2022 VIRTUAL FINALS SHOWCASE Finalists
drumroll please… we are proud introduce the student teams who will compete in the Virtual Finals Showcase of the 2021-2022 conrad challenge.
The below teams received the highest scores from the judges within their categories in Round 2: The Business Plan. For the first time ever, ten teams in each category have been named Finalists. As a result, they will participate in the Virtual Finals Showcase. Click here to view the Finalists participating in the 2022 Innovation Summit.
Congratulations to our Finalists and all Conrad Innovators! You never cease to amaze us!
Finalist teams (specifically Team Member 1) will direct communication from the Conrad team (either phone call or virtual meeting) by Friday, March 4 inviting them to one of these Round 3 events.
Aerospace & Aviation
Aeromos
Oregon, Massachusetts & New York, USA; South Korea
Faith Bible Christian School, Korea International School, Berkshire School, North London Collegiate School, Emma Willard School
Hojun Lee, Donghoon Lee, Min Seok Lee, Jeong gyoun Song, Jeewoo Kim
Aeromos is using 3D printing technology and organic (polymer) aerogel to build insulation for housing on Mars. The insulation mixes materials polyethylene and boron nitride and mechanical property to prevent space radiation and ensure humans a more permanent presence in space.
Self-Healing Polymeric Insulators for Electric Wires
Illinois, USA
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Elaina Xiao, Nathaniel Gao
In tribute to Apollo 1, the Self-Healing Polymeric Insulators for Electrical Wires team develops and commercializes self-healing polymeric insulators for electrical wires. So, if the insulator is damaged, the chemicals in the insulator have a polymeric reaction that repairs the damages and prevents tragedies.
SSLAIT (Solar System Location and Interplanetary Telecommunication)
Germany & United Kingdom
St. Albans School, Sandringham School, State International School Seeheim (SISS)
Max Amos, Harry Nsubuga, Jayden Jabaru, Aarav Garg, Roham Sarabi
SSLAIT (Solar System Location And Interplanetary Telecommunication) provides a fast interplanetary communication and accurate location network for spacecraft. It enables communities based on planets and moons to encrypt communication with spacecraft and other colonies in an efficient, effective and reliable manner.
Terrabit
South Korea
CityHill Academy, Valor International Scholars, Wellesley High School, Seoul Foreign School, St. Paul Preparatory Seoul
Inae Kim, Youngchan Lee, Daniel Park, Yujin Suh, Kiyoon Nam
Terrabit is a construction vehicle designed to help colonize Mars. Instead of bringing construction materials from the earth, Terrabit collects sulfur, sand and gravel on Mars with minimum energy. Like the Mars Rover, it will travel the surface and start construction at the most suitable location.
Tune
North Carolina, USA
Apex High School
Owen Chitester, Arnav Nanda
Tune is auto-focusing glasses to be used by astronauts and space travelers during spaceflight to address spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome and sudden vision changes throughout their experience in space as a result of shifting cranial fluid.
Cyber-Technology & Security, presented by dell technologies
2nd Choice Team Name
Georgia, USA
The Westminster Schools
David Cho, Ryan Elchahal
The Sleepy Driver Detector is an apple watch application that works to prevent roadside deaths at a macro scale by keeping drivers fully awake and aware while driving. This functionality is fulfilled through three separate sub-sections of our device: the usage of a physical camera device to detect drowsiness, an evaluation of vitals, and a notification to the driver.
Anya Ghosh
India
Loreto House
Anya Ghosh, Pari Gupta
Travel 360° is an app that provides all the travel-related amenities on a single platform, including all the various aspects of travel, including transportation, accommodation, and entertainment.
Audax
Michigan, USA
Novi High School
Anirudh Annavarapu, Jonathan Doredla, Arnav Patri, Shashank Chidige
Audax is the comprehensive solution to one of the biggest growing modern inconveniences: the property system. With the property registry system being outdated, Audax helps verify the property, fights title fraud and accelerates the property deed process.
Diverge
California, New York & Massachusetts, USA
Jericho Senior High School, Roxbury Latin, Del Norte High School
Kevin Zhu, Kevin Wang, Ellen Xu
Diverge is a personalized health care tool that can detect when a user is approaching or experiencing a manic state through a live sharing of motor activity and EEG data. This product empowers patients to take control of their mental health.
Edu-Vision
Washington, USA
Charles Wright Academy
Yuyang Lou, Tiancheng Chu, Yixuan Yang
Edu-Vision analyzes users' interest by directly tracking eye movement in an online application as a solution to teenagers who are unsure of their favorite area of interests and helps them explore those interests.
Electralert
Virginia, USA
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Tanish Jain, Tanmai Kalisipudi
Electralert is a driver alert system that helps combat driver fatigue and inattention with a pair of smart eyeglasses built with cutting-edge brain-sensing technology and integrated with the vehicle’s driver assistance system.
