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Ready to advance mountain biking technology? It's Squishy Time
The Squishy Time team members Jackson Houdek, Jerry Jiang, Drew Lemke, and Hai Wang connected at University of Oregon through a love of...

Christina Williams
Jun 18, 20192 min read


OHSU team SHIFTing perspective on disease detection with AI
This is the first year that Oregon Health and Science University has participated in the InventOR Collegiate Challenge and their finalist...

Christina Williams
Jun 17, 20193 min read


Set it and forget it: A livestock tracking system that works for ranchers
Niles Walter's family owns a ranch in the Klamath Basin that has seen its share of possibly preventable livestock deaths. So when Niles...

Christina Williams
Jun 13, 20193 min read


Team Turner Automotive is coming for your old Honda Accord
Henry Ford didn't invent automobile, but he made it affordable and brought cars to the masses. That's the innovation that inspires Team...

Christina Williams
Jun 13, 20192 min read


TrailHungry has a multitool for your backpack
If you've ever owned a multitool or a Swiss Army knife, you know there's nearly limitless options for the tasks you can use it for. Well...

Christina Williams
Jun 12, 20193 min read


Vend Renter wants to be an assistant for your outdoor experience
The women behind Team Vend Renter set out to make life easier for people like themselves — busy professionals with kids who want to do it...

Christina Williams
Jun 12, 20195 min read


A leg up: Pet Prosthetics has a solution for amputated pups
Friends who met in Rogue Community College's Engineering Club, the team behind Pet Prosthetics caught wind of a problem commonly...

Christina Williams
Jun 11, 20192 min read


Charge! Team Thermochargers wants to give you the power
Imagine backpacking in the wilderness and being able to charge your device just using the heat of your body. While finding a cell signal...

Christina Williams
Jun 11, 20191 min read


Microfuidics: Bringing a new form of science to students everywhere
Team Access to Microfluidics has been spending some time in the natural world getting to know the awesome power of microfluidics — the...

Christina Williams
Jun 10, 20192 min read


It's in their blood: Team Euphoria on what it takes to succeed
What is Euphoria? The team from Warner Pacific University wants you to forget Webster's definition and think instead of a backpack that...

Christina Williams
Jun 9, 20192 min read


Pyrolysis, plastics, and progress on sustainable living: Meet The Reclaimers
With an eye toward the plastics that are causing big headaches for recycling efforts (China stopped buying U.S. waste plastics a while...

Christina Williams
Jun 9, 20193 min read


Medivac has a cooler solution
The five students who make up Team Medivac are dedicated to making life easier for the more than 100 million people in the U.S. who live...

Christina Williams
Jun 6, 20192 min read


It's Elemental: Team Dream's powered pack is headed to the InventOR Final
Leslie Thompson goes to school in eastern Oregon where nearby mountains draw backpackers from all over the place and smoke from forest...

Christina Williams
Jun 4, 20193 min read


Southwestern Oregon's STARS are lacing up their self-tying shoes
Anyone who has worked with someone elderly or disabled knows that something as simple as putting on a pair of shoes can be a daunting...

Christina Williams
Jun 4, 20192 min read


From roommates to innovation partners: Lewis & Clark's Z-Tracker gets it done
What happens when roommates are similarly driven by innovative ideas? In the case of Nick Lombardi and Shvetank Prakash, they became...

Christina Williams
Jun 4, 20192 min read


Gridiron Glove takes to the field for InventOR Finals
Members of the Gridiron Glove team from Linfield College met during a class on sports management and they're serious about their...

Christina Williams
Jun 3, 20192 min read


Not just inside baseball, Team Wolf sees a range of uses for its batting glove
Justin Dodge is a senior at Western Oregon University and has a good handle on the best way to measure a batter's swing in baseball. HIs...

Christina Williams
Jun 3, 20192 min read


They say it's 20/20: Hindsight brings visibility to InventOR
The students behind Team Hindsight — Drake Dawson, Zac Barley, Kiana Heitzman and Jillian Ramos — share a passion for helping people....

Christina Williams
May 29, 20192 min read


InventOR alum Nexgarden receives seed funding for its indoor farming business
We talk a lot about the #RoadtoInventOR around here, but what about the road beyond InventOR? For an inspiring story about what's...

Christina Williams
May 22, 20192 min read


InventOR Collegiate Challenge Advances 22 Teams to Final Round
Oregon’s only statewide invention competition — announced 22 finalist teams that will represent their schools at the final competition....

Christina Williams
May 20, 20192 min read
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