Spring 2025 winners
First Place - $1,500
Jam by Josh is a handmade jam business based in Cleveland, Ohio. We create small-batch, all-natural jams using only 4 ingredients and about 35% less sugar compared to mass market brands, with no additives or processing aids, just real ingredients and real flavor.
Second Place - $1,000
200 million individuals worldwide suffer from fine motor impairments that cause uncontrolled hand tremors. As a result, these individuals fail to precisely control the keyboard and mouse, making web navigation tasks a significant challenge. DexAssist is a research-backed software framework that allows individuals to intelligently navigate websites through voice commands, removing the reliance on hand dexterity. To read the technical research and see demo videos, visit dexassist.com.
Third Place - $500
Naturista, co-founded by two high school sophomores Aditya Herekar and Karan Verma, aims to revolutionize coffee with eco-friendly, dissolvable pods that blend right into daily life—delivering exceptional taste, health benefits, and true biodegradability. We empower individuals and institutions to cut plastic waste and transform every cup into a force for personal well-being and planetary health. One pod, one cup, one planet—changed for good.
Fall 2024 winners
First place - $1,500
ProtectShin's innovative use of Sorbothane and Crumple zone technology allows for a high-quality sports guard that absorbs over 72% of the shock energy from sports injuries. Offering almost double the protection of common guards, ProtectShin's model currently provides for and is not limited to the following sports: Taekwondo, Karate, Rugby, and Football.
Second Place - $1,000
StuFlo is a time-management app tailored specifically for students, offering features to not only help them strike a balance in their academic and personal lives, but also to optimize their study habits. A tool by students, for students.
Third Place - $500
Pathlight is an innovative AI-powered navigation headset designed for blind and visually impaired individuals, addressing challenges of social isolation and limited mobility. By leveraging the residual photosensitivity retained by 85% of blind individuals and advanced AI mapping, Pathlight enables confident and intuitive navigation.
Spring 2024 winners
First place - $1,500
SignAll is an app that uses neural network technology to translate American Sign Language to English text in real-time from video input. We are breaking down communication barriers historically faced by over 72 million sign language speakers worldwide. To join our app waitlist please visit www.signall.live.
Second Place - $1,000
Shlurp is the first instant ramen that is vegan, gluten-free, kosher, and has 10+ grams of protein. Today, we aim to turn nostalgia into nourishment by creating organic, vegan, gluten-free, and allergen friendly versions of everyone’s favorite snacks, so they are better for our bodies and the planet.
Third Place - $500
We are WarBands, the future of sportswear, we make anti microbial headbands designed to reduce all kinds of bacteria that cause acne, odor, and swelling while you work out or play sports through the use of silver in our fabrics.
Fall 2023 winners
First place - $1,500
No Splash LLC sells a 100% recyclable, patent pending toilet accessory that completely stops toilet splash backs. No Splash LLC has gained success in sales with over 200 units sold to date door-to-door and via Amazon!
Second place - $1,000
Rising Chef is a quarterly culinary education box delivered to your home full of fun and engaging recipes and tools for a parent to complete with their child. It teaches basic cooking skills, through online videos tutorials and interactive instructional recipes helping involve the entire family into the cooking process.
Third place - $500
State Street Spices is a spice company with the mission of incorporating flavor and taste to bring the world together by making spice blends from U.S. cities like Nashville Hot, New York Steak, and Saint Louis Barbecue. They conduct their research using a formula to find the best recipes for each spice combining them into one perfect spice. They also believe businesses exist to help people and their communities so they donate 10% of our profits to children's hospitals.
Spring 2023 winners
First place - $1,500
Clore is a revolutionary fire retardant that will allow firefighters to quickly and efficiently suppress fires. Instead of using traditional fire retardant methods, Clore combines both traditional fire retardant methods with new technology. It may be sprayed and applied to natural substances months in advance, and provides flame resistance in case of a fire; our product is one of the many tools that can be used to mitigate a wildfires' damage.
Second place - $1,000
Extentek is a company dedicated to improving the personal independence and quality of life of those with different abilities. Extentek offers a contactless material level indication device that helps blind and visually impaired people to pour any substance into any container without over-pouring, inspired by the CEO's visually impaired grandmother.
Third place - $500
StutterOn is a revolutionary speech therapy tool that allows those who stutter to practice and improve their speech. StutterOn offers numerous speech-pathologist-approved activities that range from breathing exercises, to AI-analyzed activities, and video calls. It operates as a non-profit, meaning it is free to use. The mission of StutterOn is for everyone to speak with confidence.
Fall 2022 winners
First place - $1,500
BraceLit is a business idea, as well as an entrepreneurial opportunity in order to maintain safety as people decide to go out and let loose. Drinking comes with many risks, and BraceLit is a way to eliminate a common fear factor; a foreign substance being snuck into a drink. Ensure the safety of not only yourself, but those around you with BraceLit.
Second place - $1,000
Gingerisitic's oil-based balms and oil blends use the topical power of ginger oil to offer a unique solution to motion sickness. Their products are effective all-natural, non-medicated solutions to motion sickness that are kid-friendly, easy to use, and great for everyone, even if you hate the taste of ginger!
Third place - $500
GreenSwing is an impact-driven social enterprise that strives to make renewable energy more accessible to underserved communities in energy poverty and reduce public dependency on fossil fuels and environmentally harmful technologies. Their flagship product recharges batteries in an affordable, effective, and environmentally friendly manner by harnessing the kinetic energy of swinging and sliding doors and apparatuses. This device can power a wide range of appliances, from lamps to hospital equipment.
Spring 2022 winners
First place - $1,500
Creative Book Folding is a business that creates unique, customizable gifts and decorations out of thrifted and recycled books. Creative Book Folding repurposes old books from landfills and transforms them into household keepsakes.
Second place - $1,000
Tobelli is a biodegradable food packaging innovation that repurposes the cellulose found in tobacco to create a thin food packaging film that not only aids in the storage of food but also its preservation.
Third place - $500
MetaCar merges the rising market of the VR metaverse with car dealerships. Using real 3D lidar scans of vehicles for sale, users can view any car from anywhere, as if they were at the dealership.
Fall 2021 winners
First place - $1,500
Omega Speech and Debate (OSD) is an LLC that offers online public speaking and debate classes, summer camps, workshops, and private coaching services to students in grades 6-12.
Second place - $1,000
MINIMA is a beautifully crafted and advanced miniature pottery wheel that is also portable and easy to assemble. It comes with innovative features like centering and opening arms to help beginners learn pottery quickly.
Third place - $500
iCane, is a smart cane for those challenged with mobility. iCane is designed to instill confidence and ensure the safety of its user, empowering them to lead an active lifestyle.