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Student Innovator Competition

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The 2025 Berkeley Student Innovator competition is now open!
This award is sponsored by VSP through Jobson’s Rick Bay Foundation for Excellence in Eyecare Education.

The Berkeley Student Innovator Award is a $5,000 scholarship that will reward the most creative, innovative, and feasible idea that is proposed by a student, or a team of up to three students.

Abstracts are due by Monday, March 31st, 2025. The finalists will present their projects on Tuesday, April 22, 2025.

The funding can be used for developing their idea further. Concepts involving clinical eye care, research, practice management, optometric education, health care policy, community education, and technology and social media are encouraged.

This is the 8th year that we are holding this competition. See last year’s winning project by clicking the button below.

2024 Student Innovator