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
Congratulations to the 2022
Y-Prize winning team:
Ossum Technologies Team!
Ananya Dewan, Hoang Le,
Shiva Teerdhala, Karan Shah, Savan Patel
Upcoming Events
November 3, 2022
Creating A Pitch
With Prof. Babin
Thursday, November 3, 2022,
5:00 p.m. ET
December 5, 2022
Finalists Announced
Week of December 5, 2022,
Finalists notified via email
February 6, 2023
Grand Finale
Monday, February 6, 2023, In Person Event
2022 Finalists
2021-2022 Y-Prize Winners:
Ossum Technologies
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
Videos
About the Technologies
Coming soon! We’re back on the road this summer and stopping in a few cities for in-person events. Dates and times are being finalized for the following locatoins
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.
