Strage Innovation Awards
"Winning in business today demands innovation. Innovators build a reputation of being able to solve the most challenging problems. That's why corporations spend billions each year trying to identify opportunities for innovation – unsolved problems or unmet needs, things that don't fit or don't work."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Harvard Business Review
May-June 1999
A WPI Innovation Competition
Innovation is the successful exploitation of new ideas in our society that may either be entirely new or the application of existing ideas to new uses.
In view of the increasing importance of innovation in our lives, an innovation competition for WPI undergraduate students has been established.
Objective
The objective of this competition is to encourage the development of student knowledge and practical experience in the translation of creative ideas into viable new projects or ventures, especially for those students who are interested in pursuing an entrepreneurial opportunity now or in the future. Commercial, social, and philanthropic ventures will be considered by a panel of distinguished judges.
The 2009 Winners
- First Place: Isaiah Janzen - Fitzroy Mountaineering
- Second Place: Jeff Trost, Renee Walker, and Sebastian Musielak: Green Keys
- Third Place: Michael Tidd - Social Bridge
- Honorable Mention: Matthew Doherty - DigiReceipts
The 2008 Winners
- First Place: Andrew Marchese - Swarm Bots for Solar Energy Collection
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Second Place tie:
- Bradford Lynch - new super efficient internal combustion engine design
- David Radu and Akhil Kejriwal - snowboard enhancement technology
- Honorable Mention: Philip Hanson - module presentation software
The 2006 Winners
- First Place: Artur Janc, 73clicks - Successfully launched as Lingro.com
- Second Place: Zeb Tracy and Ryan Freund, Soyil, Inc.
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Third Place tie:
- Eric Hall, Marc Cyr, Sam , and Dav Belliveau, eMusic Manager
- Claudio Salazar and Jieyu Wu, Green Machine Dynamo Energy Producing Devices
Henry and Alberta Strage pose with 2006 winner Artur Janc
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