Team Name: Robot iPhone Video Car
Term: – Winter 2016
Elevator Pitch: – A remote control car that carries an iPhone and you control from another iPhone so you can have a sort of “virtual presence” in parties or around a table.  Part of the first ever Big Show with UMSI.
Notable Achievements:
– Drove it in class (see video on screen)

Team Name: Exquisite Studio Ear Buds
Term: – Winter 2023
Elevator Pitch: – Almost did not get approved due to the incredibly ambitious nature of the project to design new earbuds with special base driver.  Even when he showed me the team of engineers he had gathered I was not convinced.  Then he said his uncle owned an audio equipment fabrication facility in China… and the next thing you know I had a prototype!  : )
Key Founder(s): – Hanlong Liu

Team Name: Husto
Term: – 2018. (student in Winter, launched this project in Fall)
Elevator Pitch: – An ambitious project that he floated in class and then worked on afterward.  I mentored and connected where I could, but he quickly grew the idea to MVP.  It was a software platform/app that would disrupt the existing “cheap travel site/room aggregator” model.  Very insightful, did coding offshore. I think it went live but did not survive the cutthroat competition from the big sites.
Key Founder(s): – Kevin Moreno

Team Name: Sanguis Diagnostics
Term: – Winter 2017
Elevator Pitch: – Having worked in a lab that was developing technology to test blood clotting factors with magnetism, and had developed a test cartridge. He assembled a team in class to build the actual reader for the cartridge.  This technology was radically cheaper and faster than the existing clotting test that was used tens of thousands of times a day in hospitals.  It was revolutionary!
Key Founder(s): – David Peyer
Notable Achievements:
– Several media articles.  Then some drama with the lab and PI’s over working independently.  A tough lesson in academic politics.

Team Name: Audi Know
Term: – Fall 2014
Elevator Pitch: – An app and website that monitors/scans public police scanner broadcasts in the vicinity of the client, detecting any mention of addresses of concern.  For example a Frat President can sign up his Frat address to know if police are being dispatched on a noise complaint and gain precious minutes to “get ahead of the problem”.  Possibly even preventing a problem.  Demonstrated a working model. 
Key Founder(s): – Jaiden Schraut, Robert Perry
Notable Achievements:
– One of the funniest pitch videos in class history.  A party gets a warning, goes dark and the police show up to a quiet street.  Hilarious, and killed at CPGO competition.

Team Name: Wave RF
Term: – Fall 2023
Elevator Pitch: – Small device using RF spectrum to link phones when cell towers are too far or overloaded
Key Founder(s): – Eric Andrechek
Notable Achievements:
– 1st test Fall 2023
– Multiple prototypes and phone app
– Company formed, patent pending
– Ideal for remote area rescue
– Mesh capable — friend groups can be spread out for miles

Team Name: Lidar Helmet
Term: – Winter 2019
Elevator Pitch: – LIDAR based device for the blind. The device would use LIDAR technology to determine where objects within the vicinity of the user are located. The LIDAR device would then relay this information back to the user through a haptic headset device. The headset device would have a number of sensors attached to the headset that would vibrate in the general direction of the object. The headset would go on the user’s forehead and would be powered by a battery. The LIDAR device would be placed on the headset and would rotate on an axis to make sure that it is getting a 180 degree view for the user. The device would allow a person with limited vision to be able to judge where objects are and avoid them. The device would not replace the traditional cane but rather act as a supplement with the ability to be used without the cane in close quarters
Key Founder(s): – Derek Joslin, Albert Anwar
Notable Achievements:
– Demonstrated at Big Show, built out their wiring harness at Make-A-Thon

Team Name: Doctor Frets
Term: – Winter 2019
Elevator Pitch: – A computerized guitar trainer that sits underneath the frets and teaches finger placement, extremely clever.   Gotta love the name!!
Key Founder(s): – Alex Rodriguez and Jordan Jacobson
Notable Achievements:
– working prototype