The Penn Compact in Action
Second to none
PennVention, the annual student invention competition, is the place for students to show off their very best inventive ideas. Now there’s a home for students’ second-tier ideas, too—ones they may not have the time or skills to completely develop. Less formal and faster paced than PennVention, the Weiss Tech House 2nd Best Idea Slam brings students together under one roof to let them collaborate and bounce ideas off one another.
For this year’s Slam, students across Penn submitted their second-best ideas via the Tech House site, and 10 teams were given three minutes each to present their concepts. Innovations included liquid travel packs to hold toiletries during air travel (pictured); a glove lined with green and red light-emitting diodes that would enable police to direct traffic in dark settings (it scored the judges' award); and a "Smart Sock," the winner of the audience award, that would redistribute pressure on sockets from prosthetics throughout the rest of the body.
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The Penn Compact
The Penn Compact embodies Penn's vision for making our University both a global leader in teaching, research, and professional practice, as well as a dynamic agent of social, economic, and civic progress.