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March 25, 2021

Concordia University: Foxconn announces Concordia team among Round 2 competition winners

Concordia University: Foxconn announces Concordia team among Round 2 competition winners

by Laura Kaiser / Monday, 11 March 2019 / Published in Smart Cities - Smart Futures

A Concordia University Wisconsin team has advanced to the final round of Foxconn’s statewide Smart Cities—Smart Futures competition.


CUW nursing staff member Mary Dittmar, Undergraduate Nursing Program Chair Dawn Kuerschner, and sophomore computer science students Austin Winkler and Blaine Andrada are among the Wisconsin winners to advance to the third round of the competition.

The Concordia team submitted an app called Virtual Innovation to Advance Learning (VITAL). VITAL is a supplemental teaching tool to help students virtually and safely learn the steps of a skill before they participate in hands-on practice.

The team has also been accepted to the National Science Foundation I-Corps program, which prepares scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the university laboratory and accelerates the economic and societal benefits of NSF-funded, basic-research projects that are ready to move toward commercialization.

Foxconn awarded the VITAL team $1,500 for their second-round win. Winners of the final round are expected to be announced in early May.

Launched in August, Smart Cities—Smart Futures asked students, faculty, and staff from Wisconsin’s higher education institutions to submit their innovative solutions for developing smart, connected cities. In total, Foxconn pledged up to $1 million over the next three years to the competition.

Read the blog here.

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