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The Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley (formerly the Intel®+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge) is where the best engineers and scientists present how they plan to make the world a better place through their innovations and entrepreneurial skills. The Intel Global Challenge partners with the best research institutions around the world and affiliates with regional business plan competitions to find the technologies and teams that can have the greatest impact. Participation in the Intel Global Challenge gets you, your technology and your institution onto the premier world stage for technology entrepreneurship.

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Team Forward from China won the 2011 Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley, but you get to vote for your favorite in the People's Choice Award. Read more >

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NEWS: Announcing the WINNER of the People's Choice Award for the 2011 Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley

Congratulations to ValleyFeed, the winner of the 2011 Intel Global Challenge People’s Choice Award! The winning team of student entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia and Lebanon received a $5,000 prize from the Intel Foundation.

NEWS: Announcing the WINNERS of the 2011 Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley

[video of the event will be available on this page on Tuesday, November 22]

BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 11, 2011 – Forward, a team of student entrepreneurs from China, has won the 7th annual Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley (formerly the Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge), for creating Gaitu, a one-stop image processing platform that matches Chinese consumers with designers who add special effects, provide image-sharing services and turn edited photos into art or merchandise.

The Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley is a global business plan competition that encourages student entrepreneurs and rewards innovative ideas that have the potential to have a positive impact on society. The Intel Foundation will award a total of $100,000 in cash prizes, $50,000 of which went to Forward.

Second place and $20,000 was awarded to Maxygen-mobile DNA of Russia for inventing a low-cost, portable DNA test solution that can be used at the point of care to quickly identify thousands of infectious diseases, genetic predispositions and hereditary conditions. The $10,000 third-place prize went to NanoDiagX of Egypt, which used gold nanoparticles to develop a virus test that can detect Hepatitis C in less than an hour, and at one-tenth the cost of current commercial tests.

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Manav Subodh
Global Manager
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Corporate Affairs
Intel
Email: manav.subodh@intel.com

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