GRAND PRIZE
RepelWrap – a Nature-inspired Surface Technology for Repelling Contamination
Leyla Soleymani and Tohid Didar, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
AEROSPACE & DEFENSE CATEGORY
Niobium Connector (NiobiCon™)
Harvey Hack, James Windgassen, Keith Johanns, Megan Owens, Carrie Wheeler, Vincent Iorio, Tim Patterson, and David Knuteson, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Annapolis, MD, USA
Honorable Mention – Aerospace & Defense Category
Full Multimedia Autonomous System
Scott Kempshall, HyALTA Aeronautics, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA
DeepDroneID: Remote Drone Identification and Payload Monitoring System
Mohamed Ismail, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Braunschweig, Germany
Silver Lock Fastener
Harold Hess, Igor Komsitsky, Deeptesh Selvaraj, and Zoltan Szekely, Enduralock, LLC, Lenexa, KS, USA
Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Quadrotors with Event Cameras
Davide Falanga, Kevin Kleber, and Davide Scaramuzza, University of Zurich, Switzerland
AUTOMOTIVE/TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY
Low Noise Laser for LiDAR
John Jost, Nikolay Pavlov, Grigorii Likhachev, Tobias Kippenberg, and Pierre-Yves Cattin, MicroRsystems SA, Lausanne, Switzerland
Honorable Mention – Automotive/Transportation Category
Dual Radial Gap Electric Motor Vehicle Conversion Kit
Bryan Prucher, Lektromotiv Inc., Clarkston, MI, USA
Second generation RADIALcvt (Continuously Variable Transmission)
Jan Naude, Johannesburg, South Africa
The Future of the Four Stroke Internal Combustion Engine
Jeff England, Gary Cotton, and Robert McLean, Grace Capital Partners, LLC, Little Rock, AR, USA
CITS Combustion Engine Technology
Basil Van Rooyen, CITS Engineering PL, St. Ives, New South Wales, Australia
CONSUMER PRODUCTS CATEGORY
Ring – Prosthetic Leg Grows Along with Children
Snezana Jeremic, Komiric , Serbia
Honorable Mention – Consumer Products Category
Pronto Bottle
Shannon Gilleland, Form-i-Baby Pty Ltd, Pheasant Creek, Australia
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SelectFlex® the World’s Only Dynamic Arch Control Insole
Peter Tarlton, Barry Renow, and Joe Huston, ADDG, New Castle, NH, USA
Virtual Smart White Cane for Obstacle Detection
Pnina Ari-Gur and Justin Rittenhouse, Western Michigan University; Julia Strauss and Anna Puca, Kalamazoo Area Mathematics & Science Center, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Airtomo Air Purification System
Kevin Chiam, Imperial College London, Singapore
ELECTRONICS/SENSORS/IOT CATEGORY
PrintIC - Flexible and Recyclable Integrated Circuits and Systems
Giorgio Dell'Erba, Andrea Perinot, and Paolo Colpani, FLEEP Technologies S.r.l., Milan, Italy
Honorable Mention – Electronics/Sensors/IoT Category
Securing IoT
Page Heller, Endpoint Security Inc., College Station, TX, USA
First Responder Sensor Array System
Phillip Tinsley, Brad Jefferson, and Mat Beyus, Venti LLC, New Bern, NC, USA
Battery Health Sentry
Dong Ding, Sergiy Sazhin, Eric Dufek, and Kevin Gering, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA
ULTRARAM™: Compound Semiconductor Universal Memory
Manus Hayne, Peter Hodgson, Dom Lane and Ofogh Tizno, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Great Britain
MANUFACTURING/ROBOTICS/AUTOMATION CATEGORY
Radibond – Superior Assembly of Lightweight Materials for Transportation
Espen Hvidsten Dahl and Mikkel Kongsfelt, RadiSurf ApS, Aarhus, Denmark
Honorable Mention – Manufacturing/Robotics/Automation Category
The Future for Helmets is Now - Introducing Fluid Displacement Technology
Jason Kirshon and Donald DeVito II, KIRSH Helmets Inc., Schenectady, NY, USA
