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This year, 23 teams from colleges and divisions across the Â鶹´«Ã½AV campus participated in sharing their innovative ideas for products or services with volunteer judges from throughout the community. Students competed for a chance to win cash prizes sponsored by U.S. Bank. Each student team spent 10 minutes pitching their ideas to judges and six walked away with prizes.

One of the first-place teams was Sharp Sense, consisting of College of Business master of health care administration student Tony Torres and his wife Kelsi Torres. Sharp Sense is a medically-centered, sensor device used to send out an alert when hazardous waste containers, filled with needles, reach their capacity.

The other first-place team was H2 Therapeutics, consisting of pharmacy and master of business administration students Jared Barrott, Hugo Rayo and William Cannon. This device places a modification on the continuous positive airway pressure therapy machine that delivers more enriched oxygen to the user, making it easier to sleep.

The second-place winners for the competition was College of Business students Michael Magee and Dylan Orr who won $1,000 for their idea BedWedge. This bike rack would fit into the back of a truck, designed to provide the user with more space. Magee and Orr also won $250 for best prototype as made by a College of Technology student/faculty team.

Third place was tied with $500 prizes going to the teams Broke Saver and Postergeist.

The U.S. Bank Pitch-Off is organized by CEED and is open to any ISU student. This program helps incentivize student entrepreneurs to polish-up their eventual application to the statewide, $100,000 Idaho Entrepreneur Challenge held in Boise in the spring.