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Funding from The Dvorak Family supported the first place winner of the Dvorak Energy Innovation Prize, one of two prizes awarded as part of the Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge, a student competition for new, innovative, and entrepreneurial energy technologies and approaches to global sustainability.
The Global Stewards Society once again supported the second prize, The Global Stewards Sustainability Prize established by the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. This event had additional sponsorship from the student group Energy Hub.
Funding from Madison Gas & Electric supported WiscWind, an interdisciplinary team of UW–Madison undergraduates that competed in the 2016 U.S. Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition.
We are committed to providing a public forum in which to learn about and discuss energy challenges. Your participation and engagement in our work helps us make good on the Wisconsin Idea and improve people’s lives well beyond the classroom. For every conversation you had about energy, every energy seminar you attended, every WEI research article you shared or tweeted, thank you.
Thank you once again for moving forward in energy with us.