Apply for up to $5,000 to develop a prototype that demonstrates the impact of your innovation.

An opportunity to advance technologies emerging from University of Minnesota research labs, clubs or courses.

Open to Students, Postdocs, Fellows, Research Scientists & Faculty

Apply by December 10!

With support from the National Science Foundation, MIN-Corps is proud to introduce the MVP Challenge, an opportunity for students and researchers to develop “Minimum Viable Product” prototypes.  MVP or “Minimum Viable Product” is a tool to show customers and other stakeholders how your innovation could work.  The MVP Challenge will award 20-30 grants of $1,000 to $5,000 each.

An MVP might just be an illustration, or an early-stage limited function or look-and-feel “alpha” prototype, or an actual working “beta” prototype.

All three options are fair game in the MVP Challenge, because we are looking for “Most Visionary Prototypes” that illustrate the potential of innovations to make a positive difference for people, businesses, society or the environment.

For more info and to apply CLICK HERE