Lumino.net
Canada
Merivale High School, John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute
Justin Oh, Jiwon Son, Jiani Li, Aidan Cui
Lumino.net aims to relieve traffic congestion and better protect the safety of drivers and pedestrians with AITOS (AI-based intelligent traffic optimization system) and AINS (AI-based intelligent navigation system).
Energy & environment
AgriVision
California & Virginia, USA
Polytechnic School, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Sabrina Zhang, Anthony Zhao, Ethan Zhang, Winston Gan
Agrivision’s flagship product is a fully-autonomous robot designed for on-site crop disease detection and diagnosis. This product will reduce food waste via stellar plant health analysis and thereafter alleviate food waste’s contributions to climate change and by extension world hunger.
ECap
Texas, USA
Uplift North Hills Preparatory
Abdullah Hussain, Abdullah Habib
ECap is a powerful capacitor system that provides auxiliary charge to electric vehicles (EV) in addition to their existing lithium batteries. It is comprised of a capacitor charger that the driver can attach to his/her vehicle and fungible capacitors. The system increases the range of the vehicle and is a convenience for travelers in remote areas where access to charging stations is limited.
METHANE CH4NGE
Virginia, USA
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Samanvitha Dammalapati, Saloni Shah, Yashna Hasija
METHANE CH4NGE reduces methane emissions from wetlands and bodies of water. This product accomplishes this by the filtration of methane emissions underwater for Government, Agricultural Areas, and Retailers.
Rise the pRICE
Thailand
Kamnoetvidya Science Academy
Charlita Sinmak, Kittapas Kitsanadecha, Patchanan Onchomchan
Rice Husk Supercapacitor is produced to benefit electric vehicles. The product can be charged relatively fast and has a longer lifetime since its method of collecting energy is static and no wearing down of electrodes.
SeaClean
Massachusetts & California, USA; South Africa
Middlesex School, Mission San Jose High School, St John’s College
Andrew Cao, Fuyi Yang, Yu Tang Shan
SeaClean is a marine pollution mitigation station that targets plastics. It is powered by a hybrid renewable energy platform that utilizes wind, solar and tidal power. SeaClean is highly configurable due to its modularized design.
Health & Nutrition
Bat Eyes
India
Inventure Academy
Surya Turaga, Joe Alapat
Bat Eyes is a hand-strapped device that uses a LIDAR sensor to help the visually impaired navigate their spaces. The LIDAR sensor increases their ‘bubble of awareness’, providing more accurate descriptions of the user's surroundings.
DATUM
South Korea
Seoul International School, Winchester College
Sungji (Lindsey) Lim, Sungyeon (Paul) Lim
DATUM - Diagnosis And Treatment Utilizing Music is a website program that uses artificial intelligence to help diagnose the patient quicker and more accurately than other assessments and heal the patient of their mental disorder.
iCane
Illinois, USA
Illinois Math and Science Academy
Umika Arora, Rian Carter
iCane is a culmination of technology and a common medical device that works to ensure the safety and security of its users. iCane consists of the following major components: a flashlight, SOS button and location tracking.
SOS280
Virginia, USA
Rockridge High School, Stonehill Middle School
Abhinav N Potineni, Cheluvi Siri Potineni
SOS280 is a mobile app that provides intervention at the Initiation & Experimentation phase of substance abuse. It uses the Natural Language Processing Machine Learning model which allows for real-time monitoring and detecting of substance abuse based on social media posts.
Vivascribe
California, USA
Milpitas High School, Del Norte High School, Simi Valley High School, Los Altos High School, Mission San Jose High School
Neeral Bhalgat, Rachel Wei, Kevin Sebastian, Cedric Chan, Ethan Yuan
Vivascribe is a journaling app designed to help older generations better connect and share memories with their family to combat feelings of social isolation. It helps guide older generations through the process of eternalizing their most important memories with custom prompts and then sharing their journals with their family members.
VORA: Visual Object Recognition Aid
California, USA
Sage Hill School, Woodbridge High School
Melody Yu, Katherine Hua
The VORA app assists the visually impaired by recognizing objects in front of the phone camera and speaking out the object locations to help the users get a better understanding of their environment.
FSFW: Re-purposed Farmlands & alternative uses of Tobacco (and its by-products)
BIOCON
Nigeria
Dansol High School
Omobolanle Sadela, Oluwatomisin Coker, Olaoluwa Oluwashade, Oluwatumininu Daada
The TTOB-converter is designed to convert tobacco into multiple energy sources which will allow the increase in the cultivation of tobacco and divert its use from the smoking industry which is the leading cause of premature death. The converter processes tobacco into byproducts that can be used to make fertilizers for farmers, hair cream treatments, and anti-aging treatments.
