Congratulations to the four student teams chosen as finalists for this year’s Y-Prize competition: Serpent, EmBrace, Agentis and Stentix!
The Y-Prize competition challenges students to build their entrepreneurial skills by creating business plans for technologies invented at Penn Engineering. The team with the best commercial application wins $10,000 to help make their idea a reality.
Our finalists will now proceed to the next phase of the competition, where they will pitch their business plan to a panel of judges at our Grand Finale event later this winter.
Learn more about our finalists and their business plans below.
Serpent
Team members: Jason Li (SEAS), Steyn Knollema (SEAS), Kevin Xuan (SEAS), Margaret Zhu (Wharton)
Serpent is a flexible, remote-controlled robot designed for tree trimming tasks. It has interchangeable tools (i.e. saw) and sensors to enhance safety.
EmBrace
Team members: Rohan Gala (Wharton), Pragat Patel (SEAS), Mariam Rizvi (SEAS), Sriya Teerdhala (Wharton)
EmBrace transforms lymphedema care for breast cancer survivors with a smart brace offering dynamic compression, real-time data, and unmatched comfort.
Agentis
Team members: Aditya Bhosale (College of Arts & Sciences), Diya Brijesh (Wharton), Anika Chebrolu (College of Arts & Sciences), Steven Jin (Wharton) Kathleen Yu (Wharton)
Agentise is a noninvasive pill that uses microrobots to deliver MORF-based stents with precision along the gastrointestinal tract to treat gastric outlet obstruction.
Stentix
Team members: Summer Cobb (SEAS), Amanda Kossoff (Wharton), Elizabeth Jia (Wharton), Aarsha Shah (Wharton)
Stentix is a magnetic, foldable, fully-covered stent that corrects migration noninvasively for patients with malignant biliary obstructions.