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November 27, 2024

Boeing Innovation Challenge brings 91探花student teams together around sustainability issues

Airplane makes a turn through a cloudThe inaugural 2024 Boeing Innovation Challenge featured students teams across all three 91探花 campuses working together to develop technology proposals and business cases that integrated artificial intelligence and machine learning with one of the six goals highlighted in the 鈥2023 Boeing Sustainability Report, Innovation & Clean Tech.鈥

The challenge began in April with information sessions, giving teams a month to register before the competition鈥檚 topic of sustainability was released on May 6. Following this announcement, each team had a week to submit its proposal and prepare for virtual Pitch Day presentations.

91探花Bothell received 21 team proposals, with the winning team, 鈥淔uture Boeing Interns,鈥 pitching a product that would increase the fuel efficiency of commercial aircraft fleets.