Achievement

As an update to the achievement from last year, three Trainees, Christian Laskowski, Todd Snelson, and Eric Peterson, continued with Sustain-a-PET. Their project finished in second place at the Tech Valley Business Plan in Albany and received $5k for the advancement of the project and the RPI Grand Prize ?Change the World Challenge? Award, providing a total of $10,000 of much-needed seed funding to continue the project. With assistance from IGERT contacts, their team has met with representatives from Hasbro, attended Toy Fair 2011, collaborated with the *DECO design group, and has plans to bring Sustain-a-PET? to commercialization once all involved trainees have completed their degrees. All of this was enabled by the IGERT?s interdisciplinary contacts and support as a whole.