Industrial Design Student Shares Grand Prize in Inventor's Competition
| News Gazette, Champaign - Thurs, October 22 Stephen Diebold, senior in Industrial Design in School of Art & Design, shared the grand prize – his take: $27,000 – in the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition.
Diebold, 21, of Rolling Meadows, is the only undergraduate student ever to win this prize, which he shared with a graduate student at the Harvard Medical School. Diebold was also the only fine arts student to win any prize in the competition. He was cited for his invention of the "Drop Point," a device that helps quadriplegics with everyday tasks. Reuters.com, Wed, October 23, 2009Â Press release
University of Illinois News Bureau, May 1, 2008
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