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News Release 15-069
Red Rocks and Ivy Tech teams place first and second in NSF Community College Innovation Challenge
Teams developed innovative means to dispense disaster relief, detect contaminated water and more
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NSF's Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) engaged students in a variety of disciplines in impactful areas such as big data, infrastructure security, sustainability and broadening participation in STEM.
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NSF's Susan Singer (far left) with the first place Red Fox Team and its members (left to right): Keya Lea Horiuchi, Scott Hall, Nathan Tiedt, Kaia Chapman and Faculty Mentor Helena Martellaro.
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Ivy Tech's Betadataquantata placed second in the CCIC. NSF's Susan Singer (far left) is pictured here with team members (from left to right) James Kevin Campbell, Lyudmila Trokhina, Rose-Anna Platt, Joanne Cunningham, and Faulty Mentor George Twaddle.
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Innovation Boot Camp participants exhibited their projects at a reception on Capitol Hill, hosted by U.S. Representative David Price from North Carolina. Here he is with American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) President Walter E. Bumphus. Price co-authored a bill in 1993 to establish NSF's Advanced Technological Education program, which helps community colleges upgrade their training programs for jobs in high-tech fields.
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U.S. Representative Markwayne Mullen from Oklahoma talks with members of the FUE, "Food in Urban Environments," that created a small-scale replica of a rooftop vegetable garden to test weather conditions on food growth in urban environment. This is one of two projects from Tulsa Community College represented at the Innovation Boot Camp. The ohter is Tulsa CHAMP which designed a hands-on "living laboratory" to teach about the multi-disciplinary field of aquaponics and in doing so, to engage students in STEM.
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Wyoming Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis greets (left to right) Hannah Jernigan, Paige Jernigan and Hannah Shaferstudents from Snow College in Utah, and learns about their project that makes pigments to redirect and store solar energy.
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Members of Tulsa Community College's Tulsa Champ team Dallas Elleman (left) and Mark Harvey (right) talk to Rep. Chaka Fattah about aqauaponics and engaging kids in STEM.
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