For the second consecutive year, students from Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Film and Animation took home the top prize at the Sleepless in Lake Placid 24-hour Film Competition earlier this summer.

On July 23, a group of graduate students were honored for excellence at RIT's 5th annual Graduate Student Research and Creativity Symposium.

Adam Munich, who is entering his second year as a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, has won the Engibous Prize at the Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest and Summit in Dallas. Munich was among 450 collegiate participants in the sixth annual contest held last week.

Four students have been named winners in RIT's SpiRIT Writing Contest for deaf or hard-of-hearing high school students, sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

Student rock-climbers reach new heights at 2013 National Championship

Third time's the charm for Rochester Institute of Technology's cyber defense team. After being bested in the finals for two years in a row, an RIT team took home the first-place trophy for the first time ever at the 2013 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Team members include:

Four Rochester Institute of Technology students put on a gold-medal performance at the Sleepless in Lake Placid 24 Hour Film Competition. Team members include:

The all-female Women in Engineering@RIT Hot Wheelz team went 100 meters in just under six seconds to win the first e-dragster race at this year's Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 5 at Rochester Institute of Technology. Team members included:

RIT Team Wins Material Handling Design Competition

Seven Rochester Institute of Technology students were part of the winning collegiate design team that took first place in the 2012 RIT Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineering student design contest. The team designed and built a 31-inch autonomous humanoid robot platform nicknamed "TigerBot" for their senior design project. The humanoid is scaled to a human model and has the ability to mimic human movement and behavior. The innovative robot went beyond the requirements for the senior design project with autonomous and wireless control, object avoidance, environmental interaction, camera vision, voice control and has the ability to balance. Team members included:

RIT student earns achievement.

RIT student earns achievement.

An RIT team took first place for the third time in five years in the annual Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition March 9-11 in Franklin, Mass. The team included the following students: