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Thursday, June 24 2010 Creo Quality presents The Catalyst In this Issue
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Life Sciences In & Around Indiana
June 15, 2010 was our "Morgan County Big Ideas Competition" deadline for BIG IDEAS. This year we received 25 "Big Ideas" from people of ALL ages within the Morgan County community and we've completed all of the video interviews from all applicants. This week a panel of judges will review the video submissions based on sustainability, scalability, and reproducibility. The winners of the competition will be announced at our Big Ideas Awards Ceremony on July 10th. We've raised $2100 for the Morgan County Big Ideas Fund, but our goal is $10,000 and remember that your contributions are tax deductible! All donations can be made to: Community Foundation of Morgan County Every engineering student at Purdue spends part or all of their final year working on a real-world project to fulfill their Senior Design requirement. At the end of the semester, each engineering department holds a competition to determine which idea is the ‘best in show.’ In 2009, the winner of Mechanical Engineering Senior Design’s highest honor, the Thomas J. and Sandra H. Malott Innovation Award, was a group called ‘Leg Up Design.’ Consisting of five students, the group designed and built a customized prosthetic leg for a Martinsville boy born with Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency (PFFD) with the help of Kevin Hagemeier from Action Brace and Prosthetic. FInd out what the Leg Up Design team designed and how CQ is helping them get their product to market. 
The i6 Challenge is a new $12 million innovation competition administered by the Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF). EDA will award up to $1 million to each of six winning teams with the most innovative ideas to drive technology commercialization and entrepreneurship in their regions. NIH and NSF will award a total of up to $6 million in supplemental funding to their SBIR grantees that are associated or partnered with the winning teams. We encourage entrepreneurs, investors, universities, foundations, and non-profits to participate in the i6 Challenge. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: July 15, 2010 Interested in applying and learning more? Click here. |
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