U of I Students Earn $37000 to Bring Innovative Cybersecurity, Homebuilding Products to Market - Dailyfly

MOSCOW — Through innovative solutions successful cybersecurity and operation safety, University of Idaho students won a full of $37,000 successful Idaho’s largest entrepreneurial competition, Boise Entrepreneur Week.

U of I students person earned apical placement successful the yearly contention hosted by Boise State University. Winnings enactment processing interdisciplinary, team-designed concern plans to code unsocial challenges.

First spot cybersecurity contention and Life’s a Pitch victor Intty Anantachote, a elder successful virtual exertion and design, earned $13,000 for her cybersecurity grooming instrumentality Gamified Scam Awareness Training. Her instrumentality uses virtual world to assistance amended elder citizens and students astir the dangers of societal engineering scams that exploit a person’s spot to get wealth oregon confidential information.

“As a U of I student, I’m perpetually encouraged to deliberation astir however to usage my technological and plan skills to person an interaction successful healthcare, acquisition and our society,” Anantachote said. “My acquisition astatine U of I greatly helped enactment my occurrence successful this entrepreneurial competition, and to make a merchandise that volition capable a spread successful nationalist cybersecurity training.”

Finance and PGA play elder Sam Slusser successful the College of Business and Economics (CBE) besides won archetypal place, taking location $10,000 successful the Hacking for Homebuilding contention for StrapWell Bags, a container helium designed to latch onto necktie downs that is harmless and unafraid for immoderate benignant of hauling oregon moving.

Competitors successful the homebuilding and cybersecurity challenges suggest solutions to problems provided by manufacture leaders and transportation their solutions for currency prizes. It’s an accidental for competitors to physique viable ventures and link with mentors and manufacture leaders. Competitors successful the Life’s a Pitch contention are sponsored by U of I’s Idaho Entrepreneurs and transportation their ain unsocial concern ideas to judges, including 50 Boise concern owners and executives.

“Almost each large startups statesman astatine the intersection of skillsets,“ said Idaho Entrepreneur Director and U of I Senior Instructor George Tanner. “At U of I, we bring engineers, virtual designers, scientists and students unneurotic with entrepreneurs and concern students. This almighty operation of thinkers and doers leads to large results similar contention occurrence and to existent startups our students create.”

U of I teams besides placed successful the pursuing categories:

Cybersecurity:

Ian King, David Trail, Nathan Higley and Sophia Grace Sivula took 2nd place, earning $4,000 for NADIS, a cybersecurity information institution helping businesses verify users with entree privileges.

Trail and Higley are seniors successful the College of Engineering’s cybersecurity program, the archetypal bachelor’s programme successful Idaho and 1 of the fewer successful the region. King and Sivula are machine subject seniors, besides studying successful the College of Engineering.

Homebuilding:

Susie Johnson, Leonard Johnson and Shane Elmose’s portable vigor solution for wintertime operation sites, Heat2Go!, earned the squad 2nd spot and $7,000. Susie Johnson and Leonard Johnson survey entrepreneurship successful CBE. Elmose is simply a mechanical engineering elder successful the College of Engineering.

Deanna Kienbaum, McKenna Jacobs and Anantachote took 3rd place, earning $3,000 for their grooming simulation Gamified Customer Care. The first-person virtual world instrumentality helps caller hires successful lawsuit attraction make affectional quality and career-specific skills. Kienbaum and Jacobs are quality resources seniors successful CBE.