{"id":68297,"date":"2015-10-06T19:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=68297"},"modified":"2015-10-06T19:06:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T19:06:21","slug":"innovators-of-america-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/10\/06\/innovators-of-america-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovators of America awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Young Entrepreneurs Association (ANJE) and Innovators of America (CAF Latin American Development Bank) have announced the winners of the first Innovators of America Dominican Republic-ANJE Awards. They received 249 entries from 15 provinces. The awards were presented at a ceremony held at the Central Bank auditorium in Santo Domingo on Thursday, 1 October 2015. <\/p>\n<p> ANJE president Biviana Riveiro Disla said that the initiative was aimed at highlighting the relationship between innovation and sustainable development and at encouraging local creativity and innovation. <\/p>\n<p> Innovators of America director Gabriel Sanchez Zinny stressed the quality of the competitors in the first contest and encouraged others to participate in the regional challenge in 2016. <\/p>\n<p> The winners in the Innovations category of RD$225,000 each are:<\/p>\n<p> Science and Technology: Paola Santana for MatterNet transportation system. <\/p>\n<p> Enterprise and Industry: Gian Luis Pereyra for Kikaboni Pita Chips.<\/p>\n<p> Social Development and Education: Alejandro Jose Garcia Morales for his Mathematical Multipliers, to coach students for the Mathematics Olympiads.<\/p>\n<p> Sustainability and Ecology: Andris Daneil Disla Cordero for an invention for washing and waxing a vehicle without using water.<\/p>\n<p> Winners in the category of innovative ideas, with awards of RD$45,000: <\/p>\n<p> Science and Technology: Ramon Correa for his mobile tourism unit, a low-cost lodging prototype.<\/p>\n<p> Social Development and Education: Friman Leandro Alcantara Diaz for his &#8220;My Blood Saves Lives&#8221; application.<\/p>\n<p> Sustainability and Ecology: Richard Ruiz Reyes for his Marine Farm for harvesting seaweed. <\/p>\n<p> Enterprise and Industry: Enmanuel Alcantara for his Korptest, a platform for psychological tests for small business to improve their staff recruitment<\/p>\n<p> Roniel Rafael Guzman Toribio&#8217;s Hub MakerSpace won the public choice award. <\/p>\n<p> Read more in Spanish:<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.anje.org\/app\/do\/pub_noticias_det.aspx?id=1028&#038;setTab=1<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/do.innovadoresdeamerica.org\/do\/<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EQ7qdN54Zt\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/2015\/economia\/8288881-premiacion-anje-innovadores-resalta-el-talento-de-los-dominicanos\/\">Premiaci\u00f3n ANJE-Innovadores resalta el talento de los dominicanos<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"&#171;Premiaci\u00f3n ANJE-Innovadores resalta el talento de los dominicanos&#187; &#8212; Acento\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/2015\/economia\/8288881-premiacion-anje-innovadores-resalta-el-talento-de-los-dominicanos\/embed\/#?secret=EQ7qdN54Zt\" data-secret=\"EQ7qdN54Zt\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Young Entrepreneurs Association (ANJE) and Innovators of America (CAF Latin American Development Bank) have announced the winners of the first Innovators of America Dominican Republic-ANJE Awards. They received 249 entries from 15 provinces. The awards were presented at a ceremony held at the Central Bank auditorium in Santo Domingo on Thursday, 1 October 2015. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/10\/06\/innovators-of-america-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[234,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}