Five engineering teams from schools across the country have been selected to represent the United States at the 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit Student Day Competition.
11 teams of undergraduate students from Cleveland State University, North Carolina State University, University of Denver, New York Institute of Technology, Arizona State University, The Pennsylvania State University, New Mexico Tech, UC San Diego, University of North Dakota, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Southern California traveled to Washington, DC to compete in the preliminary nomination round of the 2017 Student Day Business Plan Competition.

The five winning teams and their business proposals were: North Carolina State (Medicom); The Pennsylvania State University (Morwater); University of California, San Diego (Worldcare Technologies); University of Denver (Wanderlift); and the University of Southern California (Intram).