Young Innovators ‘Rise to the Challenge’

Dec 19, 2018 1:35 PM ET

The First Place Lakeshore High School team members were Ki Heon Chung, Maxwell Li, Jinglun Qu, Yash Gautam and Chad Fowler.

The panel was comprised of employees Dan Valenti: SVP/GM of KitchenAid Small Appliances, Pam Klyn: VP/Platform Leader of Washers, Doug Searles: GM of Consumer Packaged Goods and WLabs, Jim Keppler: VP Integrated Supply Chain & Quality, and Ben Frey: Legal counsel, Patents

Whirlpool Corporation’s 2018 High School Innovation Challenge came to a conclusion on Friday, Dec. 14 when an employee panel awarded the final prizes to four teams of area high schoolers. The challenge began in September with 147 students on 31 teams from five area high schools and was narrowed down to 10 teams in November. Those 10 finalists displayed their innovative creations in a series of Idea Fair booths and alternated presenting them before the panel at the company’s Riverview Campus in Benton Harbor.

Young Innovators ‘Rise to the Challenge’

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