The Y-Prize Competition kicked off this week with a well-attended event held in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall. Now in its thirteenth year, the Y-Prize challenges students to hone their entrepreneurial skills by creating business plans using cutting-edge technology developed at Penn Engineering. The team that comes up with the most promising commercial…Read More
Congratulations to LilyLoop, winners of this year’s $10,000 Y-Prize! The team of first-year undergrads proposed a commercial application for Penn’s biodegradeable moisture sensors: a line of “smart” period products that alerts users when to change tampons and captures menstrual flow data for diagnostic purposes. One in five American women suffers…Read More
The semester is underway — and so is this year’s Y-Prize competition! For twelve years, the Y-Prize competition has challenged students to build their entrepreneurial skills. Students team up to create business plans using technology invented at Penn Engineering. The team with the best commercial application wins $10,000 to help…Read More
Congratulations to Equimeter, winners of this year’s $10,000 Y-Prize! The team of undergrads proposed a commercial application for Penn’s physics-informed neural network that improves pulse oximetry in patients with darker skin. A pulse oximeter is a small device that clips to your finger and measures blood oxygen level. They became…Read More
Congratulations to the four student teams chosen as finalists for this year’s Y-Prize competition: AtrioFlow, Bubble, Equimeter, and VoluVision! 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…Read More
Congratulations to Ossum Technologies, winners of this year’s $10,000 Y-Prize competition! The team of undergrads proposed a commercial application for Penn’s steerable needle technology that would improve the safety of cerclage wire use in orthopedic fracture fixation.…Read More
LiberTech proposes that brewers use a Penn technology to cost-effectively filter out ethanol and still preserve quality and taste.…Read More
The company, cofounded by Wharton alumni, will use the National Science Foundation award to continue pursuing its innovative glaucoma treatment.…Read More
Four student teams wowed the judges at the 2020 Y-Prize Competition and took home prize money to invest in their ideas about how to repair and harvest energy from metal.…Read More
The four finalist teams will pitch their ideas live to a panel of judges for the $10,000 grand prize in the Y-Prize Grand Finale on February 3, 2020…Read More
The winners of Penn’s 5th annual Y-Prize Competition, Avisi Technologies, have secured a $225,000 National Science Foundation grant to continue developing their eye implant VisiPlate.…Read More
The 2019 Y-Prize winners introduced a plan create a new, improved catheter designed to stop costly and deadly infections at the source.…Read More
The finalists in Penn’s seventh annual Y-Prize Competition have collectively proposed one of the most diverse slates of applications in recent memory, spanning infection prevention, saltwater desalination, green energy, and tissue engineering.…Read More
The team will receive $250K to help them bring their revolutionary glaucoma treatment to market.…Read More
Michael Lee and Henry Zhou of Cellview Sciences share how they balanced their team’s expertise in business and science to win Penn’s 2018 Y-Prize Competition.…Read More
This year’s Y-Prize finalists pitch their ideas live on January 30.…Read More
Since 2012, the Mack Institute has helped host the Y-Prize Competition, a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best commercial applications for an emerging technology.…Read More
Penn’s 2017 Y-Prize winner proposed using ultrathin aluminum oxide implants to release eye pressure that leads to irreversible optic nerve damage.…Read More
The finalists in this year’s Y-Prize Competition have proposed ideas that would improve greenhouses, expedite heat removal in electronics, block sun from cars windows, and even defend against glaucoma.…Read More
The winner of the 2015-2016 Y-Prize competition is Fermento for their idea to use Penn-developed microfluidics technology to improve the production process of beer.…Read More
