TREP EXPO

Ready to See Your Innovation Soar?

TREP EXPO is your first step. Embry-Riddle’s showcase of venture concepts is open to all Embry-Riddle students, faculty, staff and alumni. It offers expert guidance to enhance your entrepreneurial skills and chances for success. Join our aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs and turn your ideas into reality at the TREP EXPO!

Application Deadline: Oct. 4, 2024
Event Day: Nov. 21, 2024, 1 - 6 p.m.
Location: Student Union Event Center

Apply today!

• To participate in TREP EXPO '24, each applying team must submit a title, a list of team members (noting their status as student, faculty or alumni) and a brief abstract not to exceed 275 words.
• Include a valid email address (an ERAU email address is preferred) and degree program (if applicable).
• Choose your display option:
• Poster: We will print your poster and provide the easel if submitted by the deadline.
• Table: Power sources are limited and are on a first come, first served basis).

Please note: One-person teams may apply. Only one application per team member. In other words, your team member cannot also be on another team. So, pick your best venture concept. Not all applications will be selected.

Applications will be initially screened by a committee. Applications will be evaluated on three criteria:

• Commercial Viability: The likelihood the venture will be successful in the marketplace because it provides an elegant solution to a significant problem for which customers are willing to pay.
• Innovativeness: The venture proposes a novel, unique value proposition; a different and better way to solve the problem.
• General Interest: Is the venture in an interesting market space? Is it cool? Is it clever?

Accepted venture teams will be assigned into one of four groups:

• Aviation, Aerospace and Engineering
• Space Technology Repurposed
• Global Product and Services
• Veteran Entrepreneurs

Four distinct groups allow for teams of judges to spend adequate time with each venture team to render a valid judgment. The Judges Award for the three groups is exactly the same.

Sponsored by:

• Embry-Riddle Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• David B. O’Maley College of Business

Meet Our Partners

• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Aviation
• College of Engineering
• The MicaPlex at Embry-Riddle Research Park
• NAACE Everyday Entrepreneur Program

TREP EXPO News

• Drone Innovation, Vertical Farming Tech Top Embry-Riddle Entrepreneurship Competition
• Innovations in Renewable Energy, ‘Self-Healing’ Wiring Top Embry-Riddle’s Annual Business Competition

TREP EXPO '24

25 judges presided, 30 teams presented and over 700 people participated in TREP EXPO '24.

1st Place, Accelerator

Andrew Murphy

MURPHYANG Labs is an engineering solution and prototyping corporation focused on providing defense solutions that tackle the affordability crisis present in the US military supply chain by leveraging emerging technologies. Our product, Ionocopter, is a quad-based personal stealth reconnaissance drone that operates by applying terrestrial ionic propulsion to a traditional quadcopter model, creating a bladeless drone with no moving parts that is both cheaper and quieter than current stealth drone alternatives.

2nd Place, Accelerator

Lucas Cohen
Beyond Bounds Studios is a video game development company centered around creating immersive, enjoyable, and accessible experiences. The up-and-coming studio has a 23-person team developing Titanborn, the first ever fully voice acted and animated video game experience built within the Vanilla Minecraft platform.

People's Choice Award

Joseph Anderson and Michelle Aros

Asteria utilizes advanced mixed and extended reality technology to provide easy-to-use astrodynamics tools for space mission planning.

Learn more in our TREP Entrepreneurship Expo FAQs.