Two projects were selected as winners in this year's edition of the "Entrepreneur in Science" competition organized by the Carol Knowledge Foundation, which is being held for the eighth year, the organizers announced.
The jury met for two days and decided after a runoff that the prize and the award of 15,000 euros would be shared by the authors of the projects SolarBlinds - a new generation of intelligent external blinds with built-in photovoltaic cells, and Academy for Personal Development - cognitive development through play, a digital trainer Hram Light.
The host of the competition was the current winner of the "Entrepreneur in Science" award, Eng. Tsvetomir Gachev. A total of 13 finalists were admitted to the final of the competition. It took place on December 17, and at the event, twelve of the finalists presented their projects to the mentors and lecturers acting as the jury, as well as guests - business angels and investors.
Students from the Technical University of Sofia, Alexander Kolchev and Ivian Stoyanov (SolarBlinds), and the university's doctoral student Theodor Ybkov (Academy for Personal Development through Hram Light), won the trust of the jury, composed of the program's lecturers and mentors. With their success, the award in the competition remains at the university for the third consecutive year.
Alexander Kolchev and Ivian Stoyanov presented a prototype of the SolarBlinds external blinds at the final and demonstrated the qualities of the nano-coating, which will ensure high efficiency. During the presentation of the project, it became clear that the team is preparing patents for product components, to which there is already customer interest.
Hram Light is a video game with neurofeedback. This is a technology that "listens" to what is happening in your brain while you play and changes the game according to changes in you, according to its author Theodor Ybkov. The goal is to develop cognitive and sensorimotor skills, such as reacting to unpredictable stimuli, speed of visual information processing, time perception, fine motor skills, and sensorimotor rhythm. According to Ybkov, sensorimotor rhythm is a poorly studied phenomenon, often associated with a state of rest. The ability of a person to freely activate sensorimotor rhythm would be beneficial in everyday life and in professional development, especially for specialists such as surgeons, firefighters, pilots, and others, the team believes. The creator of the idea for the Academy for Personal Development, Ybkov, showed an electroencephalograph (EEG) device that connects to Hram Light to measure brain activity. For demonstrations, the jury was invited to a laboratory at the Technical University.
Among the finalists was also Ivan Angelov, a student at the Technical University of Sofia, with the humanoid robot Neuron, who, however, failed to demonstrate his skills at the final.
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The jury met for two days and decided after a runoff that the prize and the award of 15,000 euros would be shared by the authors of the projects SolarBlinds - a new generation of intelligent external blinds with built-in photovoltaic cells, and Academy for Personal Development - cognitive development through play, a digital trainer Hram Light.
The host of the competition was the current winner of the "Entrepreneur in Science" award, Eng. Tsvetomir Gachev. A total of 13 finalists were admitted to the final of the competition. It took place on December 17, and at the event, twelve of the finalists presented their projects to the mentors and lecturers acting as the jury, as well as guests - business angels and investors.
Students from the Technical University of Sofia, Alexander Kolchev and Ivian Stoyanov (SolarBlinds), and the university's doctoral student Theodor Ybkov (Academy for Personal Development through Hram Light), won the trust of the jury, composed of the program's lecturers and mentors. With their success, the award in the competition remains at the university for the third consecutive year.
Alexander Kolchev and Ivian Stoyanov presented a prototype of the SolarBlinds external blinds at the final and demonstrated the qualities of the nano-coating, which will ensure high efficiency. During the presentation of the project, it became clear that the team is preparing patents for product components, to which there is already customer interest.
Hram Light is a video game with neurofeedback. This is a technology that "listens" to what is happening in your brain while you play and changes the game according to changes in you, according to its author Theodor Ybkov. The goal is to develop cognitive and sensorimotor skills, such as reacting to unpredictable stimuli, speed of visual information processing, time perception, fine motor skills, and sensorimotor rhythm. According to Ybkov, sensorimotor rhythm is a poorly studied phenomenon, often associated with a state of rest. The ability of a person to freely activate sensorimotor rhythm would be beneficial in everyday life and in professional development, especially for specialists such as surgeons, firefighters, pilots, and others, the team believes. The creator of the idea for the Academy for Personal Development, Ybkov, showed an electroencephalograph (EEG) device that connects to Hram Light to measure brain activity. For demonstrations, the jury was invited to a laboratory at the Technical University.
Among the finalists was also Ivan Angelov, a student at the Technical University of Sofia, with the humanoid robot Neuron, who, however, failed to demonstrate his skills at the final.
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