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2025年4月8日

博彩平台的学生将代表25支大学生队伍参加本月晚些时候在明尼阿波利斯举行的全国商业推介大赛。

囊状态’s team will compete against students from campuses such as UC Berkeley and Harvard for $215,000 in cash prizes as part of e-Fest, a three-day event taking place April 24-26. 来自全国高校的200多支队伍报名参赛。

对于这些在学校和工作之间徘徊的学生来说，他们是崭露头角的企业家，入选决赛是一项令人印象深刻的成就。 For the University, it’s a recognition that is becoming more common, indicative of campus efforts to foster student innovation and hands-on learning.

“This is the third year we’ve had a team go to e-Fest,” said Cameron Law, executive director of the Carlsen Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. “They’re going to do awesome.”

The first team, SentrySight, formed last spring when Computer Science majors Ritchie Martinez, Gavin Garcia, Enrique De La Torre and Huy Dao, met at the Carlsen Center’s first Hackathon. 他们的博彩平台程序使用人工智能来检测枪支，获得了第一名。

“We want to use it to improve safety on campuses and businesses,” Dao said. “It would detect firearms and notify key personnel what’s going on to improve peace of mind and response time.”

这款博彩平台程序将与现有的摄像系统集成，使企业和学校更容易使用，也可以通知执法部门。

“I’m really stoked about being a finalist. 不仅仅是为了获奖，还为了能够走出州去认识其他正在创业的人。 I’m really excited for that.”

-- Gabriel Sigala, Business 政府 major

SentrySight团队在德克萨斯州乌瓦尔德发生悲惨的校园枪击事件后，受到了拯救生命的激励。 他们开发了一个基于公共领域图像的原型，该博彩平台程序已经拥有85%的准确率。 该团队希望，有了更多的资金来创建自己的数据集，他们可以将这一比例提高到95%。

After winning the Hackathon, SentrySight competed in 囊状态’s Innovation pitch competition before taking second place at the Sunstone CSU Startup Launch Pitch Competition and winning $31,000.

“By going through these competitions, we’re building credibility and slowly building our knowledge of the business side since all of us are Computer Science majors,” Martinez said. “It was very surprising to find out we’re finalists for e-Fest, but also exciting.”

除了SentrySight的四名学生外，萨克州立工商管理专业的Gabriel Sigala和七名加州大学戴维斯分校的学生一起加入了Splash Technologies团队。 该组织发明了一种测量住宅泳池中化学物质的设备。 Owners can use the Splash app to monitor their pool water, and if the chemistry isn’t right, they can press a button to find out how to fix the issue.

由Splash团队进行的一项调查显示，70%的游泳池所有者认为监测氯含量是拥有游泳池最困难的部分。 只有大约一半的人使用游泳池服务，每月的费用可能在130美元到150美元之间。

“I’m really stoked about being a finalist,” Sigala said. “不仅仅是为了获奖，还为了能够走出州去认识其他正在创业的人。 I’m really excited for that.”

In addition to e-Fest, Splash Technologies is also competing in the 萨克拉门托国王队充分利用竞争 for technology startups.

萨克拉门托地区的四支队伍正在争夺1万美元的奖金。 公众可以观看每支球队的30秒视频，并在网上投票。 The ads will also be shown at the Kings’ April 9 game against the Denver Nuggets, with voting ending at halftime.

“The Carlsen Center and professors at 萨克拉门托 State have been really supportive,” Sigala said. “I have definitely benefited from learning about starting a business in my classes and being able to apply them to something I’m passionate about.”