Three finalist teams in this year's Inventure Prize include mechanical engineering students.
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Shortweb | FlameTech Grill Defender | QuantaBrew | ||
Miguel Oller - Mechanical Engineering, San Juan, Puerto Rico Ricardo De Andrade - Industrial Engineering & Computer Science, Caracas, Venezuela | Alex Roe - Computer Science, Cumming, GA Scott Schroer - Mechanical Engineering, Dunwoody, GA Will Sweet - Business Administration, Newnan, GA | Jack Breen - Mechanical Engineering, Encino, CA | ||
Shortweb is a social productivity platform that delivers the most important information online through in-page, crowdsourced, highlights. | The Grill Defender is a life safety device for gas grills that alerts users when gas levels have reached an unsafe threshold. | The QuantaBrew is an airtight container that dispenses a set amount of coffee grounds each pour, simplifying the process of making coffee every morning. | ||
"We currently have paying job offers and other commitments for next summer that we wish to forgo so that we can work on Shortweb full-time, but we don't have the resources to do so. Winning the InVenture Prize would give us the support we need to make this wish become a reality and get it to the hands of people everywhere around the world." | "Safety is our greatest concern, and winning the InVenture Prize would give us the capital and credibility to get our safety technology into the hands of grillers and grill manufacturers as soon as possible." | "Winning the InVenture Prize will help me turn my idea into a successful business. After obtaining a patent for my invention, I plan on using the prize money to create a professional looking and inexpensive product that could be sold to coffee drinkers looking to save time in their morning routine." |
Learn more about the other Inventure Prize finalists. Good luck to them all.