This program is a unique platform for recognizing and rewarding the nation's most outstanding and innovative undergraduate and graduate students and showcasing the emerging ideas and inventions that will shape our future. National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees serve as judges, evaluating each entry for its originality, inventiveness, scope of use and potential social, environmental or economic value. Finalists earn a trip to Washington, D.C., to represent their universities and present their work to our illustrious panel of judges. Winners enjoy over $100,000 in cash prizes and the opportunity to patent their inventions. The Collegiate Inventors Competition offers students an opportunity that is even more valuable than prizes -- the chance to network with fellow innovators and receive incomparable advice and encouragement.