by Schurz Communications | Mar 15, 2017 | Innovation Prize, Investment News, News
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Float, a software startup that provides ticket insurance for events using a peer-to-peer matching platform, took top honors and a cash prize of $5,000 at the Notre Dame Schurz Innovation Challenge final event, held Wednesday (March 1) at Innovation...
by Schurz Communications | Dec 12, 2016 | Innovation Prize, Investment News, News
(Reposted with permission. Article written and provided by Curtis Slyder) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Hydro Grow LLC, which is working on a refrigerator-sized automated device to grow vegetables in consumers’ homes, took top honors and $5,000 at the Schurz...
by Schurz Communications | Mar 16, 2016 | Innovation Prize, Investment News, News
FINAL EVENT: FEBRUARY 17, 2016 PRESS RELEASE Successfully transforming a new idea for a mobile app into a working prototype doesn’t require moving to Silicon Valley. It does demand, however, collaboration and teamwork between the idea creators and local...
by Schurz Communications | May 2, 2014 | Digital, Innovation Prize, Investment News, News
Shopping and tracking technology were all the rage at the spring 2014 edition of the Purdue University Innovation Prize on May 29th. The competition sponsored by Schurz Communications and Purdue University’s entrepreneurial hub The Foundry was held in the Lawson...
by Schurz Communications | Apr 29, 2014 | Awards, Innovation Prize, News
SOUTH BEND — An app that allows city buses and public school buses to be tracked and tagged by riders in real time won the top prize Monday in the Notre Dame-Schurz Prize competition for innovation. App developer Sean Fitzgerald, a Notre Dame junior from Concord,...
by Schurz Communications | Dec 4, 2013 | Awards, Digital, Innovation Prize, Investment News, News
While Merriam and Webster define an “impulse” as a “sudden strong desire to do something”, but at the 2013 Schurz Communications and Purdue University Innovation prize on Tuesday night, Impulse wasn’t simply a strong desire, it was a creative technology team who took...
