Koch Innovation Challenge is Saturday, Dec. 3 Koch Innovation Challenge is Saturday, Dec. 3

You are invited to the inaugural Koch Innovation Challenge starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, in the RSC Shirley Beggs Ballroom. This competition emphasizes teamwork and entrepreneurship across all fields and disciplines. A poster session with prototypes will be from 9 a.m.-noon in the ballroom, and a pitch competition with judges from WSU and local industry will be from 9 a.m.-noon, in 319 RSC. An awards ceremony will be held at 12:30 p.m. in the ballroom.

We sincerely hope you can come because students from your college/department are participating and/or because you have helped guide and encourage these students (and the instructors) this semester.

The Koch Innovation Challenge is organized from two courses: the new Introduction to Technology & Innovation freshman seminar general education course and Engineering 101 Introduction to Engineering course. Cross-disciplinary student team members are first-year freshman and transfer students from majors across campus, including four sport management majors, one pre-dance major, one chemistry major, and six LAS undecided majors.

Sample Big Idea Team Project Topics:
- Preventing deaths in cars with overheated interiors using the car's on-board diagnostics port
- Decreasing drunk driving with an improved test that will lock keys if test is positive
- Reducing CO2 emissions of lawn mowers using a chemical filter
- Increasing classroom focus of individuals with hyperactivity disorders

Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?5245 for more information.