The Charles and Janet Forbes Entrepreneurial Competition
Each year, Hajim School undergraduates, individually or in teams, participate in the Charles and Janet Forbes Entrepreneurial Competition, by submitting a business plan for a manufacturing or technical business. Below is a list of the past winners.
| Year | Awardee(s) | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Kevin McGuire | Tailored Lighting Inc. |
| 1991 | Not Awarded | |
| 1992 | Dexter Hodge | Device that generates a frequency that varies linearly with vertical position |
| Theodore Tyree | The Sound Affector: A Digital Effects Unit | |
| Aron Cogswell and Mark Cusac | Reducing Heat Discharge to the Environment with the Use of an Ammonia-Water Heat Pump | |
| Jeff Weisberg, Peter Newcomb, Andrew Forsberg, Yoram Fisher, Natarajan Venkataraman, and Joe Rosato | Educational Mobile Sensor Platforms | |
| 1993 | Dan Berkowitz, Nathan Geryk, Roy Muermann, Vincent Nguyen, Diane Santos, and Jeff Waldrop | Asynchronous Processor |
| Ian Schaad, Debra Wilson, and Gregory Lukins | Epidermal Surface Profiler | |
| Sudhir Bhatia, Peter Charles, and John Johnston | Shape Memory Alloy Actuated Robotics | |
| Matthew Ross and Michael Piotrowski | Piano Damper Pedal Assist | |
| Dan Orband and Yim Chan | Wine Technologies | |
| 1994 | David Franks | Vivid Optical |
| Greg Lukins | Bike Project | |
| Falgun Patel | Biophotonics | |
| 1995 | Lior Gurwitz, Shakeel Peera, and Beejal Shah | Infra-Red Data Transmission Device |
| Jill Greenberg, Christopher McKeever, Nora Meegan, and Jeffrey Shipley | Visual Hearing Aid Devices | |
| Terri Camesano, Anando Chowdhury. Amit Gupta, and Rosann Konecny | Poseidon Chemical Enterprises | |
| 1996 | Alisa Kongthon, Faisal Mir, and Rahul Panday | Oxygen Demand Flow Device |
| Tanuj Agarwal and Bhanu Dhugana | Implementation of a Charged Coupled Device into a Spectrophotometer | |
| Tanuj Agarwal, Scott Diaczun, and Steve Lachance | Preliminary Plant Design for the Manufacture of Cyclohexane by Benzene Hydrogenation | |
| 1997 | Michael Bristol | Personal Communications Systems |
| Matthew Reh, Michael Bristol, and Daniel Petrovich | Adaptation of a Solar Guided Rocket to a Search and Rescue Aid | |
| 1998 | Marchelle Adams, Hyouk-Jean Cha, Buddhika DeSilva, Rahul Gupta, and Nick Hirth | The Collision Avoidance System |
| Andrea Palisca | The Optical Digital Harp | |
| 1999 | Mark Jackson and Lauren Mangiola | Processing Natural Gas into Methanol for the AHEAD Corporation |
| Ebony Schoon and the ME 205 Advanced Mechanical Design Class | Project Junior – D’Vinyl Corporation related story | |
| 2000 | Peter Dusaitis, Brady Huang, and Mark Perillo | MBP Sensor Technologies, Inc |
| 2001 | Nate Chambers | Kodiak Systems Group |
| Joseph Brochu, Caleb Farny, and Rafe Pascale | Team ROV | |
| Ronald Alonzo and Karen Boyd | PreventACL, Inc. | |
| 2002 | Erik Dunki-Jacobs, Matt Andisik, Tony Katsetos, and Vincent Nguyen | 1st Prize – AirGuard |
| Kadie Simon, Scott Hanford, Johny Lopez, and Chuck Welliver | 2nd Prize – Smartdesk, Inc. | |