Project: Fraction-1
Colorado, USA
Peak to Peak Charter School
Sydney Lewis, Emma Casini, Alden Sanders
Fraction-1 Vitamins are supplements containing protein that are targeted towards assisting malnourishment within famine areas in Africa. Simultaneously, this product will help redirect the use of tobacco in addictive and abusable products.
Safftory
Thailand
Kamnoetvidya Science Academy
Theeradon Sakpetch, Supphanat Anantachaisophon, Naphat Panniam, Khanut Boonjong, Phandej Soisamuth
SAFFAS is an innovative active composite possessing antimicrobial and antioxidant properties designed to transform the food packaging industries as well as agricultural industries. The product helps prolong the shelf-life of food, fresh produces, and meat by the gradual release of volatile organic compounds extracted from safflower’s components.
Tobelli
Illinois, USA
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Rashmi Alawani, Shria Halkoda
Tobelli is a biodegradable food packaging innovation that repurposes the cellulose found in tobacco to create a thin, food packaging film that not only aids in the storage of food but also its preservation. The product is a bioplastic material that wraps and covers food, thereby diffusing its preservative chemicals onto the product and increasing its shelf life.
TOB-FILTER
Thailand
Saengthong Vitthaya School
Waradon Sayaputra, Chanwit Chaimano, Warit Kaewjinda, Khawkla Pongsaha, Kritsanapat Kaewloi
TOB-FILTER is an environmentally friendly air filter innovation utilizing tobacco fibers. The product uses Silver Nano that can inhibit the growth of bacteria when placed on one side of the air filter to trap the bacteria from entering inside. It also uses Gold Nano that can change carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide.
China ambassador challenge winners
Instant Flight
China
Nansha College Preparatory Academy
Jing Liu, Yunfan Zeng, Lichuan Qiu
Instant Flight has created the eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) small commercial aircraft, JK-03 to create a fast and comfortable method to travel in the Aerospace and Aviation Category. JK-03 provides a highly efficient, comfortable and quiet travels while fulfilling airworthiness requirements. It is safe and reliable, bringing users a new zero-emission air travel.
Bluetooth
Singapore, China
Temasek Junior College, Suzhou High School of Jiangsu Province, Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy
Zhiyi Gui, Mingyang Jiang, Yixuan Zhao
Bluetooth is an online platform to schedule dental appointments, track profiles, communicate with others, and educate users about dental care in the Cyber-Technology and Security Category. This product also includes a forum for users to communicate directly with their dentists and ask questions about dental assistance.
RayDan
China
Shanghai American School
Tianzhi Xu, Ray Sun
Mechanical Worm is a small, soft-bodied, multipurpose exploration robot that mimics real-life worms to explore caves, pipes and ventilation systems to reduce the risk of rescue missions and promote a safe alternative to explore these hard to reach areas in the Cyber-Technology and Security Category.
Wind Runner
China
Beijing 101 Middle School International Department
Yuanchenxi Gao, Zihan Guo, Beila Wen, Manlin Zhang
Wind Runner designed an intelligent wind-resistant road sign that is able to change the direction of the separated panels of the sign board according to the direction and the speed of the wind detected using a sensor in the Energy and Environment Category. The product is powered by solar panels, making it environment-friendly and clean.
FastY
China
The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, Beijing No.2 Middle School International Department
Tianyi Huang, Bo Li
FastY’s product FY004 is creatively designed to target HER2 and CD3 on single-chain Fv, so it can serve as a bridge connecting HER2 positive tumor cells and T cells, and promote the anti-tumor activity of the T cells in the Health and Nutrition Category.
Hypnos
China
Shanghai High School International Division
Justin He, Edwards Tong, Jixiang Dou, Xi Wen Zhang
Hypnos was created to ease the drowsiness and impaired cognition caused by sleep inertia through a wearable headband that utilizes 810-nm near infrared (NIR) photobiomodulation to boost cellular metabolism and increase blood flow in the Health and Nutrition Category.
Floating Firmament
China
Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy, Ngee Ann Secondary School
Zhixiang Xu, Yicen Zhang, Tianyi Ding, Qiuyi Luo
Floating Firmament’s a pair of kayaks that enable crew members to manually deal with unexpected situations in the Energy and Environment Category. This product is driven by electricity so that the leaked oil would not be ignited due to the combustion of diesel within conventional kayaks and reduce the chance of causing vibrations at the sea surface and dispersing oil into the ocean.
Dell nonpareil winner
Armed with Knowledge
Texas, USA
NonPareil Institute
Brent Thompson, Wyatt Behrend, Zachary Putnam
Armed with Knowledge is a 2D action platformer game that teaches players about ransomware through metaphorical examples and demonstrates strategies to avoid malicious attacks in the Cyber-Technology and Security Category. With an unlimited chance to play the game, players will be fully educated on how to avoid ransomware.