Thursday, December 2, 2021
Student team featuring members from Waterloo Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering took home $5,000 each from the recent Concept $5k pitch competition for Fall 2021. Concept is an experiential entrepreneurship and pre-incubator program at the University of Waterloo. It is provided by Velocity, an incubator for early stage, pre-send startup companies.
Hydro House were among eight finalists competing for four prizes at the virtual event, which is staged three times a year.
- Hydro House - (Peter Cornelisse and Lucas Godkin, both in fourth-year Mechanical Engineering) is developing an off-grid, sustainable system to generate and store energy in remote communities.
One other team with Waterloo Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering also made the finals.
- HipPO - (Linda Mao and Evan Kim, both in fourth-year Mechatronics Engineering, and Bryan Poon, Pascal Voyer-Nguyen and Anthony Tran, all in fourth-year Mechanical Engineering) is developing a smart hip brace to promote pain relief and mobility for people with hip osteoarthritis.
Video pitches by all winning teams can be found on YouTube.