We’re so happy with the entire college students that pitched final night time! NRLC 2023 was fiercer than ever and their months of arduous work shone by means of. We’d like to offer an enormous congrats to final night time’s winners!
1st Place – $50,000 and the Frank Liu Jr. Prize for Inventive Improvements in Music, Style, & the Arts – $2500
Goldie: Viviane M. Nguyen MBA ‘23, Stephanie Zhou MBA ‘23, and Samantha Wong MS/MBA ‘22
A denims match finder for ladies that makes use of your true measurements to match you with the right denims to your physique kind.
2nd Place – $25,000
Tierra Local weather: Emma Konet MBA ’24, Jacob Mansfield BA ’16
Speed up vitality storage deployment by unlocking and monetizing grid decarbonization providers.
third Place – $15,000
Separion: Yuren Feng PhD ‘24, Xiaochuan Huang PhD ‘23, Ze He PhD ‘23
An modern and environmentally pleasant extraction course of that makes use of brines already produced by geothermal vitality to provide lithium quicker, purer, and greener.
Viewers Alternative Award – $1500
Sygne Options: Bo Wang PhD ‘23, Subash Kannan MBA ‘24, Dana Vazquez MBA ‘24, Kimberly Heck
Ceaselessly eliminating “without end” chemical compounds by eliminating PFAS in water by means of their patent-pending know-how.
RISE@Rice: The Sen Social Pioneer Prize – $1000
The Mum or dad Instructor Collaborative: Jessica Religion Carter MBA ‘24
A college and group primarily based non-profit group that goals to enhance pupil outcomes by constructing sturdy collaborative partnerships between dad and mom and lecturers.
Frank Liu Jr. Prize for Inventive Improvements in Music, Style, & the Arts – $2500
RiseWorks: Jucheng Shen BS ‘26, Lai Peng BS ‘24, Yuan Chen BS ‘25, Kaiyuan Wu BS ‘23
An AI-driven music remedy that makes use of customized algorithms to determine every particular person’s distinctive psychological well being wants and supply customized music remedy classes that may assist with a wide range of psychological well being situations, resembling anxiousness, despair, and PTSD.
Excellent Undergraduate Award – $5000
Tidepay: Andrew Pitigoi BBA ‘26 and Devin Shah BBA ‘26 (UH)
An HR and payroll resolution for transport corporations that streamlines the onboarding course of and helps switch wages to their globally positioned workers’ financial institution accounts.
