Resources
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Teams
Cohort 14: June – July 2022
Team 112:NanoClean Tech
EL 1: Pravalika Butreddy,
Graduate Research Assistant, Nanoengineering, UNCG.PI: Hemali Raythnayake
PhD, Nanoscience, UNCGDeveloping bio-based solid-state electrolytes
Team 113:See Beyond the Obvious
EL 1: Becky Oldham, School of Education
UNCG.EL2: John Cane
EL3: Lyza Fontana
Team 114: FrontFly
EL 1: Chijioke Nwankpa
Masters Student, Information Technology and Management, UNCGA customized data platform for nonprofits
Team 115:The ORB
EL 1: Stephen Hebard, PhD, UNCG Alum, CIO Prevention Strategies
EL2: Aaron Piepmeier, Assistant Professor, Department of Exercise Science, Elon University
Team 116:Seek Your Summit Counseling & Consulting
EL 1: Luke Vitagliano, PhD Student, Counseling and Counselor Education, UNCG
Nature-based mental health, clinical supervision, and group programming using the healing properties of nature
Team 117:Progel
EL 1: Philip Yeboah, Graduate Student, Food Science, NCAT
EL2: Rycal Blount, Graduate Student, Food Science, NCAT
EL3: Alaina Brock, Undergraduate Student, Food Science, NCAT
A Novel and Edible Probiotic Delivery Technology
Team 118: Witty Mind
EL 1: Delphina Lewis, NCAT Alum
A head wrap with attached hair for fashion or health issues.
Team 119: Performance Apparel
EL 1: Olivia Frangos
PhD Student, Kinesiology, UNCGPerformance Apparel for dancers and others who need a more supportive garment.
Cohort 13: October – November 2021
Team 103:ARD
EL 1: Steve Cook, NCAT Alumni
EL2: Arun Majumdar
EL3: Mel Cordova
EL4: Vern Fredrick
EL5: Wilder Lopes
EL6: Ron Jones
A multi-domain data analytic analytic platform using advanced graph processing software called Semantic Radar.™
Team 104: Gummie Formulators
EL 1: Hannah Hovey, Food and Nutritional Sciences Program, NCAT
EL2: Nathan Zauner, Food and Nutritional Sciences Program NCAT
PI: Thal Zimmerman, NCAT
Drug Discovery/Molecular Screening
Team 105: Global Biz Connection
EL 1: Richard Sink, UNCG
A platform for bridging the gaps for small business to come together on the global stage.
Team 106: Chemical Footprint
EL 1: Sterling Morgan, UNCG
A carbon footprint counter that educates the user of the average greenhouse emissions in common activities and is a source for green alternatives.
Team 107: Disability Across the Ages
EL 1: Lisa Butterworth, PhD Student, Specialized Education, Early Childhood, UNCG
Early Childhood classroom visual poster sets and children’s books that show people with disabilities of all ages.
Team 108: MeaningfulLives
EL1: Jameson Sellers, UNCG CED Alumna, Clinical Mental Health Counseling
EL 2: Angiemil Pérez Peña, PhD CED Alumna, Counseling & Counselor Education
MeaningfuLives is a non-profit mental health practice that offers affordable trauma and culturally informed online counseling.
Team 109: Rogers Technical Solutions
EL 1: Jonathan Rogers, Sophomore, Psychology, UNCG
Power generation from using the ocean’s movement.
Team 110: Light, Inc.
EL 1: Breezy Moses, Masters Student in International Business, UNCG
Product that will allow cooking with solar energy.
Team 111: Athletic Nutrition Bar
EL 1: Abdulhakim Eddin, PhD student, Food and Nutritional Sciences Program, NCAT
A natural high energy nutrition bar with long stable shelf-life.
Cohort 12: July – August 2021
Team 96:Optimal Female Health (OFH)
EL 1: Samantha (Sam) Goldenstein, PhD Student, Kinesiology UNC Greensboro
PI: Laurie Wideman, PhD Kinesiology
A a quick and easy screening tool for all physically active females to identify if they are at risk for the female athlete triad, potentially through an app.
Team 97: Biome
EL 1: Arvind Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor, Chemical, Biological, BioEngineering, NCAT
EL2: Simrit Safarulla, NCAT
EL:3 Vikram Surendran, NCAT
Drug Discovery/Molecular Screening
Team 98:StoryArt
EL 1:Sapphira Kelsey Lam, Graduate student, Graduate student UNC Greensboro
Team 99: EzViz
EL 1: Thien-An Doan, Senior, Information Management & Supply Chain UNC Greensboro
Software app to assist in the presentation of information on the web.
