The enthusiasm seems higher than ever before. Students have blown us away by presenting their – unprepared – pitch during the kick-off meeting, they’ve been chatting and speed dating with our partners as if it was an everyday job, and they’ve created their own business plans from scratch – well with a little help of our business panel. So we must say that we are very impressed with each and everyone of you!

Via the many chats that were started in the first two months of the Contest students have grabbed the chance to introduce themselves and their project to our partners. But it was only until the speed dates where they actually got to meet for the first time. Rounding off to about 170 speed dates, we feel this was a great success!
If you weren’t at the speed dates but do want to know what it was like, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hImY-Ky6obk&t= 

And now it’s time to announce who will get the chance to impress the partners, the grand jury, and the rest of the audience. It’s time to announce who made it to the top 20.
These projects and students will be battling for amazing opportunities and prizes during the final event on the 22^nd of May. Curious? Reserve your seat in the Blauwe Zaal and don’t miss this spectacular battle https://tuecontest.nl/finale

Let us just say that selecting 20 projects was not an easy task and if you don’t see the name of your project below, this still means that you are doing a great job and we would like to invite you to join us again next year!
For now: congratulations to the following contestants with your well-deserved spot in the final:

The projects are randomly ordered

Ideation
aWeare
Dare to ask
LES (Light Emitting Shirt)
MedDocx
Maps Untold
Mivo
The Second Brain
WHIZBOT

Prototyping
TIPO - Braille Smartphone Keyboard
Ratio
Brave
Chairgonomics
Kangaroo Glove
LABELEDBY.
PlaygroundVR
Plow

Student teams
Blue jay Eindhoven
Team SOLID
Team T.E.S.T
iGEM 2018

Finalists, please check your email to see which steps you’ll need to follow next! 
Good luck and see you soon!