{"id":1348,"date":"2020-05-16T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2025-06-17T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:04:16","slug":"nrgs-aquagga-wins-2020-alaska-airlines-environmental-innovation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/2020\/05\/16\/nrgs-aquagga-wins-2020-alaska-airlines-environmental-innovation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"NRG&#8217;s Aquagga Wins 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/foster.uw.edu\/centers\/buerk-ctr-entrepreneurship\/entrepreneurship-competitions\/eic\/\">Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC)<\/a>, hosted by the UW Foster School\u2019s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.foster.uw.edu\/2020-virtual-environmental-innovation-challenge\/\">named<\/a> Aquagga, co-founded by Brian Pinkard of UW Mechanical Engineering (ME) Novosselov Research Group and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), as $15,000 Alaska Airlines Grand Prize winners, extending the ME department\u2019s and specially the Novosselov Research Group streak to two years in a row.<\/p>\n<p>In a competition that was held completely virtually and included a strong showing from ME with four teams named as finalists, Aquagga\u2019s patented technology for destroying toxic and hard-to-treat PFAS chemicals wowed judges and earned them both the grand prize and the $1,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcil.uw.edu\/\">UW Grand Challenges Impact Lab<\/a> domestic prize.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"break-words\">More Information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.me.washington.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/24\/environmental-innovation-winner-aquagga\">here!<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC), hosted by the UW Foster School\u2019s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, named Aquagga, co-founded by Brian Pinkard of UW Mechanical Engineering (ME) Novosselov Research Group and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), as $15,000 Alaska Airlines Grand Prize winners, extending the ME department\u2019s and specially the Novosselov Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competition","category-milestones","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}