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News Release 14-123
NSF announces the Community College Innovation Challenge
Students compete for cash prizes and professional coaching to develop STEM-based solutions for issues of local to global concern
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Sustainability is among the challenge areas for students to offer innovative solutions.
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Teams must be comprised of three to five community college students, one faculty adviser and a community or industry representative.
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The Community College Innovation Challenge seeks to identify STEM-based solutions to society's greatest challenges.
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The National Science Foundation's Community College Innovation Challenge asks community college students to propose innovative STEM-based (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) solutions to perplexing, real-world problems. Teams submitting top ideas receive professional coaching and cash prizes.
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