Cade Museum Final Four

 

 

The Cade Museum for Creativity and Inventionis pleased to announce the Final Four contestants for the 5th Annual Cade Museum Prize of $50,000. Each year, this award is funded by the Community Foundation of North Central Florida and given to a Florida individual or company that is taking an original idea or product to market.

 

The four entries include a simple diagnostic test to detect ovarian cancer (Boca Raton), a mobile app that detects tagged items everywhere (Gainesville), a process that recovers and generates nutrients, energy, and water from wastes (Tampa), and software that can make 3D models of anything (Gainesville).  

 

Over 80 teams entered this year's competition.  The Final Four were selected by three successive panels of judges drawn from around the state and the country. All of the judges - over 30 in total - were entrepreneurs, inventors, or people familiar with emerging technologies.  

 

On May 8, the four teams will make live pitches to a new panel of three judges from outside the state. That evening, at a gala event presented by RTI Surgical in Gainesville's Santa Fe College's Fine Arts Hall, the Museum will announce which entry won the $50,000 prize.  Tickets for Prize Night are now on sale at cademuseumprize.org.

 

About the Cade Museum: In 2004, Dr. James Robert Cade and his family established the Cade Museum Foundation to design and build a museum in Gainesville in order to inspire creative thinking, future inventors, and early entrepreneurs.   A physician at the University of Florida (UF), Dr. Cade was best known as the leader of the research team that invented Gatorade for the UF football team in 1965.

 

The Cade Museum is scheduled to open in late 2015 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Gatorade's invention.  For more information, please visit our website, or contact Jennifer Denault at 352-219-7500.

 

(Final Four in alphabetical order by company)