The fifth annual Young Inventors Awards 2004 hosted by the 'Far Eastern Economic Review' in association with Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific is now open for submission.

The Awards recognise, honor and encourage the achievements of students in Asia Pacific who see novel ways in doing things that enhance quality of life in a significant or meaningful way.

Staff can nominate recently completed student projects or those still underway but nearing completion.

These projects can be in any field of study, but should display fresh thinking and the spirit of invention.

Projects will be judged together with entries from other tertiary institutions across the Asia Pacific, based on their creativity, originality, completeness, feasibility and the potential economic, societal or environmental impact.

The top three winners will receive HP computer equipment and an all-expenses-paid trip to visit HP Labs in Palo Alto California.

Representative universities of the winners will receive cash prizes of between US$2500 to US$7500.

Winners will be profiled in 'Far Eastern Economic Review' magazine.

The deadline for submissions is October 22.

Details about the awards will be available on www.young-inventors.feer.com .

For inquiry, please email to younginventors@feer.com