GM Seeks Student Ideas on 3-D Printing, Augmented Reality Devices

General Motors Co. will launch a competition in October among students at four U.S. universities to come up with ideas about applying 3-D printing and so-called augmented reality devices such as Google Glass to the vehicle manufacturing process.

The GM Innovation Challenge is open to students at Georgia Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan and Pennsylvania State University.

Teams at each school have until 10 p.m. Oct. 3 to register HERE. The groups will begin developing ideas on Oct. 6 and present their schemes to GM judges five weeks later. Finalists from each school will assemble in Detroit in Nov. 17-18 for a final evaluation.

GM will award each school's top team $500 per member. The ultimate winning team will get $1,000 per member and internships at GM next summer.