Team 100: Art is For Everyone (AFE)
EL 1: Chloe Rush, Sophmore, Studio Art, UNC Greensboro
A non-profit that will provide marginalized high school students who plan to pursue the visual arts in college with: free art supplies, scholarships, and successful artists guest speakers
Team 101: LS Nano
EL 1: Frank Tukur, Graduate Student, Sophomore, Studio Art, UNC Greensboro
PI: Jianjun Wei, Ph.D., Associate Professor JSNNA portable, hand-held sensor for disease diagnostics. The sensor size gives it the added advantage to be used at the patient bedside or taken to emergency locations such as war zones.
Team 102: C-Ties
EL 1: Anju Mehta, Assistant Professor of Management, NCAT
Curtain Tie Backs that do not attach to the wall or frame.
Cohort 11: January – February 2021
Team 84: SecConAPat
EL 1: Imano Williams, PhD Student, NC A&T State University
A semi-automated tool that recommends security concerns and attack patterns for web applications by modeling use cases.
Team 86: Team Blue
EL 1: Rhonda Stewart
EL 2: Karen Presley, NC A&T State University Alumn
A tool to streamline the lean startup customer discovery process by using data analytics and a proprietary relational database to recommend customers based on their responses to a series of questions and provide contact information for those customers to interview.
Team 87: Sow ‘N Heal
EL 1: Brittany Ward, Senior UNCG
My business will provide an online marketplace for the purchase of alkaline seeds and grow to offer alkaline seedlings.
Team 88: Music Ancestry
EL 1: Kassandra Ormsby, PhD candidate
MusicAncestry is a nonprofit organization which supports the website MusicAncestry.com ( is a crowdsourced website in which the data is provided by and collaboratively verified for authenticity by the page administrators and users ) in order to fulfill its vision to create a knowledge database of music pedagogical lineage available to the entire online music community for free.
Team 91: EA Brothers
EL 1: Abdou Seck, Senior UNCG
Creating a sustainable, long life shower curtain.
Team 94: Bullshaver
EL 1: David Bull, AssistantProfessor, UNCG
Creating a I have an idea and prototype drawing for a golf training aid.
Team 95: SYX Footwear
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EL 1: Chelsea Wilson, Senior, NC A&TDeveloping a brand that uses organic materials to create sustainable yet fashionable footwear.
Cohort 10: October – November 2020
Team 74: Healthy Relationships Initiative (HRI)
EL 1: Camila Dos Santos, Program Coordinator, UNCG
PI : Christine Murray, Director, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships
We will be developing a business strategy for marketing “Healthy Relationships in the Workplace” resources to businesses and human resource departments in different job sectors.
Team 75: NC High Fidelity Wraparound Training Program
EL 1: Erica Velez, Implementation Specialist
EL 2: Jessica Attucks, Program Associate, NC HFWTP
PI : Christine Murray, Director, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships, UNCG
We will be working to plan the expansion of the NC High Fidelity Wraparound Training Program from 20 to all 100 counties in North Carolina.
Team 76: PodKnow
EL 1: Jeremy Hudson, Senior UNCG
PI : Aaron Beveridge, Assistant Professor, Informatics & Analytics, UNCG
PodKnow collects data from podcasts (top 200 overall and Triad area) to provide content analytics for advertisers, businesses, journalists, politicians, and anyone else who wants to make sense of trending topics and conversations without having to listen to every podcast.
Team 77: Tutor Communications
EL 1: Anna Kristen PhD candidate
PI : Kim Cuny, Director, Speaking Center, Division of Student Success & Com Studies
M: Erin Ellis Harrison, Speaking Center Assistant Director, Speaking Center Assistant Director
M: Jenny Southard, Speaking Center Coordinator, UNCG
Developing a methodology and accompanying delivery method to help tutors better communicate
Team 78: Global Mobile Finance, Inc.
EL 1: Lydia Epps, COO, GMF
PI: Sandra Johnson, CEO, GMF
Global Mobile Finance has developed geeRemit, a customer-focused remittance mobile app for sub-Saharan Africa.
Team 79: Bringing Out the Best of Brunswick
EL 1: Dr. Brittany Hewet, >UNCG Alum, Program Specialist CYFCP
PI : Christine Murray, Director, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships
M: Janet Howard, Program Director, CYFCP
Expansion of an existing and thriving early intervention program to a smaller/rural area of North Carolina.
