The Ansary Entrepreneurship Competition capped off Stevens' Innovation Expo. Six student finalist teams brought the heat, delivering elevator pitches to turn their Senior Design Projects into businesses. Vying for $17,500 in prizes sponsored by the Cy and Jan Ansary Foundation, the teams competed in an intense final round. Judges evaluated their live pitches, business plans, value props, viability and funding requests.
Emerging victorious with the $10,000 first prize was biomedical engineering's Knee-sy Does It team with their innovative, adjustable device that replicates oscillatory extension stretching and increases patient comfort. Second place went to the interdisciplinary TinnX team and their custom audio signal in the frequency range of the sufferer’s tinnitus in order to lower the amplitude of the perceived noise. Biomedical engineering's Pulse PairIT team - a small, comfortable, wireless device that allows for easy placement and rapid date capturing of necessary vital signs for NICU infants - rounded out the top three.
These budding entrepreneurs displayed remarkable ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit. Celebrating marketable innovation at its finest!