The Collegiate Inventors Competition (CIC) was founded in 1990 to encourage and drive innovation and entrepreneurship at the collegiate level. The competition brings together the nation’s brightest college minds to showcase, recognize, and award their cutting-edge research and discovery. CIC is a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, working in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to challenge and inspire college students to innovate.

The program bridges the gap between students’ experiences with collegiate innovation and how their work will make a real-world impact. Connecting Finalists to respected organizations is key to showing students not only the potential value of their ideas to society, but also to encouraging them to consider STEM careers, which helps advance technology for the benefit of all people.

We’re pleased to announce the 2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition Finalists!

Undergradute Finalists:

AssistENT
Clayton Andrews, Talia Kirschbaum,
Pooja Nair, Harrison Nguyen

CerebroSense
Andrew Falcone, David Ferrara,
Maria V. De Abreu Pineda

InMEDBio
Paco Abiad, Ashwinraj Karthikeyan

Oculogx
Sarthak Srinivas, Charu Thomas

Stretchable Photovoltaics 
Gabriel Anfinrud, Sabrina Michelle Curtis, Alexander Randolph, Haotian Wang

SwineTech
*Arrow Innovation Prize Winner!
Abraham Espinoza, Matthew Rooda

 Graduate Finalists:

dAST
Travis S. Schlappi, Nathan G. Schoepp

Elastic Biocompatible Inks
Sangchul Roh

Engineered Probiotics 
Ning Mao

NextGen Structural Rehab System
Praveen Kumar Reddy Majjigapu

Passive Anti-Frosting Surfaces
S. Farzad Ahmadi, Grady Liliff, 
Saurabh Nath

 TX2O
Conor Brantley, Archana Gujjari, Thi Nguyen, Michael Opoku

Winners will be announced on November 3rd.

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