Team 80: SensoryScape
EL 1: Amy Thompson, EC Teacher, Moss Street Partnership School
EL 2: Stephen Thompson
K-5 Active Hallway Activities
Team 81: Aggie Ogun Innovations LLC
EL 1: Tori Patterson, NCAT Alum
Modular Drone Platform
Team 82: Sankofa Connects
EL 1: Channelle James, Lecturer, Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality & Tourism, UNCG
Creating an online platform and app that connects a sustainable entrepreneurship curriculum with an interdisciplinary project matching process so that faculty, students, and entrepreneurs can develop practicum experiences based on sustainable value projects.
Team 83: Transform-U Mentoring
EL 1: Dr. Tanya Coakley, Professor and Associate Chair Social Work, UNCG
Evidenced-based mentoring for underrepresented employees (corporate organizations, academic institutions)
Cohort 9: July – August 2020
Team 62: Pulse coding L.L.C.
EL 1: Joshua Karlton-senaye, UNCG
CalcPlusWeb2 tutoring focuses on providing quick tutoring service to students and parents.
Team 63: TheHornProfessor
EL 1: Abigail Pack, PhD, UNCG
Create online packages/pdfs/subscriptions, etc. of materials, videos and relevant necessary teaching/pedagogy strategies and resources that will help public school teachers develop stronger horn players in their music programs.
Team 64: SMART Kinesiology
EL 1: Mairym Villalobos Solís, PhD Student, UNCG
EL 2: Rene Mirabal Cordero, CPA, SRTP
M: Emmanuel Hernández Torres, PhD. University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
A virtual platform to connect kinesiology professionals into a community of learning and obtain continuing education credits focused on promoting evidence-based practice.
Team 65: Hydr8te
EL 1: Mitchell Zaplatosch, PhD Student, UNCG
PI : William Adams, PhD, ATC, UNCG
Develop an app-based hydration monitoring system.
Team 66: Triad Food & Trade
EL 1: Omar Fatah, Owner
EL 2: Sara Manchester, Partner
PI : Marianne LeGreco, Associate Professor, UNCG
Developing an in-house ordering system for a commercial food incubator and retail grocery market that serves both the general public and people living in neighborhoods with low food access.
Team 67: Team Fish
EL 1: Ranganatha Somasagara, Post Doc, NCCU
PI : TinChung Leung Associate Professor, NCCU
M: Royston Carter, Biotechnology Research and Consulting
Developing a high-throughput zebrafish platform which is capable to screen vaccine candidates quickly and prioritize potential vaccine candidates based on the read out of “humanized” immune response.
Team 68: Hygieni-Bee
EL 1: Phoebe Snyder, PhD Student, UNCG
PI : Kiara Wagoner, PhD, UNCG
Pheromone-based assay to select for honey bee hygienic behavior, to improve honey bee health and fight harmful Varroa mite.
Team 69: CAR PreDiKT
EL 1: Qassim Dirar, PhD, Alum, NCAT
PI : Yeoheung Yun, PhD, Chemical, Biological & Bioengineering
M: Gianpietro Dotti, PhD, Director Cancer Cellular Immunotherapy, UNC
Team 70: Artful
EL 1: David Walls, Senior, UNCG
Website that will serve as a social media platform for professional artists while also serving as a tool for museums, galleries, and other arts organizations to find innovative artists.
Team 71: NPO Booster
EL 1: Ramin Mahdizadeh Saber, Masters, UNCG
EL 2: Roshanak Ashrafi, PhD,UNCC
PI : Travis Hicks, PhD, Associate Professor, UNCG
Platform to help Not-for-profit organizations communicate better with investors and donors.
Team 72: GMetric3D Knee Sleeve
EL 1: Hunter Holden, PhD Student, UNCG
EL 2: Beth Bacon, MS,PhD Student, UNCG
EL 3: Koehna Fox, Senior, UNCG
PI 1: Sandy Shultz, PhD, ATC, Professor, UNCG
PI 2: Dennis LaJeunesse, PhD, Professor, UNCG
PI 3: Randy Schmitz, PhD, ATC, Professor, UNCG
M: Robert Koshinskie, CEO, RingBolt
Design a knee sleeve that can be individually customized to provide dynamic motion restraint in the planes of motion where excessive knee laxity is observed.
