2016 Winners

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists of the
2016 Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge!

SVIC Winners 2016

Mohak Rastogi and Michelle Vu proudly display H2flOw, a water consumption tracker that measures usage by individual rooms.

Best Overall Innovation

First Place Prize
H2flOw: A water consumption tracker that measures usage by individual rooms.
Mohak Rastogi, BS, Business Administration, Concentration in Management Information Systems
Kent Tran, BS Mechanical Engineering
Michelle Vu, BS, Business Administration, Concentration in Management Information Systems
Emilie Wang, BS, Business Administration, Concentration in Marketing

Second Place Prize
ObserVR: A clinician training app that uses virtual reality to reduce students’ need to commute to simulation labs and enable SIM centers to expand instructional bandwidth without the accompanying costs of expansion (trained instructors, facilities, and proprietary video systems).
Soham Badheka, MS, Software Engineering
Ta Chun Hsu, BS, Business Administration, Concentration in Finance
Bryan Dang, BS, Nursing
Nel Nerpio, MS, Human Factor Ergonomics
Karanbir Singh, MS Software Engineering

Third Place Prize
Sieve Pharmaceuticals: Provides drug screening based stem cells models and scientific opinions in the intermediate phase between discovery and preclinical for any company manufacturing rheumatoid arthritis drugs. All testing follows FDA regulations.
Vinayak Kambhampati, MS Biotechnology (MBT)
Safwanul Haque
Krutika Khinvasara

Best Social Innovation

Allieviate: An app that eliminates/bullying stress through activities and professional help.
All students from the Phillip J. Patiño School of Entrepreneurship, Fresno, CA
Maquela Halloway
Danhya Jimenez
Tayllor Lawson
Ashely Ruiz

Best Global Innovation

GlucoCarer: A non-invasive glucose measurement device.
Students from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania . . .
Kris Arandia
Sarunas Demjanovas
Eividas Kavolelis
Rolandas Jakaitis
Kipras Zabeliauskas
Partnered with SJSU students . . .
Stephanie Gutierrez, Business
Cassandra Reyes, BS, Business Administration, Concentration in Marketing

Best Educational Innovation

Tutor: On demand tutor service for enrolled students in specific universities.
Soraya Siahpolo, BS Computer Science
Niloofar Siahpolo, BS Biological Sciences

Best Elevator Pitch, $500

HyperLearn: Uses the neurological principles of attention span and peak interest to keep learning fun and engaging for elementary school students
Julian Velasquez, BS Business Administration, Concentration in Entrepreneurship
Avi Banerjee, BS Business Administration, Concentration in Entrepreneurship
Lucas Chatham, BS Computer Science

People’s Choice Award

Kool Breeze Solar Hat: Light-weight hat that provides UV protection and a pleasant breeze from solar powered fan.
Derek Brown, Phillip J. Patiño School of Entrepreneurship, Fresno, CA

Best Water Conservation Innovation

The HYRDA: Combines elements of modern faucet aerators and atomizers in the agricultural industry to greatly reduce water waste and over-flooding, which leads to nitrogen loss, erosion, and algae blooms
Christian Back, BS, Business Administration, Concentration in Accounting

Raffle and Goodie Bag Winners

Winner of Microsoft Surface Pro4 Prize Raffle

Alexis Cheung, BS Computer Engineering

Winners of Microsoft Goodie Bags

Abdellatif Abdelfattah , BS Software Engineering
Joshua Beisiegel, BS Business Administration, Concentration in Entrepreneurship