The 2009 Whiteboard Challenge Results

The premier event of the MIT Enterprise Forum Chicago season, the Whiteboard Challenge proved once again to be an exciting contest of ideas. This is the essence of MIT, world-renowned for the number of businesses that the university’s organizations incubate.

2009's Whiteboard Challenge first place was conquered by James Rein of TiltAlign.

TiltAlign – a feedback system that gives cerebral palsy patients an incentive to stand up straight.

James may be contacted at 847-284-0346 or emailed at jamesrein2010@u.northwestern.edu.

The second place went to Avelo Roy and Ed Suda of eMotion.

BFF<3 Necklace and online social networking website for Tweens.

Avelo and Ed may be contacted at 708-752-2718, email: info@emotioncorporation.com

Third place was snapped up by Thu Nguyen.

Portion-controlled dinnerware for diabetics, dieters, and the health conscious.

Thu may be contacted at 630-664-4222 or emailed via thumi.nguyen@gmail.com

Our remaining 7 challengers, selected from a crowd of initial 90 entries, were:

David Anderson of Footprint Zero, LLC Offset4Less - permitting consumers to retire carbon credits 312-485-9241 fpzero@gmail.com

Matthew Coyle of Zelen Energy 1000 watt, low-cost, axial-flux wind turbine kits for the developing world 815-505-4517 matt@zelenenergy.com

James Friedman of Novus Ice Systems, LLC Packaged ice point-of-sale manufacturing, bagging, and dispensing platform 312-255-0222 Jaf@novusice.us

Riju Konwar of SurgiTech AutoCount – RFID based Logistic system to keep a count of surgical instruments and sponges 773-895-4582 rkonwar@iit.edu

William Murray of HealthCodex Software for making case management more manageable for insurance companies 847-207-6317

murray@healthcodex.com

Jim Orrico of Assistive Medical Equipment Corp MAX-MOVE™ – an innovation in patient transfer to assist nurses moving in efficient supported transfers 312-848-0198 jim@assistiveme.com

Frank Szczepanski of IVDiagnostics Laser-guided testing to quantify tumor cells in a real-time fashion 219-840-0007 frank@ivdiagnostics.com

View Christopher Rollyson's microblog photo coverage of this event, sent from his iPhone: http://csrollyson.tumblr.com/.

Also, see Avery Cohen's excellent blog with a review of this event at: http://www.metristpartners.com/files/web-analytics-blog/2009/06/mit-enterprise-forum-chicago-whiteboard.html

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