Community College Innovation Challenge

AACC is pleased to announce that applications will open for the 2023 Community College Innovation Challenge on January 17, 2023, with a submission deadline of March 30, 2023. To learn more and to apply, please visit www.aaccinnovationchallenge.com or contact ccic@aacc.nche.edu .

The CCIC is led by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF). It is a national competition where community college student teams, working with a faculty or administrator mentor, use science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to innovate solutions to real-world problems; participate in... Read more

Congratulations to the Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) team from Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend. This is the second time Ivy Tech students have made it to the finals in the CCIC. The first time was in 2015 with Betadataquantadata, a hand-held biosensor for coliphage.

Teams from InnovATEBIO programs have done well in this competition before with teams from Del Mar College and Los Angeles Mission College making it to the finals.

This year's Team Members: Pamela Arenas, Rena Doss, Josef... Read more

Congratulations to Bio-Link member Los Angeles Mission College for being named a top-ten finalist in the National Science Foundation’s fourth annual Community College Innovation Challenge ! The college’s team presented their proposal for using wastewater to generate electricity throughout Los Angeles. Biotechnology students Thibault Angouillant, Karla Martinez Hurtado, Mary Abrams, Juan Sosa Matute, as well as faculty mentor, Stephen Brown, PhD., are team members. Their project uses bacteria in a microbial fuel cell configuration to both treat wastewater and produce energy.

The Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) is a prestigious, two-stage competition... Read more