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Global Entrepreneur Challenge Awards Ceremony Thursday, August 29, 2019 Latham, Ballroom, The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center

Awards Banquet Sponsored by:

The Global Entrepreneur Challengewill concludewith an Awards Ceremony. Thewinners will clearly demonstrate how their underlying technology and business concept met a customer need, the differentiated position their product or service would occupy in the marketplace, and their proposed business model and value proposition.

Thanks to our generous category prize sponsors, $45,000 will be awarded among top teams, including:

• $15,000 Advanced Manufacturing Award for the outstanding tangible product. Teams with a tangible product competing for this award include BigToto, Bioma, IMPAKT2, InnElektrik, Maroon Assistive Technologies, LLC, Pipe Clamper, and Winecore. • $15,000 Information Technology Award for the outstanding service. Teams with an intangible product or service competing for this award include Caressoma, GetCared, Hbenjoy, Maker Playground, Real42, Sooqua, and TeleNovela.

• $5,000 People’s Choice Award, which is determined by vote of audience members at the Challenge.

• An additional $10,000 grand prize will be awarded to one of the two teams that receive the $15,000 Advanced Manufacturing Award or the $15,000 Information Technology Award, by selection of the judging panel.

Category Prize Sponsors:

The 2018 grand prize was awarded to team GRACE of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile, who designed a biomedical device that eases tremor caused by Essential tremor and Parkinson’s Disease, assisting people in their recovery, in a non-invasive way, and improving their quality of life. Pictured from left to right include some of the 2018 judges, Jack Sepple and Lisa Garcia, with Team GRACE, Federico Jensen, Alex Carimán, faculty advisor Cedric Little, and Felipe Nagel, as well as judges, Tim Meyers and Todd Headley.

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