IN THE NEWS: Computing students win inaugural Nebraska Governor’s New Venture Competition

Feb 14, 2024      By University Communication

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, who previously visited a management class in Hawks Hall, announced an entrepreneurship pitch competition for college students in the state to help spur innovation in Nebraska. Photo courtesy of Nebraska Today.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, who previously visited a management class in Hawks Hall, announced an entrepreneurship pitch competition for college students in the state to help spur innovation in Nebraska. Photo courtesy of Nebraska Today.

Computing majors and Raikes School students Samuel Ingledue, Seth Daup, Tristan Curd, and Bridget Peterkin were members of three Husker entrepreneur teams awarded monetary prizes last week in the first-ever Nebraska Governor’s New Venture Competition.

The competition was open to any student enrolled in college. Nineteen teams submitted proposals and later pitched their ideas virtually to a panel of judges. First place and $20,000 went to Samuel Ingledue (software engineering) and Tan Phan for their company Privy AI. Second place and $15,000 went to Brooke Bode and Seth Daup (computer engineering) for their company, Cattle Kettle, for stock tank management. Third place and $10,000 went to Bridget Peterkin (computer science) and Tristan Curd (computer science) for Dyslexio, a dyslexia accessibility tool.

Read the achievement feature in Nebraska Today full article in the Lincoln Journal Star here.