Team 33 Buckets is comprised of mechanical engineering senior Paul Strong and four biomedical engineering students – team leader and senior Pankti Shah, senior Varendra Silva, senior Mark Huerta and junior Connor Wiegand. They will vie for the prizes of $50,000, $20,000 and $10,000, to be awarded to the first-, second- and third-place winners, respectively, at the Dell Challenge finals.
The team was formed through the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. It was one of eight EPICS teams that were among the 200 teams chosen in the spring as Dell Challenge semifinalists.