An Automated Process for Apparel Manufacturing
Brett Stern, Formafit, Portland, OR, USA
3D Printing of High-Performance Ti Alloys
Duyao Zhang, Dong Qiu, and Mark Easton, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Three-Dimensional Printing of Multicomponent Glasses
Lorenzo Barbera, David G. Moore, Kunal Masania, and Andre R. Studart, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland
MEDICAL CATEGORY
A Chip Off the Old Box: Painless Defibrillation
Mehdi Razavi, Mathews John, Allison Post, and Aydin Babakhani, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA
Honorable Mention – Medical Category
Wearable Continuous Blood Pressure Monitors
Xina Quan, PyrAmes, Cupertino, CA, USA
Earlier Lung Cancer Screening Using the Exoutcancer System
Sumita T. Jonak, Brian D'Souza, and Abhinav Chandra, UCLA Anderson, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Customizable Tissue Engineering Patches for Accelerated Wound Healing
Samarender Nagam Hanumantharao, Carolynn Que, and Smitha Rao, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI, USA
Glucowaves for Convenient Pain-free Blood Glucose Level Monitoring
Ala Eldin Omer, George Shaker, and Safieddin Safavi-Naeini, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES/FUTURE ENERGY CATEGORY
Flash Graphene
Duy X. Luong, Ksenia V. Bets, Wala Ali Algozeeb, Michael G. Stanford, Carter Kittrell, Weiyin Chen, Rodrigo V. Salvatierra, Muqing Ren, Emily A. McHugh, Paul A. Advincula, Zhe Wang, Mahesh Bhatt, Hua Guo, Vladimir Mancevski, Rouzbeh Shahsavari, Boris I. Yakobson, and James M. Tour, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Honorable Mention – Sustainable Technologies/Future Energy Category
Thermionic Wave Generator (TWG)
John Read, Devin Vollmer, and Todd Mitchell, Space Charge LLC, San Diego, CA, USA
TriboFuge – Water from Air Harvester
Philip Hardcastle, AquaFuge, New South Wales, Australia
Reducing Climate Change with Waste to Energy
PD Madden, Eco Energy International LLC, Tustin, CA, USA
Transformational Li-ion Batteries with ≥10x Longer Life/Safer than Current LIBs
Orlando Auciello, Elida I de Obaldia, and Jean F. Veyan, Original Biomedical Implants, Dallas, TX, USA
TOP TEN MOST POPULAR ENTRIES
The Portable Tree - Atmosphere Transformation Project
Jonar Cubillan, Patrick Morton, Richard Márquez, Mercylino Quinto, Humberto Linares, and Yanmiver Jiménez, 3JC Technologies, San Sebastian, Venezuela
ISOPOD
Nebin Asharaf, Nitya Jois, and Sachin Bhat, 10BY10, Bangalore, India
Simultaneous Positive Pressure Ventil-Aid System
Cristobal Galjuf, Giusseppe Bianco, Richard Zicarelli, Dimitris Pavlidis, John Volakis, and Andres Tremante, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Seas – Seamless Employee Attendance & Safety
Nebin Asharaf, Nitya Jois, and Sachin Bhat, 10BY10, Bangalore, India
ZERO X – Zero Exposure Mobile Swab Collection Kiosk for Pandemic
Nebin Asharaf, Nitya Jois, and Sachin Bhat, 10BY10, Bangalore, India
Collision Alert Technology for Scooters (CATS)
Adult leads: Dan Champoux and Autumn Mahoney; Youth: Honor Hutchison, Elias Cengeri, Julia Mahoney, Keira Mahoney, Evan Welch, Mihir Shah, Lucas Chin, Kate Kanoya, Avani Nandalur, Reyna Nandalur , and Julia Xiao (Hao), FIRST LEGO League Robotics Team #3646: Great Engineering Kids Of Tomorrow (G.E.K.O.T), East Hills Middle School, Bloomfield Twp., MI, USA
Idea for Future Aircraft Power Plant for Fuel Saving
R. Dandekar, Pune, India
Soleria Safety Cylinder
Sheila Ray, SBRAnesthesia Associates, Harrisburg, MO, USA
SPOTS: Stay Safe
Akshay Andhare and Tushar Shinde, Mindpod Technologies Pvt Ltd, Pune, India
Solving the Disposable Plastics Problem
Thomas Brady, PTI, Holland, OH, USA