{"id":24251,"date":"2025-05-12T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=24251"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:11:09","slug":"east-stroudsburg-university-student-wins-wild-card-award-at-23rd-annual-tecbridge-business-plan-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/east-stroudsburg-university-student-wins-wild-card-award-at-23rd-annual-tecbridge-business-plan-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"East Stroudsburg University Student Wins Wild Card Award at 23rd Annual tecBRIDGE Business Plan Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, East Stroudsburg University senior Emma Beaston, a psychology major from Harrisburg, Pa., was a Collegiate Division finalist and tied for the Wild Card Award at the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual tecBRIDGE Business Plan Competition. Beaston won $2,500 for her company, NeuroView.<\/p>\n<p>NeuroView advances sports safety through innovative concussion detection using smart eyewear technology. The NeuroView glasses pair with a mobile app to deliver real-time, data-driven concussion assessments.<\/p>\n<p>The annual awards event, celebrating entrepreneurship and innovation among high school students, collegiate teams, and early-stage entrepreneurs from Northeastern Pennsylvania, took place at the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Wild Card Winners are chosen exclusively by the audience through \u201ctecBUCKS\u201d votes. Beaston tied with Hunter Wesolowski, a Misericordia University student who co-founded Hunting Positivity, an AI-driven social platform that promotes uplifting content. The two wild card winners each received $2,500.<\/p>\n<p>ESU students have a strong record of achievement at tecBRIDGE competitions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous tecBRIDGE Collegiate Division Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2024 \u2013 Stelios Melekos \u201924, founder and CEO of Stack Tackle, LLC<\/li>\n<li>2020 \u2013 Erik Diemer \u201919, founder and CEO of Mite Fight<\/li>\n<li>2019 \u2013 Zach Waldman \u201919, CEO, and Nick Neely \u201919, CTO, co-founders of Falchion Systems Co.<\/li>\n<li>2017 \u2013 Blaise Delfino \u201914 M\u201916, founder of Fader Plugs LLC<\/li>\n<li>2014 \u2013 Jonathan Weber \u201914, founder of TickCheck Tick Testing<\/li>\n<li>2006 \u2013 Brian Pedone \u201905 and Michael Moynihan III \u201906 M\u201908, founders of Grad Techs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Previous Wild Card Winner:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2024 \u2013 Stelios Melekos \u201924, founder and CEO of Stack Tackle, LLC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details about the 23rd Annual tecBRIDGE Business Plan Competition, contact Michael Moreno, manager, Entrepreneurial Leadership Center by calling (570) 422-7995 or email <a href=\"mailto:mmoreno4@esu.edu\">mmoreno4@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, ESU senior Emma Beaston, a psychology major from Harrisburg, Pa., was a Collegiate Division finalist and tied for the Wild Card Award at the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual tecBRIDGE Business Plan Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":24254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24255,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24251\/revisions\/24255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}