The CNBC IQ 100 Index powered by M·CAM has been reconstituted for the new year! M·CAM’s David Martin​ made an appearance on CNBC​’s Squawk Box this morning to discuss who’s in and who’s out and why the top-weighted components perform so well.

The IQ 100 consistently outperformed the S&P 500 last year. We’re looking forward to more great things to come in 2018!

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M·CAM was honored to sponsor and provide innovation engineering and technical support for the Centre of Applied Innovation‘s 2017 Victorian Global Innovation Challenge, which concluded with the Grand Final last night in Melbourne.

The winners of the 2017 VGIC were the team from Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School who designed a solar-powered, heated scarf for the homeless population. Runners-up were the team from Parade College who created an online environmental monitoring platform. Congratulations to the winning teams and to all the participants for putting forth amazing solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems.

The students’ Challenge solutions were judged on their ability to integrate ideas from a variety of sources, including patents found in the Global Innovation Commons’ repository of over $2 trillion worth of publicly-accessible innovation. Learn more about the GIC and how it was used for the 2017 Victorian Global Innovation Challenge HERE.

Tune in Thursday to watch M•CAM’s very own, Charles Way pick 6th in the 2017 CNBC Stock Draft || http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000613143

The Senate has invoked the so-called “nuclear option” to confirm Neil Gorsuch to fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court with just a majority vote. CNBC’s John Harwood weighs

CNBC’s Kayla Tausche reports the highlights of talks at Mar-a-Lago with China President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump.