UPstart, the business incubator at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer, is running a mobile application development contest known as the AppItUP Challenge. Each year, students, faculty and staff are encourage to submit their ideas for apps, which are then judged by a panel of venture capital partners. The top ten ideas then go on to a public event, where development partners bid for the opportunity to turn the ideas into functional prototypes. This year's AppItUP Challenge yielded 185 ideas across 11 of Penn's 12 schools. The finalists represent The Perelman School of Medicine, the Wharton School, the School of Nursing and the School of Design.
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