Competition will take place March 31, 2022, 2:30 PM at the Georgia Cyber Center.
The competition aims to engage through discovery and innovation for the benefit of our communities. We encourage students and faculty to develop interdisciplinary student groups from a range of disciplines for this competition. Together, we can foster creativity and remarkable innovation at Augusta University and offer incredible real-world solutions. A judging panel to choose the winners from the final pitch competition will review the concept summaries and fill out an award criteria evaluation rubric. Evaluation of the submitted entries will be completed by close of presentation event.
Timothy Williams Sr., PhD, -Founder of Organization Transformation Group, LLC
Eric Toler - Executive Director, Georgia Cyber Center
Christopher McKinney - Associate Vice President, Innovation Commercialization, Augusta University
Kelsey Shull, MHA, CTRS - Innovation Specialist, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center
“I found the skills we learn are applicable across many other areas. It was amazing to see how the same problems could be solved many different ways with innovative ideas.”
-Aaron Cummings, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Student 2022
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Grateful to the following for all their support!
CENTER FOR INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATION
GEORGIA CYBER CENTER
LEONARD 'PORKCHOP' ZIMMERMAN
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BEN CHESTNUT
JANUARY 21, 2022
FEATURE SPEAKER BEN CHESTNUT
Georgia Cyber Center
10:00-11:00 AM
Ben Chestnut is co-founder and CEO of Mailchimp.
GREG THOMAS
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Design Thinking Skills
UNIVERSITY HALL ROOM 170
Director of User Experience Design at TaxSlayer.com.
RACHEL BAKER
MARCH 8, 2022
How To Wow Your Audience
UNIVERSITY HALL ROOM 170
Brand Lead at Wier Stewart in Augusta, Georgia.
PITCH COMPETITION!
MARCH 31, 2022
TIME: 2:30-4:30 PM
5 MINUTES IN FRONT OF OUR PANEL OF JUDGES
Reusable Masks
3D-printed molds and create at least 500 reusable face masks for AU Health to make sure members of its clinical staff always have the protective equipment they need to combat COVID-19...
Happy Hands Device
"Three Summerville Campus departments are working together to design a hand sanitation add-on element called Happy Hands that uses positive reinforcement to encourage good hand hygiene at Augusta University."
JagVenture Winners
Students Anish Sangari and Nitish Sood pitched the idea for their invention of a smart tray that assist patients with medication adherence utilizing Wi-Fi, weighted sensors to ensure accurate and safe dosage.
Green Solutions in Manufacturing
A student and faculty pair from Augusta University’s College of Science and Mathematics is finding success with their research on a “greener” method to produce consumer goods.
Scott Thorp, MFA
(706) 729-2422
Vahé Heboyan, PhD
(706) 721-5771
Lynsey Steinberg, MSMI, CMI
(706) 721-1413