Lemelson-MIT Program

Marlena Love serves as the Awards Program Officer for the Lemelson-MIT Program, a non-profit STEM initiative funded by the Lemelson Foundation and housed in MIT’’s School of Engineering. Love oversees the National Collegiate Student Prize Competition, a multi-round competition celebrating promising undergraduate and graduate collegiate inventors from across the country. The competition is entering its second year after existing in a previous iteration as a campus-based prize and currently offers prizes for inventions in health care and consumer devices. The Lemelson-MIT Program celebrates outstanding inventors and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention.