More than a third of competitors at the coming Get Started Omaha premier pitch event are expected to represent Kansas City innovation on stage April 6 vying for $25,000 in prize money against other seed-stage companies hailing from Delaware to Texas.
Nikil Ragav’s team also in the planning phase of a collaboration with Fishtech Group that aims to develop an artificial intelligence project for students with the help of the Kansas City-based cybersecurity powerhouse.
The University of Pennsylvania said in a March 3 news release that Indian American Nikil Ragav, and his inventXYZ program, was selected for the 2020 Presidentâs Innovation Prize.
inventXYZ is dedicated to bringing high-tech, hands-on education to high school students everywhere by setting up makerspaces, or collaborative work spaces, at partner schools across the country, the university release said.
For winning the prize, Ragav received an award of $100,000 and an additional $50,000 living stipend.
Ragav, from Sugar Land, Texas, graduated from Penn last year from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology studying electrical engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Operations at the Wharton School, the release said.
The impact of providing hands-on, interactive projects With inventXYZ, President’s Innovation Prize winner Nikil Ragav has created a high-tech curriculum for high school to motivate future problem-solvers. Winner of the 2020 President’s Innovation Prize, Nikil Ragav
Nikil Ragav’s inventXYZ program is dedicated to bringing high-tech, hands-on education to high school students everywhere by setting up makerspaces, or collaborative work spaces, at partner schools across the country.
His proposal to address that need was selected for the 2020 President’s Innovation Prize, which includes an award of $100,000, and an additional $50,000 living stipend.
“Nearly every job, regardless of industry, from manufacturing to marketing,” says Ragav, “is fundamentally changing due to advances in robotics, AI, automated manufacturing, internet connected electronics, and data science.”