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...2-page application
...3-minute presentation
...$25,000 in prizes
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April 9 (Earth2Tech)
... High atop Barrows Hall on UC Berkeley’s campus, the 16 semi-finalists in the Venture Lab Clean Technology Innovation Contest this week made their final pitches. Each of the competitors had a brutally enforced 3-minute window for the “American Idol”-style session...(full story)
April 23 (Today at Berkeley Lab)
Team members Craig Jacobson, Tal Sholklapper, Mike Tucker, and Grace Lau developed a small, rugged, low-cost fuel cell and are hoping to commercialize this technology to provide LED lighting in developing countries...(full story)
April 25 (Engineering News)
Judges awarded second place and a $5,000 prize to researchers who are developing sensors that prefer to float down the river, no life jacket needed. CEE Ph.D. student Andrew Tinka, in conjunction with CEE assistant professor Alexandre Bayen, leads a team working on a fleet of “drifters,” GPS-enabled mobile sensors that float through river systems to collect data on pollution, salinity levels and temperature.” (full story)
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