The ERC Program is hosting a “Perfect Pitch” competition. The COMPETITION is open only to ERC undergraduates, Masters, and PhD students, all competing for a first-place $5,000 cash prize. Each ERC holds an internal competition in order to select one winner to send to the finals at the ERC Program biennial meeting, where an overall winner and two runners-up are chosen by a distinguished panel of judges from industry and the venture capital world.

NASCENT students will give 90-second single slide presentations proposing a significant problem and its nanotechnology related solution while answering the following three questions in 90 seconds — what real-life problem their research addressed, how they solved it in a unique way, and what impact it would have for society and in achieving their Center’s mission. Through this competition, they learn a succinct way of talking about their research in the context of societal needs and the broader impact of their success.