Nine organizations, businesses and people were recognized Tuesday night as the latest class of winners of the InnoVision Awards.
The InnoVision Awards Program, founded by Deloitte in 1999 and presented by McNair Law Firm, recognizes advancement of technology in South Carolina. Doug Kim, shareholder with the McNair Law Firm and the chairman of the InnoVision Advisory Board, presented the awards at the 16th Annual InnoVision Awards Celebration at the TD Convention Center in Greenville.
ISI Technology, headquartered in Charleston, received the Technology Development Award for developing the world’s first fully electronic liquid heating technology, “redefining how the world heats and uses water,” said InnoVision.
The College of Charleston earned the Technology Application Award, sponsored by Immedion LLC, for using a newly released consumer digital camera, Lytro, to generate 3-D images for clinical imaging of cancer growths in severely underserved regions of the world.
Furman University received the Hall of Fame Award, “an accomplishment that is hard-earned and rarely awarded by the judges,” said InnoVision. The award, the third Furman has received in the awards’ 16-year history, recognizes the school’s continued contributions in the Innovation of Education category
Furman University also received InnoVision’s Community Service Award for its collaborative project with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Department and other departments within Furman University. The team is employing the use of drones to study the correlation between streetlight illumination and crime in the New Washington and Poe Mills neighborhoods.
ActivEd received the Innovation in Education Award for developing accessible products and programs to foster learning and promote healthy lifestyles through movement and physical activity.
MeadWestvaco, through its Specialty Chemical Division, has advanced the use of activated carbon in the on-board storage of natural gas for all classes of motor vehicles. The firm was the recipient of the Sustainability Award.
Recovr LLC was one winner of the Small Enterprise Award. Recovr’s product, “Duck Duck Punch,” is a game developed between Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina to aid in post-stroke upper extremity neurorehabilitation.
VRM Labs, another winner of the Small Enterprise Award, developed a proprietary method for extraction of antioxidants from animal blood, which is broadly available as an inexpensive byproduct of the animal processing industry.
Martin Lap Yin Li, a student in the Discovery Science & Math Magnet Program at Spring Valley High School, won the Young Innovator Award. He combined a mechanical bathroom scale with a light-producing spin top to create a piezoelectric power generator, providing a reliable 12-volt step power source for about $100.
Dr. Larry Gluck won the Dr. Charles Townes Individual Lifetime Achievement Award, for his nearly 30 years of work in improving cancer care delivery.
Senior Chief Thom Shea, former Navy SEAL and the author of “Unbreakable: A Navy SEAL’S Way of Life,” was the keynote speaker for the evening’s celebration. More information on the InnoVision Awards is available at innovisionawards.org.
