2023 Conrad Challenge Innovation Summit Awards

Celebrating the 2022-2023 Conrad Challenge Award Winning Teams

The Conrad Challenge Innovation Summit brought student innovators from around the world to showcase bold ideas, entrepreneurial thinking, and STEM-driven solutions to some of today’s most pressing global challenges.

We proudly recognize this year’s Conrad Challenge award-winning teams and all finalists. Let’s celebrate the next generation of innovators who are already building a better future.

Category | Aerospace & Aviation

Pete Conrad Scholars

BloomX2FM

While on deep space missions, astronauts must be able to grow fresh food to maintain a healthy diet, but there is limited space and time available to do so. BloomX2FM is a device that can emit both radio and sound waves in a controlled way to stimulate plant growth while in space and address this current challenge.

Power Pitch Award

Buz

To address the large amount of space debris currently present, SAM (Satellite Annihilation Module) is a module that removes malfunctioning satellites from orbit. This fast, light, and compact module will be installed on a satellite before its launch and can be activated when the satellite malfunctions.

Category | Cybertechnology & Security

Pete Conrad Scholars

SIREN

In response to the surge of school shootings, SIREN accurately detects gunshots and immediately calls law enforcement with a network of sensors placed throughout a school. It also alerts students, faculty, administrators, and parents and provides real-time mapping of the suspect’s location through SMS text communication.

Power Pitch Award

NeuroSole

Currently an accurate and affordable diagnosis system for Parkinson’s Disease does not exist and near 30% of the time the disease is misdiagnosed. NeuroSole is a portable, cheap, non-invasive, and easy-to-use early diagnostic system. This product consists of an insole and an app that utilizes artificial intelligence to detect Parkinsonian gait in patients.

Category | Energy & Environment

Pete Conrad Scholars

ASK

Designed to provide an easier transition to renewable solar energy, ASK is a revolutionary solution that integrates advanced photovoltaics, energy storage, and thermal absorbers into a single unit. The design eliminates the need for external batteries, reduces energy loss and increases efficiency by up to 20%.

Power Pitch Award

Erilux

Current streetlights are costly, and many are obsolete with today’s technology. Erilux seeks to innovate the energy industry with self-sustaining streetlights powered only by wind energy. These lights are grid-independent and require simple maintenance with a storage system that collects energy continuously to illuminate streets for the twelve hours needed.

Category | Health & Nutrition

Pete Conrad Scholars

UltraGrasp

UltraGrasp is a prosthetic forearm that is not only cost-effective and non-invasive, but also comfortable autonomous, and environmentally friendly. This is completely autonomous, eliminating electromyography and providing simple attachment-removal methods for patients.

Power Pitch Award

Multi-Functional Smart Cane

Multi-functional Smart Cane is designed to make walking indoors and outdoors more convenient and safe for the visually impaired by scanning the user’s environment and notifying them about what is happening around them.