Click on the picture above or the link below to find out more about the 2016 InVenture Prize competition! Relive all the exciting moments by watching the recorded broadcast. Click on each team name to learn more about the competitors and their inventions.

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Competing Teams

FireHUD

FireHUD
1st Place
Zachary Braun
Computer Engineering
Newnan, GA
Tyler Sisk
Electrical Engineering
Newnan, GA
FireHUD is a real time monitoring system and Head Up Display (HUD) that displays biometric and environmental data to firefighters and outside officials

"Firefighters are everyday heroes that deserve the best protective gear. Winning the InVenture Prize would give us the capability and credibility to get our product into the hands of firefighters and protect our protectors."

FretWizard

FretWizard
Ali Abid
Computer Science
Atlanta, GA
Molly Ricks
International Affairs
Macon, GA
FretWizard is an artificial intelligence system that learns how to play guitar songs and teaches users what it's learned.

"We would be able to better market our product so guitar users can find and use our product. We'd be able to partner with music companies and artists who could help market FretWizard."

TruePani

TruePani
People's Choice
Naomi Ergun
Business Administration
Cumming, GA
Samantha Becker
Civil Engineering
Atlanta, GA
Sarah Lynn Bowen
Business Administration
Sandy Springs, GA
Shannon Evanchec
Environmental Engineering
Saxonburg, PA
TruePani is a household sanitation solution, consisting of a passive antimicrobial cup and storage water device, that kills harmful microbes in drinking water at the point-of-use level.

"88% of children who die from diarrheal diseases could have lived if they had improved sanitation within their home. Winning the InVenture Prize would allow us to expose the problem of cup contamination and directly impact people in underserved communities."

RoboGoalie

RoboGoalie
Zhifeng Su
Mechanical Engineering
Guangzhou, China
Siu Lun Chan
Mechanical Engineering
Hong Kong
Timothy Woo
Mechanical Engineering
Kansas City, MO
Ming Him Ko
Mechanical Engineering
Hong Kong
RoboGoalie is an automatic soccer retrieval device that collects the ball and launches it back to the user and doubles the efficiency of soccer practice.

"Winning InVenture would make it possible to get our product on the market and in use by a wide variety of individuals and teams who are depending on our product to make a difference in their practice routines, and to see our invention realized on the field."

Wobble

Wobble
2nd Place
Matthew Devlin
Biomedical Engineering
San Diego, CA
Ana Gomez del Campo
Biomedical Engineering
Weston, FL
Garrett Wallace
Biomedical Engineering
Sutter, CA
Hailey Brown
Mechanical Engineering
Atlanta, GA
Wobble is a dynamic balance testing device to improve concussion recovery assessments for athletes.

"Winning the InVenture Prize will bring us one step closer to our ultimate goal: providing a sensitive, objective evaluation of concussion recovery to keep athletes safe from future injury and the risk of permanent brain damage."

TEQ Charging

TEQ Charging
James Dorrier Coleman
Computer Engineering
Atlanta, GA
Mitchell Kelman
Computer Science
Boca Raton, FL
Joshua Lieberman
Mechanical Engineering
Boca Raton, FL
Isaac Wittenstein
Mechanical Engineering
Marietta, GA

TEQ Charging has developed a power management system for electric vehicle chargers to reduce the cost of installation, increases the efficiency of charging, and therefore, provides greater accessibility to charging.

"Winning the InVenture Prize would assist us in our goal of making electric vehicles more practical by providing greater accessibility to charging using the TEQ system."

Judges

Hosts

Bahareh Azizi

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Faith Salie

Faith Salie is an Emmy-winning contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and a regular on NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!  She’s also host of the new podcast “Real Good.” She’ll debut Off-Broadway later this year in her solo show, Approval Junkie, based on her memoir of the same name. She's a storyteller for The Moth with her story viewed over 2 million times and included in the New York Times bestseller Occasional Magic.  Faith’s hosted five seasons of the PBS show Science Goes to the Movies, but perhaps her biggest science cred was her role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which got her beamed up and landed her on a trading card worth hundreds of cents. Faith grew up in Atlanta and is a Rhodes scholar who graduated from Harvard, aka the GA Tech of the North. She lives in New York City, where she continues to say “y’all" and often bakes Coca-Cola cake.