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Montana Team at Sunburst Sensors Takes Home Both Top Prizes and $1.5 Million In $2 Million Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE

Sunburst Sensors Wins $1.5 Million in Prizes
for their Breakthrough Ocean pH Sensors

Congratulations to the first place winner of the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE http://www.xprize.org/ , team Sunburst Sensors http://www.sunburstsensors.com/ ! Especially impressive because they come from Montana! They had to import ocean water!

We’re proud of the accomplishments of all the teams who competed in this prize, and we look forward to the change your technologies will bring to the greater understanding and preservation of the world’s oceans.

XPRIZE (http://www.xprize.org) and Wendy Schmidt announced the winners of the $2M Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE, a global competition to incentivize breakthroughs in pH sensor technology to accurately and affordably measure the acidification of our oceans, in a ceremony co-hosted by Foreign Affairs. Sunburst Sensors, a team of chemists and engineers from Montana, took home both Grand Prizes, a $750,000 Accuracy Grand Prize (based on performance) and a $750,000 Affordability Grand Prize (based on cost and usability).

Sunburst Sensors, led by CEO James Beck, is a Missoula, Montana-based small business focused on the development of chemical sensors for marine and freshwater applications. Sunburst Sensors successfully iterated upon their previously developed commercial sensors to create two new breakthrough sensors: the i-SAMI (“i” for inexpensive) and the t-SAMI (“t” for titanium), which won the Affordability Prize and the Accuracy Prize, respectively.

http://oceanhealth.xprize.org/press-release/montana-team-takes-home-both-top-prizes-2-million-wendy-schmidt-ocean

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