ASU students win $500,000 top prize in mask contest In the ASU Luminosity Lab team s bifurcated Floemask design, exhaled air is directed out the filter, rather than out of the top of the mask preventing glasses from getting fogged up. (Source: ASU website) By Shelby Trahan | December 24, 2020 at 10:14 AM MST - Updated December 24 at 10:14 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Innovation at its finest. A team of Arizona State University students just won $500,000 for designing a new and improved face mask.
According to their website, the XPRIZE Next-Gen Mask Challenge “aims to reimagine protective face masks used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by making them more comfortable, functional, accessible, and even stylish.”
XPRIZE Announces Winners of Million Dollar Next-Gen Mask Challenge to Reveal the Next Generation of Face Masks Following a Virtual Pitch Slam
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ASU Luminosity Lab team wins face mask challenge and $500,000 prize
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XPRIZE Announces Winners of Million Dollar Next-Gen Mask Challenge to Reveal the Next Generation of Face Masks Following a Virtual Pitch Slam
XPRIZE, a nonprofit organization that uses global competitions to crowdsource solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges, is pleased to announce that, following last week’s pitch slam, Luminosity Lab from the United States has been named the grand prize winner of the organization’s Next-Gen Mask Challenge. Selected by the competition’s panel of judges, which included a diverse set of industry professionals and executives, Luminosity Lab was chosen from the other finalists for their mask’s design, x-factor of style, early assessments of accessibility and functionality. The winning team is student-led and developed the FloeMask, which uses a bifurcated filtration chamber to achieve filtration and breathability for use everyday and during exercise, diverting heat from