| 2003 | Elizabeth Farley, Seth Pantanelli, Tia Smith, and Jessie Weber | Dynamic Eyevaluator |
| Huyen Luong, Ryan Burke, and Delali Attiogbe | ZyPATCH, Inc. | |
| 2004 | Maria Arevalo, Sara Finiki, Chrisna Govin, and Kristen Nicholson | SonaCath |
| Randy Erb | Visual Touch | |
| 2005 | Sarah Zimet, Michael Mancini, Yue-Houng Hu , and Rebecca Hickman | 1st Prize – PAHLS |
| Alex Chekholko, Gregory Briggs, and Reid Sprite | 2nd Prize – DLM Research Company | |
| Dan Nathan-Roberts | 2nd Prize – CAD Transitions, Inc. | |
| Megan Damcott, Ling Dong, Amy Huang, and Laura Katzenberger | 3rd Prize – VersaErg Innovationsrelated story | |
| 2006 | Michael Sealander | 1st Prize – Ophthalmetrics, Inc. |
| Erik Monostory and Jacob Kandefer | 1st Prize – H - The New Alternative | |
| Ali Anoff, Samuel Boyce, John Hekl, and Jared Kanofsky | 2nd Prize – NanoNet | |
| 2007 | Amber Czajkowski, Kai Kao, Elizabeth Lalime, and Ranjit Sandhu | 1st Prize – SoLux Smile related story |
| Nate Alves, Elena Macocinschi, Jarrod Orszulak, and Whitney Silkworth | 2nd Prize – Saline Solutions | |
| Dan Fink, Chris Babcock, Dave Borrelli, and Eric Weissmann | 2nd Prize – UR Biodiesel related story | |
| 2008 | James Bai, Sarah Hotaling, and Huy Le | 1st Prize – sAMY Monitor related Story |
| Ashley Cronin, Nick Mikolenko, Brad Ochocki, and Brandon Smoller | 2nd Prize – ToiletMD | |
| Kyle Aures, Scott Warren, Aaron Wescott, and Adam Williamson | 2nd Prize – rKey | |
| 2009 | Cheryl Blechman, Woojin Han, Alvin Lomibao, and Charity Wallace | 1st Prize – PolyNet Technology |
| Tristan Barrueco, Mark DeAngelo, and Nicole Ruszczak | 2nd Prize – microEZmix | |
| Yu Cao, Tyler Kieft, Matthew Magill, and Kishore Padmaraju | 3rd Prize – Watt Watcher | |
| 2010 | Sara Ripp and Kerry Wang | 1st Prize – Arm EmBrace |
| Nicole Telleri and Evan Vandegriff | 2nd Prize – DPNDiagnostics | |
| Justin Chang and Dan Mendelson | 3rd Prize – SimuMed Technologies | |
| 2011 | Benjamin Freedman and Johanna Kelly | 1st Prize – OmNeo, LLC |
| Swapna Kumar, Jacy Bulaon, and Frances Bell | 2nd Prize – DonDoff Solutions | |
| Elie Glik, Brett Sternfield, and Zeyu Zhao | 2nd Prize – gluComfort | |
| Adam Kozak | 3rd Prize – Aegis Technology | |
| 2012 | Travis Block, Sara Hutchinson, Dominic Marino, David Narrow, and Martin Szeto | 1st Prize – MonoMano |
| Max Greenberg | 1st Prize – Droplets, Inc. | |
| Margaret Fettis, Garrett Goss, Catherine Marando, Zachary Milstone, Kimberly Ornell | 2nd Prize – FloMaR | |
| 2013 | Joungyoon (Felix) Kim | 1st Prize – Ovitz |
| Sonja Page, Erin Schnellinger, Ankit Medhekar, W. Spencer Klubben, Matt Plakosh, Michael Nolan | 2nd Prize – TrakOR | |
| Steven Trambert, Alex Feiszli, Eric Frank | 2nd Prize – Formation 3D | |
| 2014 | Kyle Fedorchak and Qihui (Fiona) Pu | 1st Prize – UR DermMates |
| Courtney Astemborski and Chad Pickering | 2nd Prize – Hemo-Box | |
| Charlie Henick | 3rd Prize (tie) – Cognitive | |
| Joung Yoon (Felix) Kim | 3rd Prize (tie) – Ovlay | |
