ALUMNI NEWS

October 2008
Rion Stassi recently won the Grand Prize of $10,000 from the Basil Hayden Tastemakers Design Chicago competition with his design of a chandelier.Nate Berkus, the host and Oprah's interior designer presented the prize to Rion.






July 2008
Tom Dempsey, the 44-year-old founder of SylvanSport, a startup in Cedar Mountain, N.C., describes its flagship product, the Go, as "mobile adventure gear." The Go—winner of a Gold IDEA this year—certainly includes a lot of functions. The lightweight vehicle/camper/trailer has the silhouette of a turtle's shell or an igloo. It can serve as a wheeled tent that sleeps two, or it can be converted to haul nearly its own weight in equipment, such as mountain bikes and kayaks. It has numerous other functions and configurations, and it folds neatly for storage, like a Swiss Army knife.




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