2013 Finalists

College Division

AgroAlert, Joseph Quigley and German Irias
AgroAlert is designed for rural farmers in Central America. It acts as an early warning system that allows farmers to subscribe and receive market prices for their crops on their mobile phones, allowing them to wait to ship their produce to market when the prices are better and fair.

BreakBox, Casey Duncum and Sam Shelton
BreakBox provides students living in a dorm with a simpler and more cost-effective option to store their belongings during the winter or summer break.  

Campus Carpools, Brian Morris
Campus Carpools is a different type of social network for college students. Students can go to the app and select what college they attend, where they want to go and when they want to travel. It's a way for students to cut down on travel cost by carpooling.

Fontsy, Krista Cukrowski
Fontsy is an easy-to-use edutainment app containing a series of mini-games and flash cards to help develop a basic understanding of typographical concepts.

Right Route, Luke Luttrell
Right Route is an application that allows companies to deliver goods in the fastest, most cost-effective route possible. The application finds the fastest possible route when given multiple locations, and calculates the time and miles for the route.

RomantInk, Volatiana Ranaivoarivelo
RomantInk creates an interactive online platform connecting authors to prospective readers, giving authors enhanced tools to promote, market and sell their work; and giving the readers the tools to make educated buying decisions.

Rpens, Volatiana Ranaivoarivelo
Rpens provides personalized, executive Rosewood pen sets to those graduating from high school or college. With its slogan, “Writing for a Cause” a percentage of the companies’ profit will be donated to charity.

Silver Arrow, Daniel Gutierrez
Silver Arrow is a financial web series for Spanish speakers in poverty to learn the basics of personal finance.

Smart Source, Grant Wilson and Nathan Hilliard
Smart Source allows universities’ to provide opportunities for students to work directly with businesses on consulting projects.

ThingsTrend, Allen Taylor, Tyler Eidson, and Weston Schulte
ThingsTrend is the social eCommerce market where students can buy and sell their things. ThingsTrend provides a safe and easy- to- use marketplace where students can buy and sell anything from fellow classmates, ranging from textbooks to furniture.

Community Division

Ban-Dit, Brian Berniard
Ban-Dit is a new, hands free pepper spray device. This unique product offers users the ability to not only spray their attacker but also use their hands to fight the attacker off. The watch- like design can be worn as an everyday accessory.

Doska, Ciara Ray
Doska is an application created to facilitate an online environment that will assist in e-learning for both the traditional and non-traditional student.

Dressentials, Juliana Edwards
Dressentials is the provider of a patented garment designed to keep a brides’ dress and hemline clean. The product was designed with the wedding photographer or with an outdoor wedding in mind. Brides can now keep the detailed trim of a dress intact. Dress+Essentials=Dressentials.

Emineo Art Gallery, Thomas Griffin
Emineo is an online art gallery exclusive to college artists. It addresses the issues of geographic limitations and limited networking of individual artists. Additionally, Emineo provides a unique user interface that serves as a business learning tool in partnership with universities internationally.

Just Cause Tees, James Hendrix
Just Cause Tees is an online retailer selling a shirt of the week associated with helping a specific cause.  

My Sister's House, Summer Walters and Kate Stover
My Sister’s House is a semi-annual consignment sale focused on providing an affordable shopping alternative for women in an upscale, eclectic environment that promotes community. The companies’ motto is simple: REDUCE by keeping only what you love, REUSE what you find to refresh your look, and RESELL the rest.

RAIN, Ciara Ray
RAIN seeks to provide affordable medication to all of Central America. Once established RAIN would branch out into other third world areas making medicine cost effective to clinics and, ultimately, consumers.

Rising Heroes, Topher Fangio
Rising Heroes takes your average Joe to an outstanding hero. A hybrid, massively multiplayer online role-playing game and fitness tracker, Rising Heroes features a rich storyline where efforts to level up your life in the real world, influence events in the game. The fate of Arcadea is in your hands.

Safe-T-Chains, Richard Garza
Safe-T-Chains is a provider of innovative chains used by referees in football games. Safe-T-Chains provides accuracy and safety to those participating on and off the football field.

Social Standard, Taylor Mann
Social Standard is a daily deals retail site selling 'fraternity' style clothing at large discounts.