the graduate category for their tissue-engineered vascular graft, and Fan Yang of Johns Hopkins University in the undergraduate category for her work with anti-adherent compounds for contact lenses. Hashi and Zhu receive a $15,000 prize, and Yang receives a $10,000 prize.  The 2006 Competition is sponsored by the Abbott Fund and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Calling All Inventors
Enter this Year’s Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge Today

The Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge, co-sponsored by the USPTO, is now accepting entries for the 2007 Modern Marvel of the Year. Created by the History Channel and the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, the Challenge offers a $25,000 grand prize, an opportunity to be featured on the History Channel during a special Great Inventions Week in May, 2007, and the inclusion of your invention in a national exhibit tour.

The deadline for entries is November 20. For more details go to www.invent.org/challenge