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NSF Announces Community College Innovation Challenge Winners

July 21, 2016
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The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), announced the winners of the Community College Innovation Challenge – a competition that challenged teams of community college students to propose innovative science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-based solutions to real-world problems. A team from Forsyth Technical Community College in North Carolina placed first in the challenge with its Energy Efficient Nanotech Solar Greenhouse idea. Minnesota’s Normandale Community College placed second with its proposals to install and implement hydrokinetic turbines in wastewater treatment plants to generate renewable energy. The top-ranked teams were decided after 10 finalists attended a four-day innovation boot camp. Other finalists proposed projects on innovative, research-based solutions to challenges at the nexus of food, energy, and water systems such as autonomous technology lake algae, junk-yard generators, water conservation technologies, and improvements to wind towers. Read the announcement…

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