{"id":205984,"date":"2018-04-24T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/computer-science\/?p=205984"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:59:10","slug":"cs-student-part-of-winning-team-in-pitch-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/2018\/04\/24\/cs-student-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\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" 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>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\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" 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\/?wp_logged_in=true\">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":205985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}