Team 73: Innovation Therapies, PLLC
EL 1: Denise Dawson, PhD, UNCG
EHR system that uses bluetooth connection to sync biometric data from tablets and smart rings worn by therapy patients with medical conditions to improve care coordination and treatment.
Cohort 8: January – February 2020
Team 57: Pumpkin
EL 1: Enoch Sarku, MA Student, NCAT
Pumpkin app seeks to streamline the process as a platform for customers and farms to come together.
Team 57: Stark Industries
PI: Dr. Liam Duffy, Asst. Professor, Chem & Biochem, UNCG
M: David Koester, Gen. Manager, Koester Associates, LLC.An analytical instrument to identify and separate molecular isomers using a novel form of mass-spectrometry based on the Stark Effect.
Team 59: Team Clean
EL 1: Raphael Ayivi, Graduate Research Assistant, NCAT
EL 2: Will Lawson, MA Student, NCAT
EL 3: Ezinne Chukwu, Graduate Research Assistant, NCAT
PI: Dr. Salam Ibrahim, Senior Professor, NCAT
EL 2: Dr. Tahl Zimmerman, Senior Research Assoc., NCATOur idea is to create a cleaning product containing a novel set of natural antibacterial agents.
Team 60: HertzTech
EL 1: Jennifer Kim, Senior, UNCG
M : Andrew Willis, DMA, Professor, Performing Arts, UNCGWe are interested in developing a spa with therapeutic products for improving life skills and social functioning for those specifically on the Autism Spectrum imbued with grounding materials which research shows increases mental focus and energy and is relaxing for the body.
Team 61: Silver Linings
EL 1: Kristina Szelkowski, Senior, UNCG
Silver Linings will develop an app of grounding techniques for anxiety, panic attacks, & PTSD.
Cohort 7: October – November 2019
Team 51: Variant Literature, Inc.
EL 1: Tyler Pufpaff, Senior, UNCG
EL 2: Dasiy Brewer, Freshman, UNCG
EL 3: Anna Grissino, UNC AlumNon-profit literary arts publication.
Team 52: City Biome
EL 1: Nastaran Pourebrahim, PhD Student, UNCG
EL 2: Armin Amirazar, PhD Student, UNCGCityBiome use real time sensor data to monitor air and water for bacterial contamination.
Team 53: Counseling Trauma
EL 1: Phyllis Ann Eicher, PhD Student, UNCG
The creation of a simple app for a resource for counselors to use with their clients who have experienced trauma and are recovering from it.
Team 54: CarbonScraps
EL 1: Joseph Sircar, PhD Student, UNCG
EL 2: Suman Kasoji
EL 3: Sunny Kasoji, Career Services, UNCGCarbonscraps is valet composting and trash service for apartment complexes that rewards eco-friendly practices by leveraging cutting-edge behavioral change techniques.
Team 55: SumUpPATH
EL 1: Sumaita Rahman, Freshman, UNCG
EL 2: Merve Ozdemir, PhD Student, UNCG
PI: Jonathan Hanner, Asst. Professor, SES, UNCGDevelop an online community of resources for parents with special needs children.
Team 56: Team Green
EL 1: Will Lawson, MA Student, NCAT
EL 2: Dr. Tahl Zimmerman, Senior Research Assc., Food & Nutritional Science.
PI: Dr. Salam Ibrahim, Senior Professor, Food & Nutritional Science.We have developed a method for producing high quality bacteria using agricultural waste and want to license this technology to producers of probiotic products.
Cohort 6: July – August 2019
Team 43:More Than Thanks
EL: Jessica Navarro, MSW, UNCG
PI: Jonahan Tudge, PhDBuilding upon five years of research about gratitude with children and adolescents, we plan to write, design, and publish a children’s book exemplifying gratitude as a virtue to be practiced through action, not just words.
Team 44: Backpack Bolster
EL: Jewel Moser, Sophomore in Business & Marketing, NCAT
The Backpack Bolster is an innovative solution to the common problems of back, neck, and shoulder pain related to the use of heavy book bags.
Team 45: SkillDivvy
EL1: Matthew Mullens, Senior in Engineering, NCAT
EL2: Curt Meinhold, Center for Creative Leadership
SkillDivvy is an application that helps organizations better understand existing culture, leverage internal skills, and deliver higher rates of engagement and satisfaction by understanding the values, skills, and interests of individuals and teams.
Team 46: PROPS
EL1: Victoria Coble, Senior in Integrated Professional Studies
EL2: Shane Coble
EL3: Catherine Goetz, Career Services, UNCG
M: Stefan Goetz
PROPS is a social peer-to-peer challenge network where you can track challenges with your friends.
