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72 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I MARCH 2019 gest a place to find the answer. All the students needed was direction, and they were all over finding the solution. Problem solved. Sunstone sponsored Make It Matter—a com- petition focused on innovative prototypes that had significant social, personal, or environ- mental impacts. Teams had 24 hours to come up with an idea and bring their creation from design to prototype. Judging was tough because there were so many great ideas out there! We scrambled to deliver the judging rubric on time—a task made difficult by the number of amazing prototypes and teams that we wanted to recognize. In the end, the first-place winner for Sunstone's com- petition was a robot pipe crawler designed by Team 42+2 (Figure 3). Their prototype could crawl along pipes and detect cracks or other faults in the material. There were so many great submissions that at the last minute, we decided to award a sec- ond-place prize as well. This prize went to Sam Roquitte and Maxwell Stigman from Geor- gia Institute of Technology for their eL safety- enhancing adaptive lighting system for electric skateboards (Figure 4). Here are some other great projects that really impressed us: • CocoGogo, a hand-cranked coconut shredder • Hydrophobe unmanned surface vehicle (USV) for filtering and cleaning oil spills • Beam Print from Team 46 for laser-cutting without friction By the end of MakeHarvard 2019, the entire Sunstone team was exhausted but overjoyed by the success of the event. We saw numer- ous prototypes and met so many enthusias- tic students. We also gave away all of our "schwag"—Sunstone memory sticks, note- books, and pens disappeared like smoke in a tornado! Overall, it was just a great event. We are already busy discussing next year's Make- Harvard makeathon and how we can help make it better. DESIGN007 An expanded version of this column will appear in the April issue of PCB007 Magazine. Bob Tise and Dave Baker are engineers at Sunstone Circuits. To read past columns or contact Tise and Baker, click here. Figure 3: Sunstone's first-place winner, Team 42+2. Figure 4: Sunstone's second-place winners, Sam Roquitte (top) and Maxwell Stigman (bottom). Bob Tise Dave Baker