The 15 teams listed below are moving on to Phase 2, each taking home $40,000 in cash prizes, along with a chance to win part of the $1.4 million Phase 2 prize pool.
All Phase 1 participants will receive judges’ comments within the next two weeks. For those teams selected to move on to Phase 2, please check your email for your next steps and stay tuned to register for the Phase 2 Rules Webinar.
Congratulations to the following teams:
- Bruce Parkinson’s Team: University of Wyoming
- Ellexco: The George Washington University
- Espiku: Oregon State University
- Freeman Lab: The University of Texas at Austin
- Lirix-nano Sengupta: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- LiSED: Rice University
- Lithium from Home: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Miami Solution: University of Miami
- Nanoporous Graphene Membrane: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Pober-Strauss: Boston University
- SelectPureLi: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Team TELEPORT: University of Virginia
- Tech Desal: Texas Tech University
- Univ of Wyoming Team Goldilocks: University of Wyoming
- University of Utah: The University of Utah