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YOUNG INNOVATORS TO WATCH AT CES 2020

Showcasing student achievement amidst the most innovative place on the planet

The Young Innovators to Watch Scholarship Program awards middle school, high school, and college students for original technology projects, inventions, or discoveries that display forward-thinking technologies.

A group of expert judges in tech and education makes the final determination based on a well-rounded set of criteria focused on viability, entrepreneurial vision, and social good. Winners are invited to attend CES 2020 for an awards presentation and receive a curated tour of CES.

The projects awarded this year represent innovations in quantum computing, machine learning, and blockchain. There we no shortage of close seconds with brilliant ideas that should be celebrated.We’ve chosen a few to year’s past, but click here for more.

2020 ENTRIES

CES LAS VEGAS

Spira

2020 National CES
One of the most prominent challenges that developing countries face is respiratory diseases. For example, COPD is a lead...
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1493

Honestblocks

2020 National CES
With mentorship from Hyperledger, IBM & Microsoft I developed Honestblocks, a Blockchain platform to track medicatio...
5
1060

ReDawn

2020 National CES
ReDawn is a mobile app built to put power into the hands of survivors of sexual violence. It serves as a platform to get...
2
723

The Immunoessence Chip

2020 National CES
Human blood plasma and other body fluids are routinely used for identifying factors/ biomarkers for clinical diagnoses o...
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1034

EasyGlucose

2020 National CES
EasyGlucose is a cloud-powered, non-invasive, and cost-effective method of blood glucose monitoring for diabetic patient...
10
568

MODular Aerial Platform

2020 National CES
The MODular Aerial Platform (MODAP) is a cost-efficient, purpose-driven, and automated drone system that expedites the p...
5
503

CRISPR E. coli Detection

2020 National CES
Diarrheal diseases are the leading cause of death for children under the age of five. In 2017, 1.6 million people died o...
33
601

ParkPerks

2020 National CES
We are in the process of creating an app called ParkPerks. This app will allow you to save time when looking for parking...
9
548

QJump

2020 National CES
Whenever we get up early to buy a cup of coffee or wait hours on Black Friday to shop for our loved ones, we are not jus...
3
461

Wizard of the Night

2020 National CES
Wizard of the Night is a top-down dungeon crawler video game. It centers around a wizard named Curtis who was laid off f...
2
371

iCare

2020 National CES
The red reflex test is used by ophthalmologists to detect destructive eye diseases such as cataracts and glaucoma among ...
3
353

ECOCHAIN

2020 National CES
EcoChain is an unique blockchain platform designed specifically for tobacco. Tobacco is a seriously misunderstood substa...
2
348

Discite

2020 National CES
We made a project that gets the most recent advancements in a certain person's interest. If people want to become more i...
2
382

Immune 2.0

2020 National CES
Over the past 80 years, we've made amazing strides in biotechnology, curing some of the world's worst diseases. But just...
4
478

Virtuary

2020 National CES
There is an increasing amount of problems with the demand to supply ratio of doctors versus patients in developing count...
9
624

Contraband Clothing

2020 National CES
Contraband is a socially conscious clothing company that has found a way to embed augmented reality technology into clot...
1
363

Crediture

2020 National CES
Over 1.7 billion people around the world don't have a bank account and can't access a loan service. For people in develo...
9
449

Darwin^x

2020 National CES
We were wondering why nanobots weren't a reality, even though they are popular in fiction. When we looked into the probl...
18
474

RASHionale

2020 National CES
RASHionale is an AI driven app that has been trained on images of various skin rashes to, given a user’s image of their ...
13
380

OpenMed

2020 National CES
Consumer data is worth billions, yet individuals have little control over how it is used. Consumers’ obscure day-to-day ...
80
866

Aikatch

2020 National CES
Aikatch is an chirplet transform based algorithm that pairs with EGG to recreate the images you see directly from your b...
13
412

Dexterity

2020 National CES
The mission of Dexterity is to provide those in developing countries with access to essential life skills — these range ...
38
584

Eden XR

2020 National CES
Eden XR is a startup company dedicated to centralizing the XR industry. The main issue with the industry right now is th...
7
540

ParaTech

2020 National CES
We live in a society where there is an abundance of information. To help digest this large amount of information, I crea...
76
465

VADAR

2020 National CES
Currently, those who are Deaf or hard of hearing can experience trouble completing basic daily tasks such as interacting...
2
395

Journai

2020 National CES
In every major democracy the news firms in the region control which way the election goes and which politician wins and ...
8
465

LensClenz

2020 National CES
There are currently 120 million contact lens wearers worldwide who are susceptible to sight-threatening infections cause...
3
309

Low Clearance AGV for cars

2020 National CES
This product/Project is a Automatic Guided Vehicle that will transport low clearance cars (clearance of 53mm at minimum)...
1
301

Codenote

2020 National CES
Codenote is a natural language toolkit built for programming languages. While a subset of AI known as natural language p...
7
488

CapTCR TIL Tracking

2020 National CES
CapTCR TIL Tracking is my research project that I am running in the Pugh Lab at the Princess Margaret Cancer Research Ce...
2
416

DeepDev

2020 National CES
DeepDev is a platform that takes a code-less approach to learning, building, and deploying machine learning applications...
53
714