| 2015 | Lucian Copeland and Alexander Matthers | 1st Prize – Nullspace |
| Isabella Cazacu, Brittanie Kilchoer, Jennifer Park, Melinda Vander Horst, Jacob Bohannon | 2nd Prize – SimuClage | |
| Kedarnath Balaji Shashidhar, David Porter, Dan Hassin | 3rd Prize (tie) – Blackout Games | |
| Ervis Vukaj, Rikesh Thapa, Nicholas Falcone, Charlie Kelman | 3rd Prize (tie) – CampusFly | |
| Nick Brown, Pedro Vallejo-Ramirez, Anis Kallel | 3rd Prize (tie) – Teamo | |
| 2016 | Jeff Hrebenach, Morgan Mehring, Max Sims, Wilfred Wallis | 1st Prize – Pollinate Publicity |
| Syed Reefar Aziz and Rose Mbaye | 2nd Prize (tie) – AnesthEZ | |
| Marlen Mahendraratnam and Samuel Perakis | 2nd Prize (tie) – Scoliosis Brace Compliance | |
| 2017 | Anis Kallel ’16, ’17 (KEY) | 1st Prize – EcoFemina |
| Connor McBride (graduate student), Edward Ruppel ’17, Chandler Woo ’17 | 2nd Prize – Proteus Medical | |
| Edgar Alaniz ’17, Carlos Gonzalez ’17, Ibrahim Mohammad ’17, Omar Soufan ’17 | 3rd Prize – Meliora Homes | |
| 2018 | Allen Chen ’19, Krista Pipho ’18, Brandon Smart ’19, and Hetince Zhao ’18 | 1st Prize – UR Connected |
| Vlad Cazacu ’20, Zixu Chen ’20, Duncan Grubbs ’21, Annmarie Hamburgen ’19, and Luis Nova ’18 | 2nd Prize (3-way tie) – BarterOut | |
| Maria Christina Gil Diaz ’20, Paula Guerra ’20, Emmanuel Gweamee ’20, and Aime Laurent Twizerimana ’20 | 2nd Prize (3-way tie) – HORN-Empowers | |
| Sidhant Ahluwalia ’18 and Obed Badillo Moreno ’19 | 2nd Prize (3-way tie) – UpTick | |
| 2019 | Afnan Ahmed ’21, Syed Muhammad Miqdad ’19, Claude Mulindi ’22, and Derrick Murekezi ’19 | 1st Prize – EZ Water |
| Nicholas Drogo ’19, Andrew Kaseman ’21, Scott McKinney ’21, Oliver Ostriker ’19, and Bradley Smith ’20 | 2nd Prize – WetWare | |
| Terrikia Benjamin ’20, Emmanuel Gweamee ’20, and Aime Laurent Twizerimana ’20 | 3rd Prize – Hope Restoration iNitiative (HORN)-Empowers | |
| 2020 | Ayat Chowdhury ’22 | 1st Prize – Rent & Play |
| Tolga Aktas ’19, ’20 (e5 Scholar); Enyxa Poventud ’21; Jianyuan Zhong ’20 | 2nd Prize – Lambda | |
| Xueying “Shelley” Chen ’19, ’20 (e5 Scholar); Kaixin Li ’21; Yawo Alphonse Siatitse ’20; Abdul Moid Munawar ’22; and Vanshika Singhania ’22 | 3rd Prize – YoloShadow | |
| 2021 | Francis Pellegrino ’22; Heriniaina Rajaoberison ’22; Andrew Thankson ’22 | 1st Prize – Advanced Growing Resources |
| Mahin Ghani ’22 | 2nd Prize – My Doctor | |
| Ayat Chowdhury ’22; Abdullah Kokash ’22; Qingjie Lu ’21; Goutham Swaminathan ’23 | 3rd Prize – Unim8 | |
| 2022 | Amanda Adams ’22; Anca Frasineau ’22; Tracey Moyston ’22, Tiana Salomon ’22; Maria Schapfel ’23 | 1st Prize – Bio-Spire |
| John Bates ’22; Chastity Chavez ’22; Madison Lang ’22, Alexander Rivera ’22; Camila Ruiz Vega ’22 | 2nd Prize – Tilt on the Toilet | |
| Sidhant Bendre ’23; Neil Yeung ’23 | 3rd Prize – BuddyBank | |
| 2023 | Isaac Ayeyi Turkson ’23; Paterne Iradukunda ’23 | 1st Prize – Piyata |
| Nina Long ’24 | 2nd Prize – KidSafeAI | |
| Tamuda Chimhanda ’26; Samuel Henderson ’25; Alessio Simoya ’22 | 3rd Prize – Penpal |