Thursday, April 4, 2019
PhD candidate John Harris won third place at the Velocity Graduate Student Fund finals, a contest in which graduate students competed for an opportunity to win funds to help them develop their research projects into businesses. The finals are thanks to a generous contribution by alumnus Sam Pasupalak.
Harris won the $5,000 prize for his company called The Playful Pixel, a large-scale, face-to-face hybrid digital board game experience for 30 to 300 players, augmented with networked digital devices and sensor-embedded smart props to help strengthen social relationships. Read the full story.