Stories indexed under: Student competitions

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• Runner tracking app wins inaugural Qualcomm Wireless prize April 29, 2011 A smartphone application that will allow running race observers to keep track of particular runners in real time has won $10,000 and top prize at the inaugural University of Wisconsin-Madison Qualcomm Wireless Innovation Prize.
• Engineering students compete with unique inventions Dec. 13, 2010 A pedal-powered riding lawn mower, a green garbage disposal, an attachment for wheelchairs that increases traction in slick conditions: These, and others, are the designs that circulate inside engineering students' minds.
• UW-Madison undergrads to design a room that’s literally out of this world Sept. 15, 2010 Think of it as a high-tech screened porch for astronauts.
• Competition invites students to invent the future of wireless technology Sept. 8, 2010 A new competition this year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will challenge students to discover and build the next big idea in wireless technology, a field that continues to transform the way the world communicates.
• Students represent UW-Madison in national aerospace competition July 6, 2010 Five University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate engineering mechanics and astronautics (EMA) students took their leaping lunar-vehicle design to a national aerospace competition.
• UW-Madison students compete for national title in advertising competition May 25, 2010 Finishing school, making rent, finding a first job, hanging out with friends - all top concerns of young adults.
• Clean sweep for UW-Madison snowmobile team April 1, 2010 For the second year running, the University of Wisconsin-Madison rode to the top of both divisions of the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge held at Michigan Technological University.
• Fruit tree sprayer wins UW-Madison innovation competition Feb. 12, 2010 A system to make fruit tree pesticide spraying safer for people and the environment won the top prize and $10,000 in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, an annual competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that rewards innovative and marketable ideas.
• Trip to Las Vegas is ‘On, Wisconsin!’ YouTube contest prize Feb. 9, 2010 The winners of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's "On, Wisconsin!" YouTube contest will receive two travel packages to Las Vegas to attend the Badger football game against the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Saturday, Sept. 4.
• UW-Madison computer team gets honorable mention in world finals Feb. 8, 2010 A University of Wisconsin-Madison student computer team has earned an honorable mention at a world championship competition, held last week in Harbin, China.
• Student inventions featured in Innovation Days Feb. 8, 2010 Twenty-three inventions designed and built by 37 innovative students from across campus will be on display at the annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Innovation Days competitions, to be held Thursday and Friday, Feb. 11 and 12, at Engineering Hall.
• NACLO competition introduces students to computational linguistics Dec. 1, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer Sciences will host local high-school and middle-school participants in the 2010 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) open competition.
• Innovation comes full-circle in UW-Madison student seminar series Oct. 9, 2009 A decade ago, Chad Sorenson took his first steps toward becoming an inventor and entrepreneur by competing in and winning the Schoofs Prize for Creativity as a University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineering student.
• UW-Madison students perform at International Youth Poetry Slam Festival July 15, 2009 Thirteen UW-Madison students from the First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble will perform in the 12th Annual Brave New Voices (BNV) International Youth Poetry Slam today (July 15) in Chicago.
• Nutritious, mouse-eared waffle carries UW-Madison team to food contest finals May 27, 2009 It's a challenge that parents face every day: Make healthy food taste good so their kids will actually eat it. A University of Wisconsin-Madison food development team has done just that, and on Monday, June 8, they'll head to Disneyland to showcase their creation before a panel of industry judges.
• Recent sightings: Steel Bridge Team May 21, 2009 The UW-Madison Steel Bridge Team assembles its bridge entry during a timed practice in the foyer of the Engineering Centers Building on May 13, 2009.
• Thirty-plus medical inventions debut at undergraduate design competition April 30, 2009 On Friday, May 1, some 150 University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering students will showcase 34 novel devices that address myriad real-world medical challenges.
• UW-Madison engineering student picked for entrepreneurs' program April 20, 2009 Steven Skroch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student in biomedical engineering, is one of five students nationwide chosen to help inaugurate an international program in entrepreneurship by the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation.
• Students face off for seed capital in business-plan competition April 16, 2009 From high-tech flavored plastics and eco-friendly vending machines to micro-gifting services and medical devices for emerging countries, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are pursuing solutions to everyday problems as part of the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition at the Wisconsin School of Business.
• Contest: What does a new student need to know? April 10, 2009 UW-Madison is again asking students to write an essay about the things they've learned about life at the university.