Team 47: Grenergy Solutions
EL: Nafeezuddin Mohammad, Graduate Student Nano-Chemical
Dr. Debasish Kuila, Chemistry, NCAT
Dr. Omar Basha, Chemistry, NCAT
Utilize carbon dioxide to build a modular plant with same throughput as the conventional chemical plants with micro-reactor technology.
Team 48: E-ARTSTUDIOS
EL1: Esha Hickson, UNCG Alum, Kinesiology/Dance
EL2: Kenae Williams, Senior, Apparel & Retail Consumer Studies
PI: Craig Peck PhD
M: Dr. William Boone, WSSU
Online Dance Streaming Portal
Team 49: Postbiotic Labs
EL1: Omar Singleton, Neuroscience, WFU
EL2: Alex Ilyasov, Neuroscience, WFU
PI: Hariom Yadav, PHD
M: Peter Sheldrake, PhD
Postbiotic Labs is a microbiome health solutions company that is translating research from Wake Forest School of Medicine into a commercial food additive and dietary supplement. Our product, LPD3.5, is a postbiotic, or inactivated probiotic, which delivers the benefits of a probiotic while being able to be used in shelf-stable food and beverage products.
Team 50: IYN Inc. – SafeRise
EL1: Lanita Johnson, UNCG Alum, Peace and Conflict Studies-Masters
EL2: Peggy Johnson
EL3: Brenisha Thompson
EL4: Kanica Bryant
EL5: Lashanda Sanford
SafeRise (product name) will become a leading piece of technology for parents all across the world.
Cohort 5: January – February 2019
Team 34: Robust Big Data Analysis
EL: Yang Peng, Masters Student, Stastics, UNCG
Bety Rostandy, Masters Student, Stastics, UNCG
Philip Zhu, Masters Student, Stastics, UNCGPI: Xiaoli Gao, Associate Professor, Math & Statistics, UNCG
Providing robust data analysis by incorporating both scientific and industrial facts into statistical modeling efficiently.
Team 35: ReP DS
EL: Folasade Adekanle, Undergrad, Biomechanical Engineering, NC A&T
PI: Ronald Gamble, Adjunct Professor, Physics, NCAT
The goal of this project is to reduce the cost of dialysis by finding a way to reuse the dialysis solution.
Team 36: NC^2
EL: Philip Agbo, PhD Student, Nanoengineering, NCAT
Sidharth Karnati, PhD Student, Nanoengineering, NCATPI: Dongyang De, Assistant Professor, Department of Built Environment, NCAT
Mentor: Lifeng Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Built Environment
We are developing an Environment-friendly epoxy polymer composites reinforced with nanofillers for lighter and stronger structures for a variety of applications including Automobiles, Aerospace, Construction.
Team 37: SMRDI
EL: Brian Sims, Executive Director, Jomoworks
Jonaé Brown, Undergrad, NCCU
Kevin Moore, JomoworksPI: Eric Saliim, PhD, Adjunct Instructor, Biological & Biomedical Sciences, NCCU
Mentor: Undi Hoffler, PhD, Director, Research Compliance and Technology Transfer, NCCU
The Social Media Research Dissemination Initiative (SMRDI) enables research organizations to connect with new audiences and stakeholders through social media.
Team 38: Random Bytes
EL: Nathaniel Jones, Grad Student, Community Development, UNCG
Kouame N’Dri, Undergrad, computer Science, UNCGA mobile platform that provides a curated experience when it comes to searhing an optimum dining experience.
Team 39: Leaders of Real Destiny
EL: Lauren Simmons, PhD Student, Education & Cultural Foundations, UNCG
PI: Craig Peck, PhD, Associate Professor, ELC Department, UNCG
Mentor: Angela Mauldin, CEO, Collegiate Advocacy Group
My idea encompasses providing a character education curriculum designed for at-risk youth.
Team 40: Latinx Mental Health
EL: Camila Pulgar Guzman, PhD Student, Counseling and Education Development, UNCG
PI: Nathaniel Ivers, PhD, Department Chair, WFU
Our project is about creating prevention materials that providers can use in their clinic when they don’t have a bilingual therapist on-site.
Team 41: Starlyng
EL: Amir Young, Undergrad, Biology, UNCG
Nick Badgion, Undergrad, Business Administration, Salem College
Krystle Watkins, Alumni, Marketing, WSSUStarlyng is an online platform that connects women and minority businesses owners to business development opportunities.
