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April 27, 2012 | UW Today

CSE students repeat win at national cyber defense competition

The UW cyber defense team clearly demonstrated that last year's win was not a fluke by maintaining a sense of humor while defending their web hosting "company" despite a constant barrage of attacks and technical challenges set up by the competition organizers. Team members: CSE seniors Ian Finder, Mick Ayzenberg, Henry Baba-Weiss, Landon Meernik, Miles Sackler and Cullen Walsh; junior Lars Zornes, and doctoral student Karl Koscher. See also:
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Five CoE student teams in the Business Plan Competition sweet 16

In a trade show format that supplies judges with 1,000 CIE dollars to “invest,” the 2012 UW Business Plan Competition is down to 16 teams. The following teams received the highest investment and will now advance to the Sweet 16 Round on May 24. Engineering student teams heading to the finals: Barrels of Hope, Game2Code, Genius Lighting, LumiSands, and OmniOff.
See also: GeekWire article

March 30, 2012 | UW Today

Bigger, bolder, greener: The 2012 UW Environmental Innovation Challenge

Clean-tech teams made up of UW engineering and business students won honors and cash awards Thursday at the 2012 UW Environmental Innovation Challenge. The grand prize went to Green Innovative Safety Technologies (GIST) for highway lane dividers made of recycled rubber tires. Second prize went to Barrels of Hope -- sustainable, emergency housing kits that fit inside a rain barrel.
See also: GIST's pitch on video
See also: Urban Harvest's pitch to grow vegetables on commercial buildings

March 1, 2012 | UW Today

UW Students to Design Alternative-fuels Vehicle for EcoCAR 2 Competition

The UW campus is seeing more alternative fuel vehicles like the Toyota Prius, the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt. In the lower level of the mechanical engineering building annex, UW students are working on a car that aims to leave them in the dust, from an environmental standpoint.

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