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RIT student video game wins Best in Show at Boston Festival of Indie Games
The Gristmill, a digital card game created by RIT students, won Best in Show and Best Student Game at the Boston Festival of Indie Games, held Sept. 14. To win the top prize, the RIT game beat out more than 40 selected digital games, including indie projects created by professionals.

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2019 Oct 1
Winners announced for RIT/NTID Next Big Idea entrepreneurship competition
Five teams of deaf and hard-of-hearing students from Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf went head-to-head March 28 during The Next Big Idea business competition.

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2019 Apr 29
RIT wins regional collegiate cyber defense competition
A team of Rochester Institute of Technology cybersecurity students is heading to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) after taking first place at the regional competition March 15-17.

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2019 Mar 22
Developers of emergency mass notification clock win RIT's first STEAM contest
A team of three computer engineering majors has developed a prototype for an emergency mass notification clock, which won the top prize and $5,000 in Rochester Institute of Technology's first STEAM competition.

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2018 May 4

Winners announced for RIT/NTID Next Big Idea competition
Five teams of deaf and hard-of-hearing students from Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf went head-to-head April 25 during The Next Big Idea Competition, a Shark Tank-style business competition.

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2018 Apr 30

Student games showcased at GDC 2018
Four student-developed games were showcased at the 2018 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week.

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2018 Mar 30
RIT teams win national packaging design challenge
Four of eight student design teams from Rochester Institute of Technology that were entered in the national Paperboard Packaging Alliance competition were awarded top placements for excellence in design.

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2017 Oct 6
RIT computing students win top prizes at MIT Hacking Medicine hackathon
Two Rochester Institute of Technology students took home top prizes in a hackathon where computing skills can be used to help solve some of health care's biggest challenges.

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2017 Jun 8
RIT takes second at Northeast regional cyber defense competition
A team of RIT students took second place at the annual Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. The annual event is part of the nation's largest college-level cyber defense competition, an extracurricular event that helps to train the next generation of cybersecurity experts.

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2018 Mar 21
Kailey Bradt wins first place at New York State Business Plan Competition
Kailey Bradt, a student in RIT's Master of Science in product development program from Corning, N.Y., won first place and $10,000 in the "Products" category at the eighth annual New York Business Plan Competition.

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2017 May 15

Students present at RIT/NTID Student Research Fair
More than 30 students participated in the annual Student Research Fair at Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf on April 28.

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2017 May 11

RIT team wins New York State Game Development Challenge
An RIT team won first place in the student category of the first-ever New York State Game Development Challenge.

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2017 May 9
RIT team heads to National Collegiate Cyber Defense championship
A group of RIT students will take on teams from the country's top cybersecurity colleges in the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, held April 13-15 in San Antonio.

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2017 Apr 13
Winners announced for RIT/NTID Next Big Idea competition
Four teams of deaf and hard-of-hearing students from Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf went head-to-head April 26 during The Next Big Idea Competition, a Shark Tank-style business competition.

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2017 May 1
Saunders College students have winning edge in Glo-Bus simulation competition
Two Rochester Institute of Technology student teams from Saunders College of Business were named Global Top 100 Performers in a head-to-head competition against 2,084 teams from 122 worldwide colleges and universities.

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2017 Apr 26
Saunders College students earn trip to compete in Macy's Marketing Challenge 2017
Four Saunders College of Business students earned first place in the Macy's Undergraduate Marketing Challenge 2017 and will present their "pillar of exclusivity" marketing plan to company executives in New York City on Wednesday.

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2017 Apr 10
RIT wins regional cyber defense competition, advances to national championship
A team of Rochester Institute of Technology cybersecurity students is heading to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition after taking first place at the regional competition March 17-19.

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2017 Mar 23
RIT Theme Park Enthusiasts sweep awards in national engineering competition
Six members of Rochester Institute of Technology's Theme Park Enthusiasts made a clean sweep in Orlando, Fla., by winning every award in a national competition to design amusement park rides.

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2016 Dec 5
RIT team finishes third in Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition
College students from Maine to California traveled to Rochester Institute of Technology Nov. 4-6 to test their hacking skills in the annual Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition. The competition allows students to learn about cybersecurity from a different vantage point-offense, as opposed to defense. Teams from 10 national universities faced-off at RIT as they broke into computer networks, evaluated their weak points and presented plans to better secure them.

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2016 Nov 11
RIT team wins global U.S. State Department challenge aimed at combating terrorism
"It's Time: ExOut Extremism," a social media campaign created by Rochester Institute of Technology students, took top prize in a global challenge conducted by the U.S. State Department aimed at finding ways to counter terrorist propaganda online.

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2016 Jun 28
NTID team wins National Association of the Deaf College Bowl
A student team from Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf has won the National Association of the Deaf College Bowl academic competition for the third consecutive year, and earned its sixth victory overall.

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2016 Aug 24
RIT takes second at Northeast regional cyber defense competition
A team of RIT students took second place at the annual Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held March 11-13 at the University of Maine.

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2016 Mar 18
Winner announced in 2016 Imagine RIT poster contest
The winning design in this year's Imagine RIT poster contest was created by Kelly Hurlburt, a third-year student majoring in new media design at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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2016 Mar 18
RIT students to compete on ABC's 'BattleBots' competition
Four RIT students will be competing in the second season of BattleBots, the hit TV show in which robots duel to the death. The team flies to Los Angeles in April.

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2016 Mar 17
Student on first-place team at U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Hackathon
Briana Neuberger was on the winning team at the recent U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation's GEOINT Hackathon held at DigitalGlobe offices in Herndon, Va.

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2015 Jun 26
Student on first-place team at U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Hackathon
Dan Simon was on the winning team at the recent U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation's GEOINT Hackathon held at DigitalGlobe offices in Herndon, Va.

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2015 Jun 26
RIT/NTID Team wins NAD College Bowl
For the second consecutive time, a team from RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf won the National Association of the Deaf College Bowl Championship for deaf and hard-of-hearing college students.

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2014 Jul 9
RIT/NTID Team wins NAD College Bowl
For the second consecutive time, a team from RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf won the National Association of the Deaf College Bowl Championship for deaf and hard-of-hearing college students.

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2014 Jul 9
Student team wins Next Big Idea contest
Three students from Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf say their days of oversleeping may soon be a thing of the past after winning this year's "Next Big Idea" competition to better the lives of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.

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2014 May 12
RIT engineering students win national material handling competition
For the second year in a row, undergraduate engineering students from Rochester Institute of Technology took top honors in the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education student design competition.

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2014 Feb 21