On Wednesday, November 20, our Tech Hub Student Project Grant finalists pitched their project ideas to a packed crowed with representatives from across the university. Presenters shared how their innovative uses for technology will solve timely and serious challenges facing our society today.
Audience members voted for their favorite pitches to receive funding, and the judges deliberated to determine the top picks and funding allocation. Congratulations to the following 2019 Tech Hub Student Project Grant winners.
Tech Hub is looking for students who have an idea to use technology in an innovative way. And we're giving away money for it! This year, we're giving away $15,000 total to a number of student projects. Apply today!
Here's the deal:
You must be a student at The Ohio State University (undergraduate or graduate). If you also work at Ohio State, you cannot use resources at work to complete your project. Newly extended deadline: You must apply on or before Wednesday, November 6 at midnight. You can request up to $5,000.* Your project should demonstrate...
Peter Hollander, 2016 student project grant awardee, is a creative who loves virtual reality (VR). He has been exploring VR since the start of his undergraduate career and with the help of the Tech Hub Student Developer Kit , Peter began the process of inventing a new method of VR locomotion. We had a chace to sit down and talk with Peter about his invention, Talaria VR , and the progress he's made since being awarded grant funding in 2016.
Video of Tech Hub Grants: Talaria VR Are you interested in applying for funding? Submit a...
The Ohio State University Physics PhD candidate Nic Scozzaro had a big idea: make physics instruction fun, fast and free for audiences around the globe. Along with his physicist partners Hiran Wijesinghe and Michael Darcy, Scozzaro has spent the past two years creating and testing an app that promises to do just that. A Tech Hub grant recipient for 2016, Physics is Beautiful is a web app that provides free physics instruction through engaging games and a completely online platform.
As a physics student and instructor at many levels throughout his academic career, Nic Scozzaro has seen...
November is a month to exercise your civic duty and vote. For president, congress, and our 2016 Student Project Grants.
Join us in store on Tuesday, November 15 from 6 – 7 p.m. for our annual Student Project Grants Pitch Night. Our student project grant finalists will pitch their ideas in ten minutes or less to the audience (you!). You will have time to ask questions and place your votes for your top three at the end of the event. These votes will help us decide the top three projects and how we split the pool of...
Do you have a great idea for a tech project? Whether you are looking to create a personal finance app, a fine art installation, or a technology product, we are looking to help you make your tech ideas a reality. This fall we have a total pool of up to $10,000 to award to three student projects that use technology in novel ways.
The rules are simple enough;
You must be a student at The Ohio State University. You can request up to $5,000.* Your project should demonstrate a connection to innovative uses of technology. You, or a...
After tallying the student votes from the live pitch event and our committee scores, we have selected the winners of our spring 2016 student project development grants.
Polina Brodsky – RoboZoo
The goal of RoboZoo is to introduce middle school students to programming, engineering and teamwork through a hackathon in which they design and build robotic animals. They will do this by holding a 2 day make-a-thon for middle school students, where they will build a robot petting zoo. Students will be introduced to programming in Scratch with a sample project. Then in groups of...