KATU Innovation Challenge Finalists
85 Middle And High School Teams from across Oregon and SW Washington participated in the KATU Innovation Challenge from March 1st through May 6th of 2021.
Student teams had access to a toolkit for innovation including coaching sessions offered by Construct and industry advisors.
All teams designed, prototyped, and submitted their solution ideas— focused on creating a “Cleaner, Greener, Healthier Planet.”
BELOW ARE THE PITCHES FROM THE 10 FINALIST TEAMS
Winners will be announced on KATU AM Northwest May 14th, 9:00 - 10:00am… so be sure to tune in!
Middle School Finalists
Eco-Minions!
See the pitch video here.
Stoller Middle School
Navya Dharshan, Shreya Rudhrakumar, Sreeprada Konduru
Concept: It’s a sensor-enabled real-time contamination detection hydro kit to address contamination in water as well as the wasting of water due to leaks.
Team Mountain View
See the pitch video here.
Mountain View Middle School
Kuenzie Blubough, Adeya Alteneder
Concept: TMV created a program for creating art kits from recycled plastics for young people in the community.
YoungMinds
See the pitch video here.
Stoller Middle School
Anusha Jeyakumar, Sahana Muthaiya, Harshitha Rakesh, Nivedha Sathish Kumar
Concept: It’s a neighborhood delivery pooling system to address the problem of carbon emissions from transportation trucks in neighborhoods.
Team IDS
See the pitch video here.
Stoller Middle School
Akash Pai, Sohan Govindaraju
Concept: It’s a modular, innovative, sustainable, low-cost smart rooftop solution to address the problem of stormwater management.
Sid & Arjun
See the pitch video here.
Meadow Park Middle School
Siddharth D’costa, Arjun Malpani
Concept: It’s a process involving microbial degradation of polyester to address the ever-growing problem of plastic pollution, specifically related to the textile industry.
High School Finalists
Eco-lution
See the pitch video here.
Westview HS & Jesuit HS
Bhavika Buddi, Anvitha Mahankali
Concept: It’s a localized delivery system to address the emissions from the “last mile” of deliveries.
Fortuna
See the pitch video here.
Westview HS & Sunset HS
Michael Xu, Arnold Yang, Peter Wang, Mirja Rebaum
Concept: It’s a solar energy storage method built to address the problem of intermittency with renewable energy and increase access to clean energy.
Mount Fridge
See the pitch video here.
Glencoe High School
Ishaan Sinha
Concept: It’s a fridge management system to reduce food waste at the consumer level.
Environmental Helper
See the pitch video here.
Jesuit High School
Samyak Shrimali
Concept: It’s a low-cost smart composting bin with an accompanying app to address the problem of low composting rates & impact of food waste in landfills.
MacroVision
See the pitch video here.
Liberty High School
Jessica Clift
Concept: It is a tool for extracting macroplastics from wet sand to address the problem of plastic pollution on beaches.