TOMMY AWARDS®
ABOUT THE TOMMY
Supporting & Rewarding Innovation
The TOMMY is an award created by the Edison Innovation Foundation for distribution to candidates who have invented innovative products or services, especially those who have used innovation to benefit humanity, like Thomas Edison did. There are no age, gender or nationality limitations to who can receive this award.
The first TOMMYs were given to the winners of an Innovator of the Year contest run by the National Museum of Education and has continued for over twenty years. The Edison Innovation Foundation has sponsored many of these awards over the years, along with partnering organizations such as Intel, The National Gallery for America's Young Inventors, and New Jersey Institute of Technology.
If you are a company or foundation interested in partnering with the Edison Innovation Foundation to sponsor your own TOMMY award for innovation, reach out to us here.
Our Mission:
"The Edison Innovation Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the Edison Legacy and encourages students (including women and minorities) to embrace careers in science, technology, and engineering and is committed to educating the next generation of great innovators while using Edison and his Invention Factory as the foundation."
Edison TOMMY Humanitarian Award 2019
SAFE WATER NETWORK
Tom Gibbons, Kurt Soderlund, and Josh Weston
Safe Water Network develops a "safe water station" in third world countries, such as Ghana and India, which delivers reliable and affordable drinking water to communities in need through innovative technology and operations systems that provide economic drive to communities. Their network acts as an innovation lab to simplify operations, lower costs, and standardize their model for replication.
Notre Dame Edison Innovation Award 2019
TRUNG T. NGUYEN
Diabetic Foot Ulcer Drug
Each year, The University of Notre Dame presents the TOMMY award to one graduate student or postdoctoral researcher who embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Thomas Edison and has worked on steps of innovation with their project.
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CURRENT WINNERS
Below are some TOMMY AWARDS given in 2019 for innovation in science, technology, medicine, and more.
NJIT Edison Innovation Award 2019
ALISSA LOPEZ
Student, Sincere Sitter
THOMAS WIGGINS
CEO of Auraponics
The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Business center hosts the NJIT Acceleration Challenge. Two TOMMY awards are given to an NJIT student and an entrepreneur in the community.
NMOE Edison Innovation Award 2019