Ideas Challenge prize giving
The Ideas Challenge prize giving event took place on Thursday 9th December where ten runners-up and ten winner’s prizes were awarded to the most innovative entries.
"One day you'll need more than a degree…"
The Ideas Challenge is the first stage of the Entrepreneurs' Challenge, Imperial College's student business plan competition, where students were asked to submit a two to three page summary of a business idea. This year we had an exceptional 161 entries from 374 of Imperial's brightest and most entrepreneurial students, both undergraduate and post graduate, from a variety of disciplines. Simon Barnes , Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre, hosted the evening and David Begg , Principal of Tanaka Business School awarded the ten runners-up prizes of £250 with ten winners receiving £1,000.
Below you will find a list of this year's prize-winners plus a public summary of their idea:
| Entrants | Idea |
|---|---|
| Kathie Wong, Ee Ling Heng (Medicine) | Home Testing Kit for STDs |
| Ryan Kerstein, Christian Fellowes (Medicine) | Disposable Tourniquets |
| Robert Stanley, Richard Matthews, Alex Stewart, Suzie Imber, Jeremy Brackpool, Artur Tsobanjan (Physics) | Energy saving one touch activation for household appliances |
| Katie Goodwin, Adam Sutcliffe, Robin Chilton (IDE) | System to combat spread of hospital acquired infections |
| Peter Brewin, William Crawford (IDE) | Concrete canvas |
| John Latham, Thomas Ehrman (Mech. Eng) | Appliance for commercial kitchens for soft boiling eggs |
| Pauline Brocard, Leon Brocard (PhD) | Ski Wheels |
| Ningyu Ran (Elec. Eng.) | Audio and video interactive online broadcasting |
| Kok Hin Henry Goh (Mech. Eng) | Weighing machine for travellers |
| Etienne Von Lavante, Emily Michie, Jonathan Woo, Sam Law, Gavy Lau, Kenny Cheung (ISE, Materials, ME, Comp. Sci) | FUSE - Fast Ultrasonic Software Environment |
| Entrants | Ideas |
|---|---|
| Arsalan Zamir, Hassan Zamir (Medicine, ISE) | GPS - General Practice Solutions: vacation work for medical students |
| Hanna Sykulska (PhD) | Invention that measures distance in open water |
| Yu-Shik Hwang, Wesley Randle, Kathryn Hall (PhD) | CartReg - self regeneration of joint damage |
| Laurence Billingham, Neil Marsh, Yue Ying Tew, Andrew Powers, Jakob Metzger,Thomas Hodgson (Physics) | Device to detect impurities in aviation fuels |
| Tiankanok Sirichayaporn, Ijeoma Achareke, Ololade Osikoya, Ademola Adeku, David Cinque (MSc Chem. Eng) | Regeneration of used catalytic converters |
| Salman Alim Marvasti, Michael Rans (PhD Computing) | Home health portable ultrasound monitoring tool |
| Stephen Yeung (Physics) | Tagging solution for wandering dementia sufferers |
| John Schetrumpf (MSc Surgical Tech) | Stretching and exercising machine |
| Willis Lim, Lu Li (ABM) | Chain of cookie stores |
| Joanne Chung, Meena Kanagasabapathy (Medicine) | Houseman Bag - bag for the modern day medic |
Each of the ten winning teams bravely delivered their one minute elevator pitch to try to convince the audience of their idea - an extremely nerve-racking task but everyone did a fantastic job!
The next event in the Entrepreneurs' Challenge calendar is the launch of the New Business Challenge on Monday 10th January, in Mechanical Engineering room 220. The New Business Challenge is the second stage of the competition and offers students the opportunity to present a full business plan and the opportunity to win the first prize of £25,000 in cash and services. There will be two runners up prizes totalling £5,000 each in cash and services and also a finalist cash prize of £1,000.
Last year's winners, Jargon, will be presenting their business idea and sharing their experience of entering the Challenge, and ex-Imperial student and "Technology Entrepreneur of the Year 2004", Charlie Muirhead will provide the inspiration.
If you would like to learn more about the Challenge please visit our website: www.imperial.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/entrepreneurschallenge or email the Challenge team: challenge@imperial.ac.uk
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