Excitement on Student Street

Eric Osman (left)
Lillian Olmey (right)
from Hillsboro High School in Hillboro, OR
Invention: A self installing heads-up display which will fit onto an automobile dashboard.

June 21 2007 - Student Street of the Stata Center has been buzzing with the excitement from the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams Odyssey for the past two days. Young inventors have converged on the Stata Center to display their inventions, made possible with grants from the Lemelson Foundation. Twenty high school teams from around the country were charged with coming up with a problem and solving it. The inventions include topics dealing with health, safety and the environment.

- Karla Mansur
Photos by Jason Dorfman

Sam Deluche (right)
from Hillsboro High School in Hillboro, OR
Invention: A self installing heads-up display which will fit onto an automobile dashboard.

Christopher Young (left)
Joseph Hudson (right)
Huntsville HS Huntsville AR
Invention: A device used for continuous communication between individuals underground and on the surface.

left to right
Jeff, Max, Richard, Ben
Ardsley HS Ardsley, NY
Invention: A telescoping ramp system attached to both sides of a standard wheel chair.