Jack Rosen Memorial Pitch Competition

On November 13th, 2019, eleven teams competed for the Jack Rosen memorial pitch competition. Jack Rosen was an entrepreneur and recycling pioneer. In his honor,the Rosen family contributes to the growth of Entrepreneurship in the faculty of environment for the competition to find solutions to mitigate environmental problems. 

Entrepreneurship at Environment ( E @ E ), GreenHouse and the Environment Advancement office worked hand in hand to go through applications, host practice pitch sessions and organize the competition. 

Judges

Guest Judges: Sarah Walker- Co-Founder of Boosh All Natural Lipsticks Rainer Mueller- Principal at Mount Seven Group and CEO of William's Fresh Cafe Tania Del Matto- Director of St.Paul's GreenHouse

1st Place TRUM

Thermal Remote Unsupervised Monitoring (TRUM) Jonas Hamberg and Shahzad Lone

2nd Place EmpowerEQ

EmpowerEQ- Electricity Generating Water Barrel: Energy Quencher energy insecure areas namely, Malawi Guy Brodsky

3rd Place SheCycle

SheCycle- Anna Kuepfer, Leah Wouda, and Abby Loewen

Grand Prize Winner: Team TRUM

Jack Rosen participants, Judges and Family

An image capturing competitors, judges, Dean Jean Andre, and the Jack Rosen family. Thank you to those who made this year's pitch competition possible.

The eleven teams pitched their solutions in 3 minutes and were asked pressing questions for another 3 minutes by the judges: Rainer Mueller, Tania Del Matto, and Sarah Walker. 

The winners of the Grand Prize of $3000 was team TRUM (Thermal Remote Unsupervised Monitoring) by Shahzad Lone and Jonas Hamberg. Their project showcased the use of thermal imaging data from NASA satellite images with algorithms to track and predict the growth of trees. 

Team EmPowerEQ presented by Guy Brodsky secured second place. EmpowerEQ posed a solution that adresses energy insecurity in Malawi. Guy and his team made an “Energy Quencher” in the form of a water barrel which extracts kinetic energy and turns it into electricity used by Malawians to power their living. 

Team SheCycle: Leah Wouda, Anna Keupfer, and Abby Loewen showcased their solution to poor menstrual health management in developing countries, namely Uganda. Their solution was the creation of their antimicrobial sanitary pads.

This year's competition posed solutions not only to the problems adressed above but also to food inecurity, sustainable fashion, sustainable food production and packaging, as well as clean energy.

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