The Independent Variable - Matt Haugland


Friday, September 01, 2006

I'm going to Washington!!

Two very exciting things happened today. One was a call from Ohio, the other was an email from Tokyo.

I found out that I was selected as one of 11 finalists in the National Collegiate Inventors Competition. I get an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington D.C. in October for the final round of judging. First prize is $25,000 and second is $15,000. A publicist will be contacting me next week for an interview. I'm so excited!!! Even if I don't win a major prize, I'm totally thrilled just to be a finalist!

On a related note, the proposal to test my invetion in Japan was recently accepted and I began the project today. If that is successful (i.e., it forecasts nighttime temperatures in Japan better than the current state-of-the-art), I won't even be able to express how excited I'll be. It'll be at least 3 or 4 weeks before I'll know for sure.

October will be a very interesting month!

7 Comments:

At 9:33 AM, Blogger nellie said...

Congratulations, Matt! That is extremely exciting. Keep up the great work.

 
At 11:52 AM, Blogger MissDe said...

Matt, congratulations! The trip to DC sounds like a lot of fun. It'll be great to meet all those other inventors, I'm sure. And actually using your invention in Japan, that's amazing.

 
At 12:28 PM, Anonymous Marcian!!! said...

Yay for October!!!!

 
At 12:29 PM, Anonymous Marcian!!! said...

Yay for October!!!!

 
At 2:48 PM, Anonymous Jamie said...

Congratulations! I already said that on myspace... lol.. but Im so proud that I'm saying it twice... or three times... CONGRATULATIONS!

 
At 4:10 PM, Anonymous Jason said...

I am so happy for you. Dont forget us little folks when you become right lol. I am seriously very happy for you, and I am glad to see you are using your intellegence to help, or putting it to good use.

 
At 2:22 PM, Blogger DaveyL said...

Hey Matt,

I saw a little blurb about your nighttime temp experiments in the BAMS mag, and ran into your site while exploring further. Good luck with your company.

PS - nice RMYoung in the blog header background...thats nerdy sweetness!

 

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