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My name is Deepak Aghor - “I believe that the solution to a problem lies in the problem itself”

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

My name is Sanchita Tewari  - “Become a winning Solver marked a significant step in my professional career and an important event of my life. This was the first time I received recognition and reward from an international authority and it was a life changing experience for me and my family.”

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

My name is John Davis - “I came up with a method to break the viscous shear of crude oil under cold weather conditions helping to clean up a 20 year old oil spill from the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster.”

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

My name is Hannah Safford - “I was first introduced to the concept of innovation challenges and prizes during my two-year fellowship in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) under the Obama administration.”

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

My name is Madhavi Muranjan - “There is no greater thrill in the “chase”, the mystery solving and the detective work than you get out of the challenges mother nature puts out for us all, and that feeling of solving her challenges I wouldn’t trade for anything else.”

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

My name is Michael Kardauskas - “My mother bought us a set of children’s encyclopaedias, which explained everything from photosynthesis to how the pyramids might have been built, and my father subscribed to Popular Science magazine, which touted all the latest inventions that might revolutionize the future – flying cars, etc.  I devoured both of them and thought the greatest possible career would be to be an inventor.”

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

My name is Seward Rutkove - “This challenge helped push me to improve upon our methods of data collection and to make our first handheld prototype device a reality”

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

My name is Ted Ground - “When working on solutions, solitude is important. Take walks in the woods, or on the beach. Take a bike ride. Spend a day in the library, alone. Reading books and remembering news articles and books that you have read, years ago, seems to help - a lot!”