4 teams win i3 Harvard College Innovation Challenge
Annual startup competition awards grants to student founders
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The winners of the 2021 i3 Harvard College Innovation Challenge are four student startup teams that exhibited outstanding ingenuity and extraordinary perseverance.
As if entrepreneurship isn’t arduous enough, this year’s winners were faced with the additional hurdles of leading and cultivating their startups in a remote environment.
“I’m so proud of and amazed by our student-innovators who keep creating value, undaunted by all of this year’s added challenges,” said Paul Bottino, Executive Director for Innovation Education at SEAS. “And I’m grateful for our sponsors and student organizers who carried on the i3 tradition so we can reward the students and give them the recognition they deserve.”
As we shivered through what I call the week-long “Texas Tundra,” our city’s departments rose to the occasion and passed the test with flying colors. We were well served by professional, dedicated leadership and staff.
Thank you, Curtis Ervin and everyone associated with Bastrop Power and Light. That tree trimming the department does every year kept those ice-ladened branches off power lines around town.
Our other Curtis Curtis Hancock heads our Public Works Department. We had no water issues until things beyond his control failed. However, we were back to running faucets soon after. A friend had a broken pipe early in the week. Public Works employees were at her house in minutes to turn off her water. Many members of his staff slept at the senior center.