Tue, May 5, 2026

11 AM – 1 PM CDT (GMT-5)

MSC Great Hall

Harvey Hall, basement (75), Menomonie, Wisc 54751, United States

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WiSys Quick Pitch is a research-focused 3-minute pitch competition open to all academic disciplines, undergraduate and graduate students. The winner, selected by a panel of judges, wins a cash prize and moves on to a Quick Pitch State Final this summer. There will be 11 pitches involving 13 students. They are listed below:

1. Srujana Mallu – Automated Vertical Storage and Inventory Optimization

2. Arsalan Khan Jadoon – Systems Architecture for End-to-End Autonomous Fast-Food Operations

3. Premanvitha Salla – Development of cherry-tamarind 'swicy' hot sauce

4. Caldrida Pearl D Souza – Comparative Analysis of Meltability and Stretchability in Traditional and Plant-Based Cheeses

5. Sai Prathyusha Neelam – Effect of Collagen Infusion on the Physicochemical and Textural

6. Chloe Ferguson – User experience design for painting optimization constraints onto a 3D model

7. Sreeja Samala – Pea Starch to Food Packaging: Replacing Plastic with Biodegradable Films

8. Anushka Patil – Gut microbial effects on trophallaxis in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

9. Mukundeshwari Yampalla, Chuhan Yu, & Junmeng Zhang – Antimicrobial Effect of Kombucha and SCOBY on Fresh Chicken Meat

10. Reese Hufnagel – The Sky is Falling: Accelerating Demise During Uncontrolled Reentry of Space Debris

11. Chaitra Sawant – Potato Protein Isolate for early stage GLP-1 users

Where

MSC Great Hall

Harvey Hall, basement (75), Menomonie, Wisc 54751, United States

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