Innovation Week 2023 officially kicked off at the Medical University of South Carolina, headlined by the Charleston Division’s Shark Tank event that saw researchers and faculty circling the tank for a chance to win $15,000 in funding. However, a select group of students decided to get a bite of that funding as well.
On Monday, April 24, nine students in six groups competed in their own version of MUSC’s Shark Tank, pitching to three faculty and staff members in a student pitch competition that would see the winning group take home a prize of $2,500 to invest in its own project. The competition, held in person for the first time, was hosted by the Office of Innovation and the Student Innovation Ambassadors Program, which falls under MUSC Libraries. The program is designed to encourage talented student innovators to create solutions to health care-related…