A Japanese public broadcast station will tape students Feb. 26-27 on the College of Engineering campus who participated in the 2009 Innovation Day.
Crews from the TopSpin Creative Corporation, a New York-based company, are developing a special program to air on the Gakusei Channel, which targets its shows to college students in Japan. The channel is broadcaston a nonprofit, nationwide network dedicated to education.
Innovation Day is a free, annual undergraduate invention competition open to the public. The event includes the Schoofs Prize for Creativity and the Tong Prototype Prize, which gives cash prizes to those with the most creative ideas.
Justin Beck, a senior majoring in electrical and computer engineering and Daniel Gartenberg, senior majoring in psychology and neurobiology, collaboratively won the top prize Feb. 12 at the 2009 Innovation Day.
Beck and Gartenberg won $10,000 for inventing an iPhone and iPod touch software application to help people sleep better. The two winners were chosen out of 10 students who presented at the event.
