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June 20, 2008, 03:13 PM ET
MIT Honors the Inventive Spirit
A tree climbing robot that helps coconut harvesters in Indonesia, a “fish escalator” that lifts salmons over dams and an electric motorcycle with safety improvements for urban commuters are just a few of the inventions that the public attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s EurekaFest next week will be able to learn about.
The festival, a celebration of the inventive spirit, will be held at MIT and the Museum of Science in Boston June 25-28. It’s an initiative of the Lemelson-MIT Program that aims to inspire young people and encourage creativity and problem solving through a myriad of events, most of them open to the public.
On Thursday, the MIT campus will hold presentations of the winners of the Lemelson-MIT Awards. The recipients will answer questions from the public and of teams of student inventors.
The Boston Museum of Science will hold several EurekaFest events on Saturday, such as “Heavy Metal: Amped on Wind Power,” where 200 high school students from across the country will be challenged to create a wind turbine that can lift a garbage can to the ceiling of the museum.—Maria José Viñas
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