The College of Alaska Fairbanks Faculty of Company and Security Management awarded above $40,000 in dollars prizes and awards after the 2022 Arctic Innovation Competition’s final shows April 16.
The competitiveness, now in its 13th yr, invites innovators to propose new, possible and most likely worthwhile tips for resolving serious-lifetime complications and issues.
The top rated prize of $10,000 in the primary division, for ages 18 and up, was awarded to Zak Erving and Phil Belleau for their thought, “Prismatext: Browse a Book. Study a Language.” Prismatext makes use of a new procedure to generate blended language textbooks that little by little expose the reader to foreign terms and phrases to assist language understanding.
“In addition to adding new functions to our mobile application, we’re in the method of setting up interactions with publishers so we can include 1000’s of modern day titles to our bookshelves,” claimed Erving, CEO of Prismatext. “We’re also constructing equipment that we hope will revitalize the education and preservation of Indigenous languages of cultural significance.”
In the junior division, for youth ages 13 to 17 many years outdated, the $1,000 first-put prize was awarded for the No Snow Equipment, submitted by Joanna Joo, Phoebe Xu, Hannah Chang and Grace Li. Created to properly and successfully clear away snow from roofs, No Snow “vacuums” the snow from the roof by means of a pipe on to the back of a truck, with out the stress of shoveling it away.
In the cub division for youth ages 12 and less than, the to start with-area prize and $500 went to the Gadget Women for their thought, Cluck Box. Lauren Burgess, Shannan Burgess, Charlie Clark, Leah Lewellyn and Alex Lorenzana — an all-girl team — improved the layout of recent chick-shipping and delivery packing containers to assistance continue to keep chicks harmless, heat and fed throughout longer periods of time.
“Being from Alaska, I wished to be element of a local community that fosters creativeness and innovation in my home condition,” Erving shared. “I consider it’s crucial to spotlight homegrown achievements, and AIC is a excellent source that highlights new concepts in the Previous Frontier.”
Prime prize and honorable point out winners in the three divisions arrived from communities throughout Alaska — Anchorage, Copper Middle, Fairbanks, Juneau, North Pole and Wasilla — as very well as from Pennsylvania and Washington. A entire checklist of winners is offered on the AIC web site.
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