Engineering teams take three Concept pitch prizes

Congratulations Adrian Simone on your win from the fall 2021 Concept $5k pitch competition.

Three student teams featuring members from Waterloo Engineering took home $5,000 each from the recent Concept $5k pitch competition for fall 2021.

MicroBuild Masonry, Learnlist and Hydro House were among eight finalists competing for four prizes at the virtual event, which is staged three times a year.

MicroBuild (Adrian Simone, third-year civil engineering) is developing a sustainable, biological method to manufacture masonry units.

Learnlist (Aman Mathur, fourth-year systems design engineering) is an online platform to save, curate and share knowledge.

Hydro House (Peter Cornelisse and Lucas Godkin, both four-year mechanical engineering) is developing an off-grid, sustainable system to generate and store energy in remote communities.