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Above: Professor Jin Montclare, Director of the Convergence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Institute<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Afterwards, four alumni of the summer I-Corps, summer and J-term startup Sprint supported by the CIE Institute came up to share their experiences about the p<\/span>rogram and their ventures. The panel consisted of Deniz Vurmas (Tandon, CBE PhD student) founder of \u00a0Digistrips a provider of digitized home use test for quick diagnosis of urinary tract infection, who participated in the 2018 Summer Startup Sprint, Daniela Blanco (Tandon, CBE PhD student) co-founder of Sunthetics, developer of an emission-free precursor for nylon, creating a platform for green reactions within the chemical industry, who is an alumni of the 2018 J-Sprint, Andrew Olsen (Tandon, CBE PhD student) co-founder of Brooklyn BioScience, which focuses on detoxifying pesticides in an environmentally friendly way and participant of the first 2017 Summer I-Corps, and Jonas Guenther (Tandon, MS Technology Management 2018) founder of We are the New Farmers, which is an urban farm growing sustainable produce for specialty markets lacking year-round local supply and alumni of the 2018 Summer Sprint. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Above (left to right): <\/span><\/i>Deniz Vurmaz (Digistrips), <\/span><\/i>Daniela Blanco (Sunthetics), Andrew Olsen (Brooklyn BioScience), <\/span><\/i>Jonas Guenther (We are the New Farmers)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Deniz Vurmaz of Digistrips discussed her goal to be a bridge between academia and industry. \u00a0She shared her experience working on renewable energy projects and was awarded the NYU Green Grant and an award from the American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE). \u00a0<\/span>Daniela Blanco of Sunthetics described her focus in the areas of electrochemistry and clean energy. \u00a0Her participation in the J-term Startup Sprint, 300K Competition, and InnoVention Competition helped her grow as an entrepreneur. \u00a0Andrew Olsen described how Brooklyn BioScience was focused on creating a low-cost and ecologically friendly enzyme for the remediation and detoxification of a class of common pesticides for farmers, vintners, and waste management companies. \u00a0After participating in the summer I-Corps program, his team received a PowerBridge New York award in the amount of $150,000. <\/span>Jonas Guenther of We are the New Farmers talked about how the startup got its start at NYU Tandon with a group of students in 2016. 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