Past Collegiate Inventors Competition Winners
Learn about the student inventors who have excelled in the Collegiate Inventors Competition®. You can search our past competition winners by name, year or university.
CropDoc
Pests and crop diseases kill 20 percent of all crops before harvest, causing an annual $990 billion loss in farm income. No current technology can identify specific diseases on farms. Using advanced optics and novel processing techniques, CropDoc provides farmers with actionable insights regarding the location and projected progression of pests and specific crop diseases weeks before visual symptoms manifest.
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Abigail Kohler
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Jack Roswell
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Eli Silvert
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Alex Zhuk
Cryoablation
Breast cancer rates are rising in low- and middle-income countries, but access to treatment is not. Standard procedures such as lumpectomies or mastectomies are impractical because they require general anesthesia, are expensive, and have lengthy recovery times. With cryoablation, carbon dioxide gas freezes a probe that kills tumor cells, and insertion of this probe requires only local anesthesia, greatly reducing the cost and time of recovery. This treatment is a promising option for women in desperate need.
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Clarisse Hu
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Sarah Lee
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Bailey Surtees
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Serena Thomas
dAST
The unchecked use of antibiotics has threatened the efficacy of these life-saving drugs. The goal of this invention is to enable doctors to make more effective prescriptions where treatment happens: the doctor’s office. This test only requires 30 minutes to determine if an infection can be successfully treated with an antibiotic, while traditional methods require multiple days. Having this knowledge improves patient outcomes, and enables the preservation of these drugs by avoiding over-prescribing.
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Travis S. Schlappi
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Nathan G. Schoepp
Development of a PCB Bioremediation Process Based on Chemicals Contained in Spearmint
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Eric Gilbert
Dol-Fin (High Aspect Ratio Diving Fin)
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