<br>Just passing this on...<br><br>Mike Berg<br>ACM Secretary<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Energy Initiative</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:the.energy.initiative@gmail.com">the.energy.initiative@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:32 PM<br>Subject: [acm-officers] Clean Energy Challenge 2013<br>To: <br><br><br><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear UIC Faculty, Staff, and Students,<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div><br></div><div>Please see below for an opportunity offered by the Clean Energy Trust, a partner with UIC on many activities and programs.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border-style:none;padding:0px"><div><p><i>While many graduate students are concerned about finding jobs when they finish their degrees, my partners and I will leave school having built a scalable, sustainable clean energy business. Our company, <a href="http://numat-tech.com/" target="_blank">NuMat Technologies</a>, is comprised of applied scientists, MBA candidates and law students who met and strategized at Northwestern University. </i><i> </i></p>
</div><div><p><i>The university environment is a great incubator because it brings together bright people from different disciplines, each of which was integral to building this company. Every member of our leadership team had a vision for our clean energy company and their disparate skills came together to bring cutting-edge research out the laboratory and—soon—into the marketplace.</i></p>
</div><div><p><i>NuMat vetted and proved its business model at the 2012 <a href="http://www.cleanenergytrust.org/events/about-the-challenge/" target="_blank">Clean Energy Challenge</a>, a competition that offered the opportunity to be tested by leaders in the industry. The <a href="http://www.cleanenergytrust.org/events/about-the-challenge/" target="_blank">Clean Energy Trust</a>, the business accelerator that developed the competition, provided mentoring and advice that helped us hone and present the business plan in a way that resonated with investors and industry leaders. NuMat ultimately won the Challenge and its $100,000 prize, as well as the <a href="http://techportal.eere.energy.gov/commercialization/natlbizplan.html" target="_blank">Department of Energy’s National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition</a>.</i></p>
</div><div><p><i>In all, NuMat was awarded more than $1.25 million in prizes, is now hiring and working with the <a href="http://www.gastechnology.org/webroot/app/xn/xd6801.html?it=enweb%26xd=gtihome.xml" target="_blank">Gas Technology Institute</a> to identify and synthesize natural-gas storage.</i></p>
</div><div><p><i>Missouri’s university environment is fertile territory for ambitious academics to find their niche in the innovation economy. Applications are now being accepted for the 2013 Clean Energy Challenge. I encourage every student with a good idea for a clean energy business to apply and take the first step in forging their own future.</i></p>
<p><i><br></i></p></div></blockquote></div><font color="#cc6600" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="4"><b>The Energy Initiative</b></font><div><div><font color="#666666" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">George W. Crabtree</font></div>
<div><font color="#666666" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Michael Blauvelt</font></div><div><font color="#666666" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Elizabeth Kocs</font></div><div><font color="#666666" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Thomas Lipsmeyer</font></div>
<div><font color="#666666" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Vera Setiawan</font></div></div><div><font color="#666666" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">University of Illinois at Chicago</font></div>
<div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="tel:%28312%29%20996-2141" value="+13129962141" target="_blank">(312) 996-2141</a></font></div><br>
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