1st Place - IEEE Entrepreneurship Prospectors Workshop

Won first place at the IEEE Entrepreneurship Prospectors workshop at the Wits Innovation Centre in 2023, presenting Gotcha with Jesse Thornburg.

What Was Recognised

• Built and presented Gotcha as an EdTech venture focused on autonomous cheat detection for online and offline examinations.
• Refined the pitch, validation path, and execution plan during the workshop sprint.
• Combined education-domain insight, product thinking, and technical feasibility into a first-place pitch.

Source

The IEEE Entrepreneurship article from July 2023 identifies Talhah Patelia and Jesse Thornburg as the first-place winners for Gotcha.

Read the IEEE Entrepreneurship article