Meet the 2014 Open Minds Teams

Open Minds is NCIIA’s exhibition of cutting-edge innovation from our best student teams. Seventeen teams will be at the Tech Museum in San Jose on 3/22 to demonstrate their products, showcase their ventures and practice their pitches to conference attendees, VIPs and guests. But before that happens, you get to pick your favorite team via our video competition.

About the Video Competition

Started in 2010, the Open Minds video competition allows teams to spread the word about their innovations to a wide range of audiences leading up to and beyond the Open Minds exhibition. Our distinguished PANEL OF JUDGES have selected the top SIX Open Minds videos based on originality, creativity and pitch delivery. Now it’s up to YOU to vote for your favorite.  The team who receives the most votes will win a $1,500 cash prize. Click on a team box below to learn about each team and innovation, watch all the team videos and vote for your favorite finalist.

Competition Entries

Awair: Wyshbone

AWAIR: Wyshbone

Stanford University

Betaversity

Betaversity

NCSU/ UC-Davis/ Wash U St. Louis

Video
Finalist

Challtech

ChallTech

Lehigh University

CheckMate

CheckMate

University of Wisconsin at Madison

Video
Finalist

Disease Diagnostic Group

Disease Diagnostic Group

Case Western Reserve University

Competition Winner

HMSolution

HMSolution

Brown University

Video
Finalist

Hole Patch

Hole Patch

Case Western Reserve University

Hummingbill

Hummingbill

Rochester Institute of Technology

Innoblative Designs

Innoblative Designs

Northwestern University

JustMilk

JustMilk

University of California at Berkeley

Video
Finalist

Kohana

Kohana

Johns Hopkins University

MegaMatter

MegaMatter

California Polytechnic State University

PEURegen

PEURegen

Vanderbilt University

Rehabtics

Rehabtics

Johns Hopkins University

reNature

reNature, Inc.

Arizona State University

Video
Finalist

Sinode

SiNode Systems

Northwestern University

InvenTeam

Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam

Henry M. Gunn High School