EUREKA! Student Entrepreneurship Awards 2012
Joan F. and John M. Thalheimer EUREKA! Competition Series Grand Prize
UVS Technologies: Douglas Kirk ‘14G
UVS Technologies is a provider of unmanned aerial systems to provide thermal imaging for precision agriculture to provide the grower with information to assist in crop growth and limit losses.
Baer Social Venture Competition Awards
First Place
SEAD: Ghana: Katherine McCarthy ’12, Olivia Palma ’13, Katey Fardelmann ‘12G, Victoria Herrmann ‘12
Sustainable Empowerment through Agricultural Development (SEAD): Ghana is a nonprofit organization working with the community of Ajumako, Ghana, to combat underproductive agriculture. SEAD worked with the Kofi Annan Vocational Institute to introduce techniques of Conservation Agriculture to the school and surrounding community.
Second Place
WISE, LLC: Michael German ‘14G, Surapol Padungthon ‘15G
With the aim of preventing the debilitating diseases of arsenicosis and fluorosis, their product, based on new hybrid anion exchange resins, effectively removes arsenic and fluoride in a sustainable manner. It is expected to enter Indian markets in areas with high fluoride contamination after spring 2012.
Third Place
South Caucasus Art Partnership: Victoria Herrmann ‘12
The Curatorial and Education Workshop on Contemporary Art and Regional Cooperation aims to create an environment that fosters cooperation and sustainable, cross-cultural partnerships through contemporary art creation, exhibitions, and education between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia that at present may be hindered by political and ethnic preconceptions. This workshop would take place in the summer of 2012 in Tbilisi, Georgia and would be hosted by the Center for Contemporary Art in Tbilisi.
Honorable Mention
Fashion For a Cause: Taylor Durovsik ‘13
Fashion For a Cause is a Web-based community that teams up high-end designers, retail stores, generous donors and shelters to create an easy way for low-income women at shelters to receive shipments of clothing from the companies, providing them with a necessary wardrobe, whether for a job interview or a date. Clothing companies list any excess product from the previous season, and women’s shelters go on the website and have these donations shipped to them for distribution.
Davis Projects for Peace Award
EWB: Clean Water System in La Fragosa, Honduras
Daniel DePietro ‘ 13, Josh Bryant ’13, Hannah Marker ’14 and Michelle LaSorda ‘12
Engineers Without Borders (LU-EWB) is a multidisciplinary group of students dedicated to learning about and tackling issues of global poverty, international development, and sustainability. This partnership involves implementing sustainable engineering systems that developing communities can own and operate without external assistance, empowering such communities by enhancing local, technical, managerial, and entrepreneurial skills.
Michael W Levin ’87 Advanced Technology Award
First Place
ChallTech: Chris Hall ‘13
ChallTech develops mobile applications that will not only serve as a benefit to the end-user, but foster a creative, ethical, and innovative development process. It aims to provide users with the knowledge and skills to succeed in an ever-evolving market of technologies and features.
Second Place
COFTEK: Matthew Fuchs ‘12G, Ukrit Thamma ‘12G
This business targets the spread of skin infections in sports activities through use of aqueous ozone, which not only prevents and eliminates germs such as MRSA but also can deodorize and clean. Starting by developing technology to target sports gear, our business aims to grow into a complete system for preventing and eliminating skin infections in the entire sports programs such as facilities, gear/equipment and personal hygiene.
Third Place
R3GA: Rachael Freedman ’14, Stephanie Potter ‘14
R3GA is a three-dimensional graphing assistant designed to advance the understanding and facilitate the teaching of three-dimensional concepts.
Honorable Mentions
E-Gow-Rov: Zachary Gow ’13, Andrey Egorov ‘16
The main struggle novice saw users encounter is being able to handle the tool with exact straightness while cutting. Cutter’s Buddy adds spirit level or bull’s-eye spirit level to a saw to help prevent angle in a saw’s cuts and make them as precisely straight as possible. This allows the user to avoid dangers while helping beginners improve their cutting skills and give extra confidence to experienced users.
The RipSense: Max Fayans ’13, Nicholas Hartman ‘15
The RipSense helps bring peace of mind to adults and children enjoying the ocean at less cost and greater efficiency than other products that aim to address the dangers of swimming in the ocean. It provides consumers with a safer swimming experience with fewer adverse outcomes to swimmers around the world.
iPrize
Streamback: Allyson Coff ’12, Alexander Galakatos ‘12
Streamback combines music downloads and charitable giving to introduce listeners to new music, create exposure for recording artists, and give sponsors the opportunity to donate to charitable causes.
Joan F & John M. Thalheimer ‘ 55 Student Entrepreneurship Competition Awards
First Place
Ogo Outdoor: Marshall Nill ‘15
Ogo Outdoor focuses on products for backyard, grassroots fun such as backyard ice rinks and pond hockey.
Second Place
Eleanor Kalle: Amy Mazius ’13, Randi Tutelman ‘12
Eleanor Kalle is a classic and cool accessories line. Founded by up-and-coming design duo Amy Mazius and Randi Tutelman, the brand juxtaposes soft vintage scarves with hardware store elements, offering versatility with a twist.
Third Place
Jaddler: Robert Sobieski ’12, Michael Kot ‘12
Jaddler is an innovative and unique spin on the idea of employment websites. It is a job board site that not only benefits applicants by creating a single application to send to multiple recruiters, but also benefits recruiters with an integrated applicant tracking system.
Honorable Mentions
EasyDefs.com: Joel Robinson ’14, Nick Roessler ’14, Sean Joy ‘14
EasyDefs.com provides students of all ages a means to quickly and easily create vocabulary lists for homework, quizzes, or tests. The goal is to create a website that students to go to for help in all areas of their schoolwork.
Zippy: Michael Bacci ‘12G
Zippy aims to become the dominant player in the exciting and newly emerging energy snacks industry. Its first product to market is the Zippy Bite – a delicious, energy-packed, chocolate treat that improves concentration and productivity levels.
Eureka! Series GRAND PRIZE
UVS Technologies: Douglas Kirk ‘14G
UVS Technologies is a provider of unmanned aerial systems to provide thermal imaging for precision agriculture to provide the grower with information to assist in crop growth and limit losses.
