NCMS Judges Environmental Innovation Challenge
NCMS Senior Program Managers Michael Fancher and Doyle Maleche joined a team of prestigious judges participating in the University of Washington Environmental Innovation Challenge. University of Washington students are creating next-generation clean technology solutions for everyday living. Seventeen student teams from around the state pitched and demonstrated their innovations at the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge Thursday, addressing today’s energy problems with novel solutions. Now in its third year, the Challenge focuses on the development of prototypes that solve environmental problems AND have market impact.
The event, produced by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in collaboration with Foster School of Business, College of Engineering, College of the Environment, and the UW Center for Commercialization, welcomed student teams representing the University of Washington, Seattle Pacific University, Washington State University, Western Washington University, University of British Columbia, University of Utah, Shoreline Community College, and Lake Washington Technical College. Their ideas ranged from designing and building airships and complex carbon fiber components for vehicles, to low-cost solutions for water purification and power generation in underdeveloped regions, methods for significantly increasing efficiency and market growth of alternative energy technologies, and a wind power generator that creates electricity through the movement of a pair of wings. The students came from business, engineering, environment, forest resources, built environment, public policy, and arts and sciences, and they all share a commitment to developing the innovations needed to accelerate the clean-tech economy.
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