Photome Labs

2020 National CES
According to the UN, there are less than 12 years left to solve climate change and approximately two years to find the s...
73
957

Prompt Patents

2020 National CES
We’re building software tools powered by machine learning to automate the patent drafting process, which would speed up ...
5
469

Pikachai

2020 National CES
How it works: The NLP Conversational Part: (input my sentence via voice, output Pikachu’s response via voice). First...
7
514

Aletheia

2020 National CES
Natural Language Processing, more specifically sentiment analysis allows us to understand the "sentiment" or positivity/...
2
352

Branchlink

2020 National CES
With the immense amount of learning resources available online, people often don’t know how to approach learning about a...
9
459

Project WOMBAT

2020 National CES
Project WOMBAT (Working On Machine Based Autonomous Transport) is a state of the art self-driving platform. Based off of...
4
466

Intelom

2020 National CES
My app uses the Muse headband to collect EEG data from users. The data has 4 channels that are along the frontal lobe. I...
5
414

PocketOnco

2020 National CES
Colorectal, breast, and skin cancer are among the most common and deadly diseases in the United States, according to the...
2
371

BP-Lytic

2020 National CES
This product is a breakthrough in blood pressure monitoring technology (patent pending). It is an ingenious, wearable de...
8
646

AutomobileAI

2020 National CES
More than 1 million people are killed in car accidents every year. The average age of vehicles on the road in America is...
1
378

Genis

2020 National CES
40% of disease deaths annually in the US & Canada are preventable. That’s 22.67 million people! When you think about...
2
438

Seeing for the Blind

2020 National CES
Blind people navigate by understanding where objects are around them, and what those objects are, in order to create a m...
1
374

Electromagnetic Pulse Generator

2020 National CES
Invented in 1951 by Andrei Sakharov, then improved later on because of Nikola Tesla’s invention of the magnetic coil; th...
0
419

Memorcize (“Memory Exercise”)

2020 National CES
The challenges of dementia are numerous. Some of the most prevalent and devastating are depression, anxiety, apathy, agi...
2
394

GuardR

2020 National CES
GuardR is a device that can be used by a supervisor to monitor a worker’s health and safety to reduce the time taken for...
1
340

Synbiolic

2020 National CES
Taking a drug from research to market is estimated to cost on average 2.6 billion dollars, and more than 10 years. Cu...
68
909

Shard

2020 National CES
My project is an app that completely destroys the typical business card. Shard will allow users to create a personalized...
0
328

SMMRIZER

2020 National CES
When a person visits the doctor and finds out they have a certain ailment, they are often referred to a specialist who c...
1
323

PlantumAI

2020 National CES
PlantumAI utilizes Artificial Intelligence technology to augment farmers in less-fortunate areas, providing them with to...
0
439

CerebroStim

2020 National CES
CerebroStim is a platform that aims to make the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune diseases much cheaper, faster, and...
164
1088

SERENITY

2020 National CES
The recurring activity primarily in the sensory cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala, due to anxiety episodes is done throu...
533
1149

Embrace

2020 National CES
My prototype Embrace is a portable bag that hugs you back via vibrations, lights, and sounds, geared towards those that ...
1
370

Unotify

2020 National CES
Have you ever received notifications for an app that you don't even use when you need to get an important message from y...
26
682

NavAssistAI

2020 National CES
The project we created is a navigation assistant for the visually impaired. It uses an SSDLite recognition model, runnin...
8
547

DermaDL

2020 National CES
An easy-to-use tool, DermaDL, that can accurately diagnose skin cancer (and other conditions that may develop into cance...
1
570

Biotein

2020 National CES
Biological aging is a huge problem that causes many diseases such as dementia, and Parkinson's. Unfortunately, it is una...
15
702

Zilic

2020 National CES
We made an disease detection machine learning model for medical images. It’s able to look at a medical scan (CT Scan, X-...
4
479

DreamAI

2020 National CES
DreamAI is not a typical tech start-up - instead, it is one that helps to optimize the potential of future immigrants in...
85
756

Studiously

2020 National CES
Studiously is an EdTech studying platform that promotes understanding over memorization through artificial intelligence ...
4
458

Singing_textposts

2020 National CES
Over the past two years, I have been devoted to uploading positive and comedic messages to my Instagram account, Singing...
1
316

Infinity Holographic 3D Display

2020 National CES
The Infinity, is a 3D holographic display. We call this new type of device a PALI Display, meaning Parallax Autostereosc...
1
518

The DropOffs

2020 National CES
I doubt any other application will sound as good as mine – or rock as hard! My project is the band I formed, manage, pro...
3
557

The iwash

2020 National CES
The iwash could potentially be used as an everyday household appliance. It could clean and dry a pair of glasses in unde...
2
400

A Thermo-Dynamic Contracture Brace

2020 National CES
In pediatric arthritis, children often develop a joint contracture and range of motion is lost. Often, these contracture...
5
439

Relevium

2020 National CES
Relevium is a revolutionary app that can diagnose the extent of Melanoma on the user's skin accurately and provides nece...
15
650

TactiCup

2020 National CES
I notice the problems and little annoyances that go along with shaker bottles, mugs, and cups. Hard to clean, bad insula...
1
523