Team ERAscience is once again honored to partner with the brilliant team at UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI at UCLA) on Nanovation Competition, a three month long Shark Tank like competition for high school students. Teams from 11 Los Angeles-area high schools each developed and pitched their ideas for science-based product concepts presented at the finals. The entries were reviewed by a jury of Los Angeles venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, along with UCLA faculty members and ERAscience.

The first place team earned $2,000 worth of science classroom supplies for its winning proposal: dissolvable contact lenses that use pharmacosomes — molecules that act as a drug delivery system — for patients to use after Lasik surgery.

Nanovation was a dream concept that’s now a reality and is revealing many great young science minds!

Huge congrats once again to the winning teams!