Team 42: Nano Mosaic
EL: Sheeba Dawood, PhD Student, Nanoengineering, UNCG
PI: Hemali Rathnayke, PhD, Nanoscience, UNCG
Mentor: Glenn Seymour
Product offers high surface area and high sbsorption capability to recover lithium from waste, sewage, and sea water.
Cohort 4: October – November 2018
Team 24: SoftOffice
EL: Emmanuel Nuakoh, PhD Student Computer Science, NC A&T
Team 25: Jabin
EL: Homayoon Ershadi, Alum UNCG
M: Ged King, CEO, SFW Agency
Team 26: Motivate to Participate
EL: Misti Wajciechowski, Ph.D. UNCG Kinesiology
PI: Michael Hemphill, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
M: Benita Turner, Health and Physical Education Specialist, Henrico County Public Schools
Team 27: FaniBath
EL: Mandy Marchitello, UNCG Alum
PI: Michael Hemphill, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Team 28:Act4PM
EL: Si Zhu, Ph.D. Family and Consumer Sciences NC A&T
PI: Guibing Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Family and Consumer Sciences NC A&T
Team 29: Eco-Organize
EL: Thayle Heggie, Masters, Public Health UNCG
PI: Regina McCoy, Associate Professor Public Health Education
Team 30: Nanofibers
EL: Nafisa Sirelkhatim, Research Scholar, Nanoengineering NC A&T
PI: Lifeng Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor Nanoengineering NC A&T
Team 31 SangLab
EL: Yingdon Zhu, PhD,
EL: Hunter SnooksPI: Shangmin Sang, PhD, Professor, Nutrition
Team 33: EverywhereAd
EL: Rashaad Galloway, Post Bacc, Bio Chemistry,
EL: Dezbee McDanielM: Tunji Williams, CEO DealWip
Cohort 3: March-April 2018
Team 16: Energy Harvesting
EL: Ryan Yarborough, PhD Nanoscience, JSNN
PI: Hemali Rathnayrke, Assistant Professor, Nanoscience
Team 17: iGit Company
EL1: Eric Mitchell, Co-Founder, iGit Company, LLC
EL2: Yolanda Mitchell, Co-Founder, iGit Company, LLC
PI: Justin Streuli, Director, LaunchUNCG
M: Jim Boyer, Principal Infrastructure Architect, SRS Technology, LLC
Team 18: Health eCoach Team
EL: Maurine Crouch, MA Public Health Education
PI: Regina McCoy, Professor, Public Health Education
M: Andy Brewer, Instructional Technologist, Northwest Area Health Education Center
Team 19: NanoMatrix
EL: Sara Abbasi Razgaleh, PhD, JSNN
PI: Shyam Aravamudhan, Associate Professor, Nanoengineering
M: Jim Ryan, PhD, Founding Dean of JSNN
Team 20: Diversity Training
EL: Jennifer Klaiber, GAA, Human Development and Family Studies
PI: Dan Perlman, Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
M: Elliott Kimball, Assistant Director, Office of Interculteral Engagement
Team 21: Garage Sky
EL1: Trevor Nelson, Accounting & Finance
EL2: Cameron Nelson, Supply Chain
PI: Thaddeus McEwen, Professor, Business Administration
M: Carlos C Mims, Vice President, Trapp Insurance Group
Team 22: Aquatic Defender
EL: Renuka Panchagavi, PhD Chemistry, Computation Science
PI: Scott Harrison, Assistant Professor, Biology
M: Chris Veal, MBA, Counselor, SBTDC
Team 23: Biochar Production
EL: Natasha McMaster, Biological Engineering
PI: Abolghasem Shahbazi, Professor, Biological Engineering
M: Matthew Todd, Research Technician, NCAT
Cohort 2: January-February 2018
Team 8: Precision Edge Performance
EL – Katie Thompson, Ed.D., Kinesiology
EL – Jill Wierzba, Ed.D., Kinesiology
PI – Dianne Gill, Ph.D., Professor, Kinesiology
M – Mark Geske, Lietutenant, Fayetteville Police Department
Innovating theoretically and empirically based holistic human performance training to include non-invasive measurement, monitoring, recording, and analyzing of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in combination with systematic applied performance psychology and kinesiology methodologies.
