Award Amount
$10,000
Number of Awards
1
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PETA is awarding prizes of $1,000 to $10,000 to students who come up with a game-changing idea for an invention that the student can develop into a specific action plan or design to replace animal use. This award does not convey ownership rights to PETA or prevent you from patenting your invention.
$10,000
1
60+ min
Other
Applicants must identify an area in which animals are still exploited and create a potentially patentable, original idea or prototype that allows for their replacement.
Inventions should be marketable as a viable alternative to the methods you seek to replace.
Students can work in teams or as individuals.
Proposed inventions must not use anything made from animals or animal-derived materials.
The idea, proposed invention, reduced-to-practice idea, or working model must be the work of an undergraduate or graduate student or team of undergraduate or graduate students, either as a class project or as an independent project, and capable of being reproduced.
Your submission must include substantiation that the invention works (or will work) for its intended purpose.
Multiple undergraduate or graduate students may apply with a single project, but only one award will be disbursed.
Receipt of the award is contingent upon your execution of an award acceptance agreement.
Open to anyone 18 years or older.
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