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i-Teams competition at the Science Festival – Encouraging young innovators!
March 26th 2015 At last week’s Science Festival, tomorrow’s innovators had the opportunity to try out lab techniques with GSK, sound recognition with Audio Analytic, the Sureflap microchip catflap and the Light Blue Optics interactive projector. The i-Teams competition runs each year at the Institute for Manufacturing (www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk) and challenges the children to think of…
Congratulations to our £1k winners!
One of this year's i-Teams projects (from Michaelmas 2014) has been awarded a winner's prize in the annual CUE £1k competition. The "MOfs i-Teams" project team consisting of the inventors, Dr. David Fairen-Jimenez and T. Tian, along with three of the original i-Teams students, Andrew Marsden, Thomas Fry, Dr. Claudia Percivalle, describes their technology as…
i-Teams winners at the CUE £100 for 100 words competition!
Two i-Teams ideas and a past i-Teams inventor are among the winners of this year's Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £100 Challenge, successfully describing their ideas in only 100 words. The Michaelmas Term MOFs team has managed to win two separate prizes for two separate market applications of their technology. They are working with Dr. David Fairen-Jiminez of the…
i-Teams at the Science Festival – Novel ideas for new
Using moss to power fairy lights and allowing pigs to reach their food through a catflap were some of the bright ideas to use scientific inventions in the What would you use THAT for? competition. The competition was run at the Institute for Manufacturing during the Cambridge Science Festival as part of the i-Teams…
Congratulations to our £1k winners!
Past i-Teams projects have scooped three prizes in this year’s Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £1k competition and teams including i-Teams alumni won three more. Many many congratulations to all the winners!!!!! The successful i-Teams entries were: Camses (Giorgio Divitini & Caterina Ducati) We developed a catalyst based on TiO2, a standard industrial material, that can exploit…
Congratulations to Dr Sithamparanathan Sabesan on receiving a Royal Academy
Many congratulations to Dr. Sithamparanathan Sabesan for being awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowship! Dr. Sabesan worked with an i-Team in 2009, looking at possible applications for his long-range RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. Since then the technology has been further developed and trialled with customers to create a new goods and luggage…
i-Teams goes social (social sciences of course…)
The highly-regarded i-Teams programme, where teams of students investigate the commercial potential of real Cambridge inventions, is running two social science projects for the first time. This reflects a general shift in focus within the social sciences, as has already happened in the fields of science and engineering, towards looking at questions of impact. The…
Insights for Entrepreneurs
Our guest entrepreneur speaker in Michaelmas 2013 was venture investor Kelsey Lynn from Imperial Innovations. Originally an Engineer from Stanford with passion for working with people and building things, she has pursued a successful career as a venture capital investor, firstly at Firelake Capital in Silicon Valley, and more recently at Imperial Innovations in London. In California,…
i-Teams success in the CUE £100 for 100 words competition
i-Teams have scooped three prizes in this year's Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £100 for 100 words competition. Many congratulations to all the winners!!!!! Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Sam Chaudhary (ClassDojo), Andrew Thompson (Proteus Digital) and Stanley Yang (Neurosky) handed over the winning prizes as part of this year's Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge. The winning i-Teams entries were:…