Pete Conrad Scholars

AstraCell

AstraCell is an innovative alternate fuel cell technology that alleviates traditional fuels’ safety and durability concerns while optimizing cost and efficiency. Additionally, AstraCell benefits the environment by using a new biological component system. It is a profitable yet environmentally beneficial solution.

Power Pitch Award

Atmos

In tribute to NASA’s Columbia mission, Fibron is a well-functioning decelerator that enables landing of spacecraft at higher altitudes with a heavier payload and greater precision to ensure no amount of heat or pressure can tear apart plans for manned missions on Mars.

Pete Conrad Scholars & Power Pitch Award

GANGES

Using a Convolutional Neural Network approach, Ganges is a cohesive device designed to rapidly and accurately analyze microscopic images of water to detect microbial contamination that may cause water-borne diseases.

Pete Conrad Scholars

Adorbsy

Adorbsy is a menstruation product that is environmentally friendly made out of dragon fruit peel. This product is biodegradable and produced domestically but also to help resolve the problem of food waste.

Power Pitch Award

Greenswing

GreenSwing, a low-cost, easy-to-use device, harvests renewable energy from the kinetic energy of a door swing to electrify homes in an environmentally friendly way. With multiple units attached to doors in a home, this product can function as a personal energy system to power almost any household appliance.

Power Pitch Award

PyroTamer

PyroTamer is a mobile app that helps firefighters optimize access to critical equipment and focus on stopping wildfires as quickly as possible. This application will have the ability to plot resource locations and filter them based on what the firefighters need.

Pete Conrad Scholars

OXYPLY

OXYPLY strives to be a cost-efficient medical oxygen regulator substitute to conventional regulators, tailored to the needs of infants in developing countries. They serve two functions: regulating the oxygen flow rate and regulating the oxygen concentration.

Power Pitch Award

Zeno

Zeno is a mobile app that efficiently approaches Parkinson’s diagnosis and conducts an initial detection from the comfort of users’ homes using vocal biomarkers that appear in the early stages of the disease.

Pete Conrad Scholars

TobacCine

TobacCine successfully manufactures vaccines by using plants as bioreactors, which is faster, cheaper, and less complicated than the current method of using chicken eggs to grow vaccines. TobacCine utilizes modern technology and RNA interference to prevent the tobacco plant from developing crown gall disease.

Power Pitch Award

Creative Composites

Tobosite is an innovative and high-performing bio-composite material made from tobacco plants and pineapple leaf fibers, utilizing the natural properties of both biomaterials for industrial applications. The product is naturally durable, contains radiation shielding, processes efficiently, high supply and is cost-effective.

Chairman’s Award

• G. Holdings LLC
• The Glinsky Group

AIAA Scholarship Award

• Astracell

Civil Engagement & Social Media Award

• EKOM

Teacher of the Year Award | Dell Technologies Sustainable Packaging

• It’s a Girls World