Quantum technology is poised to transform industries across the globe. On Nov. 1, teams of students from throughout the region demonstrated just how profound the impact will be across a large spectrum.<\/p>\n
Quantum UP!, a hackathon designed specifically for students in non-STEM fields, awarded $9,000 in prizes to teams that rose to challenges devised by leading companies. All winning teams presented on their various topics during an event held at UConn\u2019s Graduate Business Learning Center in Hartford.<\/p>\n
QuantumCT presented the hackathon, bringing together teams of students representing college and universities across the region. UConn and Yale University are lead partners on QuantumCT, a public-private partnership established to advance Connecticut as the nation\u2019s top accelerator of quantum technology. Partners include government offices and agencies, industrial leaders, communities, and academics.<\/p>\n
While quantum technology has strong connotations with fields such as engineering and physics, applications can be transformative across a myriad of other industries and disciplines. Quantum UP! explored those fields, presenting student teams with challenges relating to business, law, healthcare, and more.<\/p>\n
Several UConn students were members of the winning teams. Other winners represented Ivy League schools such as Yale and Penn, as well as a strong showing from a team from Southern Connecticut State. Each winning team received prizes of $1,500.<\/p>\n
The following are the winners of the categories, as well as the companies that created the respective challenges.<\/p>\n
Department of Quantum Resources: Devlin Law Firm Quantum Disruption: The Hartford & Capgemini Quantum Ethics: King & Spalding Quantum Lockdown: Travelers Quantum Power: Google Quantum | AI Quantum Vision: GE HealthCare Competition for non-STEM majors awards thousands in prize money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":221096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076,2364],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2381],"class_list":["post-221088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-technology-commercialization"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 04:53:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221107,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221088\/revisions\/221107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/221096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221088"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=221088"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=221088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Adam Skarre, UConn Storrs
\nJoyce Tong, UConn Storrs
\nJoel Sarpong, UConn Storrs<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Tianrui Li, Yale University
\nSander Cohen-Jones, Yale University
\nJohn-Paul Webster, Yale University
\nUkpogu Lucy Damachi, Yale University<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Crossby Dessallines, Southern Connecticut State University
\nJose Daniel Mandujano, Southern Connecticut State University<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Eva-LaRue Barber, UConn Storrs
\nRiver Graniss, UConn Storrs<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Ngaatendwe Miranda Manyika \u2013 University of Pennsylvania
\nPhil Kazemba \u2013 Yale University
\nAnopamufaro Manyika \u2013 UConn Storrs<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Joshua Lee \u2013 UConn School of Medicine
\nAshley Tucker \u2013 UConn School of Medicine
\nAaron Kiel \u2013 UConn School of Medicine
\nJacob Brady \u2013 UConn School of Medicine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"