Six students were named winners of the What’s Your Problem Pitch Competition sponsored by the Booth Library Center for Student Innovation.
The Pitch Competition invited underrepresented, undergraduate student teams to share ideas and technologies that will solve a specific problem. Each team pitched its idea of how to solve a problem that they identified and described using the resources that are currently available in or could be purchased for the library’s CSI.
The winners are:
All students were awarded scholarships, and additional funds are being used to purchase technology and materials to support their innovative ideas. Funding for the pitch competition was provided by the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund.
The Pitch Competition was coordinated by Zach Newell, dean of Library Services; Newton Key, professor emeritus of History and former director of the Faculty Development and Innovation Center; and Catherine Polydore, assistant dean of the Honors College, professor of Counseling and Higher Education, and former chair of the EIU Making Excellence Inclusive Committee.
“The judging team was amazed by the quality and creativity of the pitch competition entries,” Newell said. “Our students certainly know what hurdles and challenges our campus community is facing, and they have innovative ideas about how to solve them.”
The top three winning entries are now part of EIU’s institutional repository, The Keep, found at https://thekeep.eiu.edu/csi_pitch2021/.
Funding provided in whole or in part by the Education Stabilization Fund Program Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (CFDA No. 84.425C).
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