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COURTESY OF TEAM POLAIR The team of undergraduates designed their winning face mask with help from the Whiting School of Engineering and industry sponsors. Team Polair, a Hopkins team of 25 undergraduate Biomedical Engineering students, took runner-up in the XPRIZE Next-Gen Mask Challenge, winning $250,000 for the design of a clear, adaptable face mask. The four-month international contest, sponsored by California nonprofit organization XPRIZE, challenged participants to design face masks that are user-friendly and safe for the environment. For months, the team worked on developing their prot...

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 reimag...

December 23, 2020 finance & economy 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 se...

socaltech.com Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, the nonprofit which uses prizes to encourage the development of solutions to some of the world's biggest challenges, says it has awarded prizes for a challenge it has been running to develop next generation masks, which it kicked off shortly after the issues with masks came to light with the pandemic. According to the nonprofit, it has awarded $500,000 to the top team in the challenge, Luminosity Lab, which is developing a mask which uses a "bifurcaterizd filtration chamber". The top team was founded by five students out of Arizona State University--i...