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Amped five alternative4/7/2024 Although the students did not win the prize in the final round, the prototype, Nexus Buoy, generated interest from potential investors and industry representatives who wished to see the prototype developed further. The team excelled through two rounds of the competition. Seniors Aaron Ellig of Kennewick, Andrew Wells of Mukilteo and junior Carolyn Wise of Northfield, Minn., who collectively call themselves “Amped Aquatics,” went up against 31 other teams in the UW competition that challenges students to design and develop a solution to an environmental problem and produce a prototype and business pitch that demonstrates the market opportunity for a chance to win $10,000. The device converts wave energy into electricity and could be a promising money-saving alternative to burning fossil fuels as an energy source in coastal communities. A team of three students in Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment competed in the University of Washington Environmental Innovation Challenge at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall on March 29, where they demonstrated their self-designed prototype of a renewable energy technology, called Nexus Buoy.
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