Open to ALL undergrad and grad students – take a jab at winning a $200k prize for your renewable energy venture!  

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The MIT Clean Energy Prize (MIT CEP) organizing team today announced a $200,000 grand prize to be awarded in May 2010 for the most innovative clean energy solution. This third annual venture creation competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students across the United States.

Deadline for applications is February 25, 2010. Teams that make it into the semifinals will receive one-on-one mentoring from experienced industry leaders and entrepreneurs.

The competition has proven to be a launching pad for clean energy companies. The 2008 Grand Prize Winner FloDesign Wind Turbine and 2009 Energy Efficiency and Infrastructure semifinalist FastCAP Systems recently were awarded more than $13 million by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Read more at http://bit.ly/4CFDtm