ANGOLA â A business raising show goats and a device that prevents pants tears for those with lower limb prosthetics took the top prizes at Trine Universityâs annual Innovation Challenge, held Thursday in the T. Furth Center for Performing Arts.
Presented by the universityâs Trine Innovation 1 and Fifth Third Bank, the annual contest provides cash prizes to top business and technology ideas. Awards are funded by a gift from Fifth Third Bank, Greater Indiana.
The $3,000 first prize in the business division went to Acacia Ranch Show Goats, presented remotely by DeKalb High School students and siblings Sydney and Matthias Hefty. The business provides high-quality, cost-effective goats for the growing number of 4-H members throughout the region seeking to show the animals.