Feb. 26, 2024 \u2013 University of Rhode Island students are invited to join the University\u2019s inaugural Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge sponsored by 401 Tech Bridge, a division of the URI Research Foundation, and funded by RISE-UP<\/a>. Innovation challenges are offered to students across programs, interests and colleges, from a challenge to build a green rooftop utopia on Lippitt Hall to a challenge to create underwater hotels for robots, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The initiative is drawing multidisciplinary participation across colleges at URI, as well as the Honors Program, with a variety of challenges centered on the theme of sustainability. The new program invites URI students to contribute to the University\u2019s 10-year strategic plan and joins a culture of cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship and innovation<\/a> at the University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Challenges are open to students\u2014both undergraduate and graduate\u2014from any program or major. Students can apply for any challenge and do not need to be a student in any sponsoring college or program. Teams can be composed of one to six members and are eligible to enter multiple challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prizes for the challenges range from $250 to $2,000, with challenge offerings continuing to be updated. The Graduate School of Oceanography is sponsoring the following challenge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Underwater Hotels for Robots<\/strong> Read about the other program challenges on Rhody Today<\/a>. See the RISE-UP Challenges<\/a> page for the latest challenge updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All entries are due before the end of the spring semester, so interested students are encouraged to apply now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" URI students are invited to join the University\u2019s inaugural Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge sponsored by 401 Tech Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4762,"featured_media":183505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183506,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183504\/revisions\/183506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Students are invited to propose a design of a modular hotel for autonomous underwater robots in different sizes and shapes.\u00a0
Sponsor: Graduate School of Oceanography<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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