Team 9: BrainCARE(Delayed participation to further improve their innovation)
EL – Nicole Thomas, MA, Public Health Education
PI – Jeff Milroy, Professor, Public Health Education
M – David Wyrick, Founder, Prevention Strategies LLC
Our product would be an app that incorporates intermittent public health messages including but not limited to recognizing the signs and symptoms of concussions throughout cognitive training games (may include games that improve memory, attention, reaction time, and problem solving).
Team 10: Cognitive Support Device for Individuals with Autism (CSDIA)EL – Hannah Townsend, Ph.D., Specialized Education Services
EL – Pavand Kethinedi, Computer Science
PI – Pamela Williamson, Professor, Education
The longterm purpose of this project will be to develop a cognitive prosthetic device to support the executive function skills of individuals with autism.
Team 11: Team Market SegEL – Phillip Sheldon, MPA
PI – Stephen Sills, Director, CHCS
M – Allison Bramwell, Ph.D.
Using methods from the social sciences, we want to help communities understand their neighborhoods and focus investment into areas in which they can get the most “bang-for-their-buck.”
Team 12: Juvenile Navigating System – JNSEL – Sadric Bonner, Training and Technical Assistance Specialist, UNCG CYFCP
PI – Ken Gruber, Ph.D., UNCG CYFCP
M – Natalie Patrics Tucker, Accessibility Program Manager
We wish to create a smartphone app allowing people to track loved ones in the juvenile justice system.
Team 13: Onyx OceanEL – Fa’Lon Thomas, Entrepreneuirship & Business
PI – Thaddeus McEwen, Ph.D., Professor, Managment
M – Christina Tupper, Professor, Management
Our mission is to build a full curriculum for STEM classes and summer campsTeam 14: Wellness Council of North Carolina
EL – GracieLee Weaver, Ph.D., Public Health Education
PI – Dan Bibeau, Professor, Public Health Education
Our aim is to develop a locally oriented wellness council serving the NC region.Team 15: Toxicity Database as a Service
EL – Joseph Mwangi, Ph.D., Medical Biochemistry
PI – Norman Chiu, Ph.D., Professor, Chemistry
M – Charles R. Cantor, Ph.D., Sequenom Inc.
We’re going to create a novel platform and reference database for high throughput screening for in vitro chemical toxicity.
Cohort 1 – October – November 2017
Team 1: 3i-Nano JSNN
EL – Taylor Mabe Ph.D., Nanoscience JSNN
PI – Jianjun Wei, Ph.D., Associate Professor JSNN
M – Brad Hayes, Retired CFO, LabCorp
3i Nanotech makes point-of-care devices that could replace the large, bench-top instruments that are currently used for disease diagnostics and protein detection. A handheld biological sensor yields immediate results in a low-cost, portable format.
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Team 2: Targeting Virulence
EL – Cassandra Naphen, Ph.D., Chemistry
PI – Nadja Cech, Ph.D., Professor, Chemistry
M – Cedric Pearce, Ph.D., CEO, Mycosynthetix
Targeting Virulence is a new therapeutic strategy to shut down bacterial pathogenesis (i.e. toxin production). Through this isolation methodology, we hope to create a natural way to break the cycle of drug resistance.
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Team 3: Cardiac Wellness Assessment Tool
EL – Shane Loeffler, Ph.D. Nanoscience, JSNN
PI – Joseph Starobin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Nanoscience
M – Ryan Barry, MBA, Strategic Projects Coordinator, ORE
This Cardiac Wellness Assessment Tool focuses on monitoring the reserve of cardiac repolarization as a tool for quantification of the influence of physical, emotional and environmental stressors on cardiac performance in asymptomatic population.
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Team 4: ArthroLax
EL – James Coppock, MS Applied Neuromechanics, Kinesiology
El – Elvis Foli, MS Applied Neuromechanics, Kinesiology
PI – Sandra Shultz, Ph.D., Professor, Kinesiology
M – Robert Koshinskie, MBA, Principal Consultant, Ringbolt Services
Arthrolax is developing a device that can efficiently and accurately characterize and measure multi-planar knee ligament integrity.
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Team 5: Solelectrolyte
EL – Alla Letfullina, Ph.D. Nanoscience, JSNN
PI – Sungjin Cho, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Nanoengineering
Solelectrolyte’s goal is to achieve the next generation energy storage device by developing a solid state electrolyte membrane.
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Team 6: Shorti
EL – Keenan Smith, Co-founder, BrownBoxWorks, NCAT Alumni
PI – Everette Slocum, Co-founder, BrownBoxWorks, NCAT
M – Thaddeus McEwen, Ph.D., Professor, Management
M – Lou Ann Flanders-Stec, MBA, EVP of Entrepreneurship, Launch Greensboro
Shorti is an iOS and Android writing app that allows users to imagine, create and share short stories and poems of up to 1500 words.
