2024 Fowler Business Concept Challenge Highlights Reel
Best Use of Technology ($2,500) The Best Use of Technology Award recognizes and celebrates an innovative concept that will effectively and ethically utilize emerging technology to solve a significant problem that has a substantial market opportunity. Winner: Centra An all-inclusive gunpowder detection system to combat school shootings and loss of life in the United States. Smriti Datta ‘27, Entrepreneurship & Marketing and Alex Morgan ‘27, Entrepreneurship & Finance Health Equity Champion ($2,500) The Health Equity Champion Award recognizes and celebrates an innovative concept that will advance health equity. This special award seeks to spotlight concepts that are making significant strides in addressing health disparities and ensuring equal access to healthcare solutions for all. Winner: Boundless Dental Bus The Boundless Dental Bus will serve Minnesota’s prison population by traveling to prisons to deliver the proper dental care that all incarcerated people are entitled to receive. Elayna Chambers ‘26, Juris Doctorate Kate Herzog Memorial Award ($2,500) Kate launched her social venture, House of Talents, to help artisans build the lives they envision for themselves. This award supports aspiring social entrepreneurs with a passion for poverty alleviation, serving under resourced communities and closing opportunity gaps. Winner: NUSE An AI-driven, voice-activated platform designed to empower non-literate, rural women entrepreneurs in Togo by connecting them to microfinance, business insights, savings, and insurance—all accessible through spoken commands in local languages. Essivi Komlanvi ‘25, MS in Business Analytics
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