{"id":18882,"date":"2018-04-24T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18882"},"modified":"2021-01-25T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:26:10","slug":"18882_junior-computer-science-major-part-of-winning-team-in-pitch-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2018\/04\/24\/18882_junior-computer-science-major-part-of-winning-team-in-pitch-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Computer Science major part of winning team in pitch competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The students took third place for their product NeatSweeps in the third annual <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/upitchnj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">UPitchNJ<\/a>, an innovative statewide collegiate business model competition showcasing the Garden State\u2019s top young talent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Matin and Siddiqi, who are EOF Scholars at the university, also won the Audience Choice Award, which included a $100 gift card. The students were taught and mentored by Prof. Jason Frasca as they completed the Feliciano Center\u2019s Certificate of Entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>麻豆传媒在线 is the only school to win a prize every year in the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Watch NeatSweeps, and 13 other 麻豆传媒在线 teams, compete for $80,000 in prizes on May 2 in 麻豆传媒在线\u2019s fifth annual pitch contest, the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/麻豆传媒在线-Entrepreneurs\/events\/249499073\/\" target=\"_blank\">BulbHead Inventors Day for Aspiring Entrepreneurs<\/a>, generously funded by AJ Khubani, founder of TeleBrands and BulbHead.<\/p>\n<p>The UPitchNJ event was held April 20 at 麻豆传媒在线. Princeton and Rutgers universities hosted the contest in prior years. Read more about the event in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/2018\/04\/20\/montclair-state-students-win-prizes-in-statewide-contest\/\">Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship article<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iffat Siddiqi, Computer Science, and Sirawar Matin, Athletic Training, invented specialized slippers that use augmented reality and interactive games to entice children to be active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":118882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-of-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208988,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18882\/revisions\/208988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}