Seven teams of five Portuguese students together with one MIT student/alumnus were challenged to prepare a go-to-market strategy for an MIT technology, which they pitched in front of a jury. Winning teams were awarded first, second and third prizes, of 3,000 €, 1,500 € and 750 €, respectively. Prizes were handed out by the Dean of FCT/UNL and a representative from the sponsor Caixa Geral de Depósitos.

Composition of the teams and prizes awarded:

1st Prize - Application of a 3D imaging camera in a robot to be used inside buildings after disasters
Tiago André Cunha Reis – Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, FCT-UNL
Duarte Nuno Rodrigues da Silva – Mechanical Engineering, FCT-UNL
João Pedro Monteiro Serafim – Civil Engineering, FCT-UNL
Maria Goreti Faria da Costa e Silva – Economics, UMinho
Pedro Tiago Evangelista – MIT-PT Bio-Engineering Systems
Richard Jamieson Myrick – Senior Advisor and Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AgeLab

2nd Prize - Application of 3D imaging for modelling the middle and inner ear and designing hearing aids
João Pedro A. Rodrigues – Mechanical Engineeering, FCT-UNL
Bruno Miguel Pousinho Figueiredo – Electrical and Computer Engineeering, FCT-UNL
Paulo Jorge Lopes Maia da Silva – MIT-PT Bio-Engineering Systems
Ana Sofia Dinis Esteves – Biotechnology, FCT-UNL
Adrian Klie – Economics, FE-UNL
John Harthorne – Founder and CEO of MassChallenge

3rd Prize - Application of 3D ear imaging for designing personalized headphones
João Filipe Santos – Industrial Engineering and Management, IST-UTL
João Pedro Ribeiro Miranda – Biomedical Engineering, FCT-UNL
Alexandre Filipe da Silva Malveiro Matias – Informatics Engineering, FCT-UNL
Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Gonçalves – Polymer Engineering, UMinho
Pedro Gabriel Castilho Barros Fonseca – Mechanical Engineering, FCT-UNL
Grace Chen – MIT Global Startup Workshop