The Conrad Challenge is proud to introduce the student teams who will participate in the 2019 Innovation Summit and compete for the competition’s top honor, being named a Pete Conrad Scholar.
Aerospace & Aviation
BOREAL
Australia
The Circ-suit is a resistance suit for astronauts that decreases the amount of time they’ll need to exercise in preparation for space travel.
ConvergenSeat
Colorado, USA
ConvergenSeat is a seat that allows astronauts and pilots to communicate more efficiently with their aircraft to decrease the cost of getting to space.
EnerX Systems
India
ENTHUSE (Engine Thrust Surge System) is a system that decreases the impact of weather on air traffic movement.
Recon
North Carolina, USA
The M.A.R.C.S. (Motion-Adaptive Radiation Control Suit) is a suit that comfortably protects astronauts from cosmic radiation.
The Alpacorn
Thailand
PlastPell is a cost-efficient alternative to synthetic jet propellant that recycles plastic waste.
Cyber-Technology & Security
ATJ Fire Prevention
California, USA
FlameVent is a kitchen fire safety system that detects dangerous temperatures and automatically emits a fire extinguishing spray.
Autovision Technologies
Virginia, USA
BACvision is a stand-alone apparatus that can be implemented within individual motor vehicles to accurately detect BAC and quantify the presence of other intoxicants to decrease deaths due to DUI.
Katang Labs
India
SkyAI is an intelligent drone-based security system that allows events of any size to be secured safely and efficiently through flexibility of use and automatic interventions.
M.I. Survive
Australia
Augmented Waters is an app that provides the public with accurate data warnings of underwater hazards to reduce the incidence of drowning and injury due to inland waterways.
Protective Eyez
Illinois, USA
Protective Eyez is a safety device that prevents sexual assault by sounding an alarm and alerting authorities.
Falcon StartUps
Winners of the 2019 Australian Conrad Challenge
The Pad Pay is an EFTPOS machine that incorporates the biometric security device of a fingerprint scanner to safeguard customer data.
Team Innovation
Winners of the 2019 Nigerian Conrad Challenge
The Piracy Tracker is a responsive web and mobile app designed to help curb digital piracy in Nigeria and Africa through the use of a proprietary algorithm to validate originality of content.
Energy & Environment
PineSightAI
Colorado, USA
Pine Sight is a machine-learning powered smartphone app for park rangers to improve ground-based surveillance of Mountain Bark Beetle infestations.
SAFE
New Hampshire, USA
S.A.F.E. (Sound: The Alternative Fire Extinguisher) is a device that utilizes low-frequency sound waves to extinguish wildfires.
Team Carbotrope
New York, USA
Ipsum XII is a solar-powered electric car that is lightweight, durable, aerodynamic, and energy-efficient.
Tech 5
Virginia, USA
FertiLess is a tractor attachment that detects and regulates fertilizer during distribution to prevent excess fertilizer from being used.
Trashless
Thailand
FastDrop is a trash bin that automatically separates trash to improve recycling.
Health & Nutrition
Apollo Neurotech
New Jersey, USA
TremorWear is a device‑independent tremor‑suppression library designed to add smart‑suppression features to wearable tremor orthosis.
CSL Technologies
North Carolina, USA
The CATTURE catheter is designed to prevent catheter-associated infections by preventing microorganisms from attaching to the surface of catheters through specially-designed micro wrinkles.
FabGeeks
South Korea
DropScope is an economical 3D printed microscope that requires just a single droplet of water to replicate the full function of a power microscope, which gives more students in developing countries access to basic science education.
Firebird MEI
Japan
eSecure is a compact epinephrine auto-injector encapsulated in a thermally insulated smartphone case.
HEAL Dyslexia
Helping Educate and Accelerate Learning for Dyslexic Students
Ohio, USA
MyDyslexiaAID is an application that helps dyslexic students recognize characters and words through multisensory/audiovisual feedback.
Smoke-Free World: India
Arogya Solutions
India
NEMACI is a low cost system that equips government clinics and dispensaries to provide lower-grade bidis to smokers based on their current addiction levels while simultaneously introducing smokers/farmers to alternative products.
Alternate Industry India
Colorado, USA
Bidi to Industry is a kit that contains the materials and knowledge needed for women to develop their own company.
Spicearettes
Colorado, USA
Spicearettes are safer, natural, and more affordable cigarette-like bidi alternatives that are composed of abundant Indian spices known to combat nicotine addiction.
Smoke-Free World: Malawi
LRK Labs
California, USA
Esprí is a cosmetic (makeup) that utilizes an innovative formula based on tobacco peptides to create a flawless, buildable full-coverage foundation for various skin tones.
Malawi Hurt 2 Health
Colorado, USA
Malawi Hurt 2 Health designed organic bandages made from tobacco products.
Taurus
Australia
Osiris is a sustainable and affordable windrower which, in tandem with the use of rapeseeds, aims to repurpose the land that was previously used for tobacco plantations.
Tobacco-cide
North Carolina, USA
Tobacco-cide is a natural pesticide generated from the tobacco plant that effectively targets certain harmful pests without wounding helpful insects.
Smoke-Free World: United States
CALTAB Solutions
Colorado, USA
The CALTAB pod and juice uses vaporized super leaves as a less addictive and healthy substitute to Juuls and e-cigarettes.
R.E.T. INNOVATE
Nigeria
The RET-Vape Selling Application helps the government better monitor and regulate the purchase of e-cigarettes by producing individualized data.
VapeMate
Nevada, USA
VapeMate is a mobile application that can track, quantify, substantiate, and prevent vaping through an attachment that fits right onto an e-cigarette and a mobile application that records, processes, and displays data on e-cigarette use for the user.
Transforming Education Through Technology
BEHAVR
Virginia, USA
BEHAVLearn is a virtual reality simulator that provides the perfect learning environment for each and every student through tracking brain waves with non-invasive electroencephalograms (EEGs).
Inoventive
Qatar
Info Mission is a customizable, multifunctional, adaptable A.I. device that analyzes the disability of its student users and develops along with them.
Princess Programming
Florida, USA
Princess Programming is a video game designed to help young girls learn programming.
Simulated Education
North Carolina, USA
EARL (Engaging and Augmented Reality Learning) Classrooms is a platform that houses Virtual and Augmented (Mixed) Reality simulations to enhance the learning experience.
SpeakEasy
Texas, USA
VoxLion is an application that allows students to better prepare for and deliver presentations by providing real-time, comprehensive feedback.
eCognito
**Unable to attend Summit
Singapore
eCognito is a cohesive online digital learning platform that enhances student learning engagement with emphasis on the "how" and "why" of the content.
SmartDesk Co
**Unable to attend Summit
New Jersey, USA
SmartDesk is an appliance that implements SmartBoard technology in students' desks to enable personalized education.