Although the Diamond Challenge Summit took place nearly three months ago, we love reliving the special moments. We are pleased to share the Diamond Challenge 2019 finalist pitches with you so you can experience the Summit energy for yourself, and watch our Diamonds shine.
BUSINESS INNOVATION COMPETITION
1st Place
Winners
Mia Yang and Philip Pan (Virginia)
Idea
BACvision
BACvision is a modular apparatus that will accurately quantify blood alcohol content (BAC) and the presence of other intoxicants through ocular metrics.
2nd Place
Winners
Arunima Saxena and Sidharth Anantha (Massachusetts)
Idea
Optiglass
Optiglass is a novel device that uses echolocation and machine learning to give the blind access to greater mobility.
3rd Place
Winners
Alexander Kosyakov, Austin Cohen, Cynthia Chen, and Thomas Rouffiac (Connecticut)
Idea
Natrion
Natrion is dedicated to providing safe, affordable energy storage solutions for clean power grids through its revolutionary solid-state sodium-ion battery technology.
SOCIAL INNOVATION COMPETITION
1st Place
Winners
Jun Lee and Prafull Sharma (Maryland and New Jersey)
Idea
MatchMeds
MatchMeds is a streamlined, technology-based platform that connects low-income, uninsured patients with charitable clinics that can offer real affordable prices for brand-name medication.
2nd Place
Winners
Eden Gorevoy, Marisa Patel-O’Connor and Sol Hwangbo (Illinois)
Idea
The Oil Magnet
The Oil Magnet is a method of oil spill clean up that combines current boom technology with magnetic nanotechnology.
3rd Place
Winners
Larissa Tyagi, Ritik Patnaik, Sam Park and Savanna Slaughter (California, New Hampshire and Texas)
Idea
SOBROS
The SOBROS safe strip is a dissolvable thin film that can be slipped into a drink and turn it a fluorescent color in the presence of drugs like Rophanyl and Ketamine or simply dissolve and leave the drink unaltered in the presence of no drugs.
Fourth Place
Winners
Alexei Murinets and Daria Bounegru (Moldova)
Idea
Gen2Gen
A platform to give pensioners the opportunity to share love, compassion and life experience with orphans through personal communication.
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