November 27, 2024
Boeing Innovation Challenge brings UW student teams together around sustainability issues
The inaugural 2024 Boeing Innovation Challenge featured students teams across all three University of Washington campuses working together to develop technology proposals and business cases that integrated artificial intelligence and machine learning with one of the six goals highlighted in the “2023 Boeing Sustainability Report, Innovation & Clean Tech.”
The challenge began in April with information sessions, giving teams a month to register before the competition’s topic of sustainability was released on May 6. Following this announcement, each team had a week to submit its proposal and prepare for virtual Pitch Day presentations.
UW Bothell received 21 team proposals, with the winning team, “Future Boeing Interns,” pitching a product that would increase the fuel efficiency of commercial aircraft fleets.