UAF ARCTIC INNOVATION COMPETITION.

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The University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Management awarded $30,000 in cash prizes on October 21 after the final round of presentations in the 2017 Arctic Innovation Competition.

The competition, now in its ninth year, invites innovators to propose new, feasible, and potentially profitable ideas for solving real-life problems and challenges.

The top prize of $10,000 in the main division was awarded to Piper Foster Wilder for 60Hertz Microgrids. The company is developing maintenance management software for microgrids, or small electricity networks, in remote Arctic communities.

With a record number of fifty-five junior division entries from youth ages thirteen to seventeen years--up from only five submissions last...