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2025 Nittany AI Challenge Results

MVP Phase Winners

Congratulations to the following teams, which have been awarded funding in the final phase of the 2025 Nittany AI Challenge.

Read about the winners

PooPal team members pose with their winning check.

$5,500 Winner: PooPal

PooPal provides an automated, privacy-focused solution for stool monitoring and analysis.

Team Members:

  • Jared Daniel, College of Engineering, Penn State World Campus
  • Alysse Deterville, College of Engineering, Penn State World Campus
SlideSmart team poses with their winning check.

$3,500 Winner: SlideSmart

SlideSmart is a software tool that allows users to upload PowerPoint presentations and PDFs to automatically generate study guides.

Team Members:

  • Jace Anderson, College of Engineering
  • Brayden Pettigrew, College of Engineering
  • Will Wunsch, College of Agricultural Sciences and College of Engineering
Prognosis team posing with their winning check

$2,500 Winner: Prognosis

Prognosis is a platform designed to predict dengue outbreaks using satellite imagery, weather data and cloud patterns.

Team Members:

  • Imisha Juneja, College of Engineering
  • Aryan Mehta, College of Engineering
  • Suhani Nimje, College of Engineering
  • Abhimanyu Sareen, College of Engineering
EDUAI team posing with their check

$2,000 Winner: EDUAI

EDUAI is a hyper-personalized interactive educative assistant designed to optimize how students learn, connect and achieve their goals; team members included Divyam Arora, Stephanie Bowles, Keshav Khandelwal, Julia Lenge and Mantavya Mahajan.

  • Divyam Arora, College of Information Sciences and Technology
  • Stephanie Bowles, College of Education
  • Keshav Khandelwal, College of Engineering
  • Julia Lenge, College of Engineering
  • Mantavya Mahajan, College of Engineering, Eberly College of Science
Academic Compass team posing with their check

$2,000 Winner

Academic Compass, which aims to support undecided undergraduate students in discovering potential majors.

Team Members:

  • Xiaozheng Dai, College of the Liberal Arts
  • Zimeng Shao, College of the Liberal Arts