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Tag: Big Idea Center

Pitt Innovators Continue Translating Discoveries in Wake of Pandemic

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Mike Yeomans

July 28, 2020 Pitt innovators and the University’s regional entrepreneurial company partners had been setting another strong pace for growth when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in the later part of Fiscal 2020. Although many of their companies, research programs and in-person activities were stopped in their tracks, they quickly adapted to not only adjust to […]

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Pitt Students Forge Ahead to Complete Randall Family Big Idea Competition

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Mike Yeomans

  Pitt Students Forge Ahead to Complete Randall Family Big Idea Competition Medical School team wins $25,000 top prize with platform for recycling biomedical waste April, 23, 2020 As Pitt School of Medicine and research students, James O’Brien (Physician Scientist Training Program), Noah Pyles (Physician Scientist Training Program) and Jonathan Cohen (Medical Scientist Training Program, […]

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HiberSense Wins $10K in AUTM Venture Challenge

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Karen Woolstrum

Media Release HiberSense Wins $10K in AUTM Venture Challenge AUSTIN, Texas – February 14, 2019 — HiberSense, Inc., a start-up from the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute, has won the $10,000 top prize in AUTM’s Pitch and Play business plan competition at the Association’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. New company creation and development […]

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First IBM Bluehack at a University Reveals Pitt Students’ Passion for Problem Solving

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

  October 19, 2018 Over 100 students from across the University, and a few from neighboring Carnegie Mellon, took control of the Pitt School of Computing and Information building on Bellefield Avenue last weekend hacking their ideas for improving healthcare, the Internet of Things (IoT), and any other idea they could think of to transform […]

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Blast Furnace Accelerator Strengthens Pitt Student Ideas on Path to Startups

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

  July 6, 2018 Rising junior engineering students Sneha Jeevan and Shivani Tuli came to Pitt with entrepreneurship on their minds. Following their participation in the Randall Family Big Idea Competition last February and March, they were eager to continue to develop their idea for a medication dispensing bottle and app that would make it […]

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Pitt Student Entrepreneurs Take National Stage at Pitch Competitions

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

  April 11, 2108   Four Growers Wins Runner-up Prize, $10,000 at ACC InVenture Prize Competition Fresh off claiming top prize in the Randall Family Big Idea Competition, the student team Four Growers captured second place prize of $10,000 at the annual ACC InVenture Prize competition on April 5 & 6. Meanwhile, both Four Growers […]

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Big Idea Competition Marks 10th Anniversary of Launching Pitt Student Entrepreneurs

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

  March 30, 2018 Big Idea Winners Announced and News on the Brand New Big Idea Center for Student Entrepreneurship With a blast of confetti falling from above the stage at the Charity Randall Theater, the participants in the 2018 Randall Family Big Idea Competition celebrated the culmination of two months of extra-curricular work on […]

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Big Ideas Take Shape at Startup Blitz

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

      By Mike Yeomans January 2018 Nearly 50 students with a pent up passion for entrepreneurship came to the Innovation Institute’s spring semester Startup Blitz armed with ideas that ran the gamut from improved battery chargers for electric cars to a robotic system for harvesting produce in a greenhouse to a social media […]

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Blast Furnace Students Solve Problems Close to Their Hearts

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Mike Yeomans

The problems a few dozen Pitt students wrestled with this semester weren’t in a homework assignment or an exam. They were often intensely personal problems, the solutions to which they had formed into the kernel of an idea for a new product or service. To nurture those ideas they entered the 6th cohort of the […]

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Pitt Startup Translates to Success

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Karen Woolstrum

Story originally published: July 8, 2016, by Karen Woolstrum November 2017 Update: Nicole Xu and John Frazier receive the Pitt Innovator Student Award.   Nicole Xu, John Frazier, and Lujing Gao now start their mornings collaborating in their new space at AlphaLab, a nationally ranked Pittsburgh accelerator program aimed at launching startup tech companies in […]

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