he Global Challenge is extremely proud to present the winners of the 2008-2009 competition. Individual awards included international travel, tuition at the Governor’s Institute on Engineering at the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences University of Vermont, and cash scholarships.

Four categories of special recognition were created: Best Global Business Plan and Best Technical Innovation Plan awards were determined by internal and external judges’ scores based in both a detailed rubric and overall judgments of quality and completeness. Best Explorations awards were based on the number and quality of submissions. Best Overall Score combined all scores, documentation, surveys and the submission of a “Patent Application” to the program web site.

Best Global Business Plan Best Technical Innovation Plan Individual Score Best Team Average
S.O.S.

Balakrishna Pillai
Ivan Duschatzky

 1st Place

Greenovation

Eileen Mesa
Sumit Mitra

Harrison Hunter

 Eureka

Deqin Xu
Lingliang Zhang
Stephany Damaso
VISTA

Ahana Datta
AdityaVikram Singh
Aman Malik
Sheng-Ting Lin
Alena Thompson

 2nd Place

Global Warriors

Divya Bhat
Anna Cardinal
Aditi Srinivasan
Alan Nero

Divya Bhat
Ahana Datta

 Simple Thought

Balajee VenkatRaman
Nikhil Venkat
Aneesha Raghunathan
Joshua Improta
Eureka

Deqin Xu
Lingliang Zhang
Stephany Damaso

Balakrishna Pillai

 3rd Place

S.O.S.
Special Recognition
Jason van der Merwe
Seth Shelnutt
Reena Joubert
Amanda Urena
Sammy Rao
Erol Bayraktar
Cornia Nicoara
Nosayr Yassin