Science & Technology Showcase
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
HUB Lyceum
5:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Submit applications by Friday, January 3rd, 2025 @ 11:59 p.m. PST
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Do you want to attend the largest team formation event of the year?
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Do you have a business idea in the science and technology space and need teammates to carry it out?
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Do you want to see how your idea fares in the eyes of real entrepreneurs?
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If you answered YES to any of these questions, register NOW using the link below!
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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Registration Opens: November 2024
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Application Deadline: Friday, January 3rd, 2025 by 11:59 p.m. PST
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Applicants will be notified no later than Wednesday, January 8th
ELIGIBILITY​
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Only currently enrolled UW students are allowed to participate in the STS. All non-student members (including advisers, faculty members, and mentors) are ineligible to participate or attend.
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The proposed product or idea must be science and/or technology-based.
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​​ Only teams that have not yet won a top prize (1st or 2nd place) in the STS or any other competition may participate in the STS.
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Only teams that have not yet participated in any accelerator programs may participate in the STS.
Do you have a scientific idea with tangible societal impact beyond academia? Then you should join the 2025 SEBA Science and Technology Showcase!
At this event, student-led teams explore needs, invent technologies to solve them, and showcase their ideas to the scientific and business communities at UW for cash prizes. You'll get the opportunity to present your innovations to an audience of fellow scientists, engineers, and a panel of judges consisting of prominent entrepreneurs and investors from the Seattle business community.
This is the first of several annual pitch competitions hosted at UW. STS stands apart from the rest as an "ideas stage competition," meaning no prototypes are allowed nor necessary to compete. Past participants have gone on to create successful startup companies, and others have found their experience to be incredibly valuable for their careers.
After the STS competition, we will also feature a networking hour for students to build meaningful connections with the community and each other.
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If you have any questions, please email relations@uwseba.org.
Past Winners
Innovation Mix at 2024 Science & Technology Showcase (STS)
January 26, 2024
The incredible range of innovation taking place at the University of Washington captured the interest of judges at the 2024 Science and Technology Showcase (STS). From machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions to medical and environmental devices, the 18 finalist teams showcased early ideas that could become the impactful startups of tomorrow. Judges awarded the $2,000 Electronic Arts Grand Prize to team PiezoPulse for their pacemaker battery solution that decreases the need for expensive and risky device replacements. PiezoPulse also won the $200 Davis Wright Tremaine Most Innovative Prize at the 18th annual event co-hosted by the UW Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) and the Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship.
Potential On Display at Science & Technology Showcase
January 17, 2023
Judges had stress on their minds at the 2023 Science and Technology Showcase (STS) at the University of Washington—but not in the way you might think. They awarded the team nomi the $2,000 Electronic Arts Grand Prize for its approach to creating effective, accessible, and engaging stress recognition and intervention tools. Team nomi hopes to impact not just the day-to-day work life of millions, but to also address the long-term impact stress can have on the body. Team nomi also won the $200 Davis Wright Tremaine Best Pitch Prize at the 17th annual event co-hosted by the UW Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) and the Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship.
Students Deliver at 2022 Science and Technology Showcase
January 25, 2022
In a new online presentation mode teams competed in, nearly $5,000 was awarded to seven of the participating teams. Team One Court won the $2,000 Electronic Arts Grand Prize for its touch-based interface designed to revolutionize how visually impaired people experienced sporting events , adding to existing but limiting solutions, such as radio and interpersonal narration. The second place Prize went to team Ultropia for its all-in-one washer and dryer innovation. Ultropia aims to help people with limited infrastructure gain access to laundry machines by providing a resource saving product made with ultrasonic technology. The team also won to $200 Davis Wright tremaine category prizes (Best Pitch) at the event. More highlights from the 2022 STS can be found below.
Ideas Elevated at 2021 Science and Technology Showcase
January 28, 2021
Judges awarded Puget Buoy the $2,000 Glympse Grand Prize for its beneficial and affordable system for crabbers that reduces whale and marine life entanglements. The team also won one of the $200 Davis Wright Tremaine category prizes (Best Presentation) at the 15th annual event—co-hosted by the UW Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) and the Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. The Puget Buoy System provides crabbers with an affordable alternative that both reduces whale entanglements and prevents gear loss. Our timed-release crab pot system keeps crabbing lines out of the water column which means whales can migrate through crabbing waters at a dramatically reduced risk of entanglement (40-88% estimated decrease).
Science & Technology Showcase Reaches New Heights
January 28, 2020
It’s not often the grand prize entry in a showcase is kept hidden under a sheet. Then again, you wouldn’t take modesty into account at a hospital while trying to solve a sensitive medical issue like poorly inserted urinary catheters. That’s where the innovative—and hyper-realistic—training prototype from bioengineering student Alyssa Schul comes into play. The CREST Urethral Catheter Simulator earned her the $1,000 Premera Grand Prize at the 2020 Science and Technology Showcase at the University of Washington. Judges also awarded Schul a $100 Davis Wright TremaineBest Communicator Prize at the 14th annual competition co-hosted by the Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) and the Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship.
Student Innovators Shine at 2019 Science and Technology Showcase
January 25, 2019
A student team who created an affordable, universal eyedropper adapter earned the Premera Blue Cross grand prize at the 13th Annual Science and Technology Showcase (STS) at the University of Washington. Nanodropper decreases the volume of oversized eyedrops to reduce cost, waste, and side effects. The team was among a group of seven to take home funding awards at the annual showcase for science and technology-based innovations coming out of the University.
Student Innovators Shine at Science and Technology Showcase
January 18, 2018
Seven student teams took home prizes from the 12th Annual Science and Technology Showcase (STS) at the University of Washington. Grand Prize sponsor Magic AI presented $1,000 to a team of engineering students for their innovative approach to providing real-time data on blood flow fluctuation in a patient experiencing cardiac arrest. A complete list of the winning teams is detailed below.
Student Innovation on Display at Science and Technology Showcase
January 25, 2017
Seven student teams took home prizes at the 11th Annual Science and Technology Showcase (STS) co-hosted by the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship and the student-run Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA). The showcase provides University of Washington students with the opportunity to pitch the potential of their science- and technology-based innovations. Seattle-area entrepreneurs and investors served as judges and provided in-person feedback and critique.
Student innovations wow judges in Science & Technology Showcase
January 22, 2016
Co-hosted by the Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship and student club Science & Engineering Business Association (SEBA), the annual Science & Technology Showcase on Jan. 21, 2016, brought student innovators from across campus together in a tradeshow-style competition. Student innovators gave 60-second pitches to a panel of judges — Seattle-area entrepreneurs and investors — as well as talking with them one-on-one to answer questions. These students’ expertise ranged from biomedical engineering to Human Centered Design and Engineering.
Science & Technology Showcase highlights student innovations
February 13, 2014
Many students at the University of Washington are working on science and technology-based innovations that have potential for commercialization. The annual Science & Technology Showcase (co-hosted by the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship and SEBA) is a tradeshow-like event where students have the opportunity to share these innovations with an audience of fellow scientists and engineers, as well as to business students interested in working on the marketability of new technologies.
IGERT Trainee wins 1st place in Science and Tech Showcase
March 24, 2010
IGERT Trainee Omid Veiseh was the first place winner in the Third Annual Science and Technology Showcase Competition (2008) sponsored by UW’s Science and Engineering Business Association and Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The technology for novel cancer diagnostics and treatment he presented was developed with partial support from his IGERT traineeship. His project was evaluated by a panel of local venture capitalists and investors.