"Innovation" in the Cozad New Venture Competition
04/26/2013
Urbana, Ill—April 16, 2013
Eight student startups competed for over $110,000 in funding and in-kind prizes, during the 13th annual Cozad Competition this weekend.
The Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC) hosted the Cozad semi-finals on Friday, where 20 teams gave timed presentations which were challenged by questions from an esteemed panel of judges. Twenty teams were cute down to eight for Saturday’s finals.
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“I made new friends, learned a ton every day, and came back inspired in a way I've never felt before,” Daniel Borup, Senior in Mechanical Engineering, remarked upon returning from the Technology Entrepreneur Center’s (TEC) Silicon Valley Workshop.
From botch-free punctures on the operating table to dramatically more energy-efficient lighting and well-watered kitchen gardens, the inventions of three $30,000-prize-winning students aim to make life better for people around the world.
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Danyelle Michelini
Technology Entrepreneur Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 333-1210
dmichel2@illinois.edu
THREE ILLINOIS STUDENTS WERE AWARDED FOR THEIR INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING
$30,000 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes Awarded to Inventive Students Nationwide;
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Danyelle Michelini
Technology Entrepreneur Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 333-1210
$30,000 LEMELSON-ILLINOIS STUDENT PRIZE FINALISTS CHOSEN
