PENN TECHNOLOGIES, YOUR IDEAS

Penn Engineers have created some of today’s most amazing new technologies. This competition offers the chance to envision how these technologies might shape our lives tomorrow.

About Y-Prize Competition

The Y-Prize is a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best applications for an emerging technology.

Y-Prize Winners: Equimeter

Congratulations to the 2023 winners!
Team Members: Advait Thaploo, Ujjayi Pamidigantam, Parthiv Patel

Last Years Winners

2023 Finalists

2022-2023 Y-Prize Winners:
Equimeter
Other 2021-2022
Y-Prize Finalists

About the Competition

The Y-Prize is a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best applications for an emerging technology.

How It Works

Submission Guidelines

Submit Your Proposal

History of the Y-Prize

Past Y-Prize Winners

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About the Technologies

2022-2023 Technologies

Solar Powered Aerial Vehicles

Using only sunlight to create lift force, these aerial vehicles can levitate without any moving parts, even at altitudes where the air is too thin for airplanes and balloons.

2022-2023 Technologies

Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Blending physics and AI, these neural networks open the path to learning functional relationships between the excitation and the response of a system, even when those cannot be directly measured. 

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