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Students at Trinity College\u2019s Summit Innovation Challenge in January presented new inventions designed as part of a fellowship that gets them thinking critically and creatively about solving real-world problems.<\/p>\n

Students taking part in the\u00a0Tyree Innovation Fellowship\u2014a two-year experience that builds innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets\u2014meet weekly to identify problems that they would like to solve. They then iterate through prototypes to a final pitch presentation in front of a live audience and judges in a Shark Tank<\/em>-style finale.<\/p>\n

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Nate Park \u201927 created the challenge\u2019s winning invention, Savor Sensor, a small device that detects allergens in food using a spectrometer. The runner-up was the Serenity app, presented by Abdulmohaymen Ghanaem \u201927, Joshua Manswell \u201927, and Raphael Ralston \u201927; it aims to help informal caregivers provide healthy, nutritious meals for their loved ones.<\/p>\n

Trinity students also presented six \u201cready for market\u201d products. The winner in this portion of the competition was Alexander Cacciato \u201925, whose\u00a0Flippit<\/a>\u00a0is an early-stage start-up that uses mobile technologies to allow air travelers to send prohibited items to themselves quickly and securely rather than surrender them at security checkpoints. The runner-up was Nathan Sykes \u201925, with The People Company, which\u00a0embeds offshore talent in domestic sales teams to shoulder a company\u2019s administrative burden.<\/p>\n

\"\"Launched in September 2022, the College\u2019s\u00a0Entrepreneurship Center\u00a0embraces Trinity\u2019s liberal arts curriculum and engages students in co-curricular and extracurricular learning experiences.\u00a0\u201cThe challenge really represents the front end of that process, teaching creativity, invention, and innovation skill sets so students can go on and engage in entrepreneurship programming later in their Trinity careers,\u201d said Danny Briere, executive director of the center. \u201cMore than anything else, the challenge teaches students to look at the world around them through a different lens. We want students to walk away with a view toward creative problem-solving, seeing the problems in the world around them and having the confidence to tackle solving them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Summit Innovation Challenge is the marquee program of the Tyree Innovation Fellowship, which recently was endowed by Kathryn George Tyree \u201986, a founding member of the\u00a0Entrepreneurship Center\u2019s Advisory Board. The competitive admission program, for which participants must be accepted to take part, helps students advance their college and postcollege careers\u2014no matter their intended major or direction\u2014by providing the framework to learn the skills, tools, and connections necessary to thrive in college and beyond.<\/p>\n

Judges for this year\u2019s challenge were\u00a0Tyree, Funston Trustee Shay Ajayi \u201916,\u00a0Trustee Liz Elting \u201987, John Howard \u201974, P\u201927, Tom Lazay \u201995,\u00a0and Trustee Lou Shipley \u201985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students at Trinity College\u2019s Summit Innovation Challenge in January presented new inventions designed as part of a fellowship that gets them thinking critically and creatively about solving real-world problems. Students taking part in the\u00a0Tyree Innovation Fellowship\u2014a two-year experience that builds innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets\u2014meet weekly to identify problems that they would like to solve. 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