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Team 7: Super SAPS
EL – Michael Assad, Ph.D. Nanoscience, JSNN
PI – Dan Herr, Professor & Dept Chair, Nanoscience
M – Justin Streuli, MBA
Super SAPS is focused on developing an improved superabsorbant material applicable in a variety of industries.
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Curriculum
As a prerequisite for participating in the I-Corps program, all team members are required to watch a set of videos that are integrated into the Friday classroom sessions. All videos feature Steve Blank, a legendary startup leader who developed the “Lean Launchpad Methodology,” serving as the basis of the I-Corps Program.
- Week One: Business Model Canvas
- Week Two: Pre-Planning Customer Delivery
- Week Three: Customer Discovery Interviews
- Week Four: Outside the Building
- Week Five: Back in the Building
Information Session Recording 10/7/20
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Expenses Info
Budget & Duration
During the 5-week cohort period, each team is allotted a budget of $1,000. This may be flexible if necessary.
After the completion of 20-30 interviews teams will have access to an additional $2,000-$3,000 to utilize over a 5-month period for addition customer discovery and prototype development.
Approved Expenses
Below is a list of acceptable and unacceptable expenses. Before you spend any money, please contact us for approval:
Acceptable
- Local travel (mileage)
- Out of state hotel
- Flight, Conference Fees
- Webcam, mic for video
- Other items related to Customer Discovery
- LATER – Prototyping
Unacceptable
- International travel
- Entertainment
- Business expenses
- Legal fees
- Paying people
- Academic conferences
- Expenses for people not on your team
Pre-Approved Travel
- Pre-approved travel can be paid ahead of time using the UNCG Purchase Card for UNCG faculty, staff and students. This travel included conferences, airfare, out of state hotels and other similar travel expenses.
- To utilize this feature, make sure to get approval, then please contact Jan Szelkowski for next steps as well as complete a TRV-1, see linked below under “Relevant Forms”.
Mileage Reimbursement
- Mileage is reimbursed at a standard rate determined by the state of NC. There are separate rates for daily mileage over and under 100 miles. rates are subject to change without notice.
- For mileage reimbursement, we need to be provided an excel sheet with the point to point addresses for each trip, mileage between those locations, reason for the trip, and a google maps printout of the directions complete with a map.
- All mileage can be turned in at once, but remember to keep it within the 60-day time limit for reimbursement.
Special Notes
- All expenses must be reimbursed within 60-days. Please try to turn in expenses within 30-days just to be safe.
- To be reimbursed, the original receipt must be provided. If you do not provide the original receipt, you may not be able to get reimbursed.
- We can only cover expenses related to customer discovery. Make sure to review the acceptable vs. unacceptable.
Relevant Forms
- TRV-1: Travel Authorization/Expense Report
- TRV-S: Student Non-Employee Travel Agreement
- W9 Taxpayer Form
Contacts
Jan Szelkowski
Assistant Director, NCEC
1613A MHRA
1111 Spring Garden St.Email: jiszelko@uncg.edu | Office (336) 256-8649
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Links
Business Model Canvas
- Business Model Canvas (9:41)
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Amazon Prime Business Model (2:06)
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Disney Business Model (2:15)
Pre-Planning Customer Discovery
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Pre-Planning Pt. 1 (4:55)
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Pre-Planning Pt. 2 (3:25)
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Pre-Planning Pt. 3 (1:29)
Customer Discovery Interviews
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Interviews Pt. 1 (5:40)
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Interviews Pt. 2 (3:49)
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Asking the Right Questions (2:37)
Outside the Building
- Death by Demo 1 (2:18)
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Death by Demo 2 (1:45)
- Assuming You Know What the Customer Wants (1:56)
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Understanding the Customer Problem (the wrong way) or Death By PowerPoint (1:42)
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Customers Lie (2:37)
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The Distracted Customer (3:12)
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Engaging the Customer (3:37)
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Customer Empathy (2:25)
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Multi-Person Interview (2:03)
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B-to-B to C (2:15)
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Existing vs. New Markets (5:29)
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Public Interviews (2:11)
Back in the Building
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Extracting Insight From Data (2:59)
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Getting the MVP Right (3:34)
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Pay Attention to Outliers (2:16)
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The “Other 85%” (2:32)
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