Student team from MIT wins the $100K Buckminster Fuller Challenge prize for their innovative urban mobility system

2009 Challenge Winner

Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility-on-Demand Systems (SPM/MoD), submitted by an interdisciplinary team of students at MIT has been selected as the winner of the prestigious 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The team will receive a $100,000 prize at a conferring ceremony on June 6th, 2009 at 2pm at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago followed by a reception and celebration featuring a presentation by design innovator Bruce Mau.

To learn more about the winner, the runner-up, and the honorable mentions visit: http://challenge.bfi.org

To read all the entries submitted to the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, visit the Idea Index.