PROPEL PSU PANEL + NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS HONORS

Panelist will be:

• Cassidy Bek: Alum of the PSU Center of Entrepreneurship's Cube program and the founder of Excessa, a company building communities by providing fitness and wellness services, staffing, and design consulting for multifamily and multi-tenant spaces. She is committed to creating a space where residents can connect while also providing wellness providers with fair wages.
• Evan Elkin: Evan is the Director of Reclaiming Futures a PSU Center that implements evidence-based screening and interventive models. Along with his Deputy Director, Jim Carlton, Evan runs training and implementation programs that support several of PSU's longest-running non-exclusive licensing programs, such as Here to Help, and family and juvenile justice-focused versions SBIRT, a model that identifies needs and then provides connective community care for youth. So far Reclaiming Futures has developed partner relationships in over 15 states, and its positive impact on at-risk youth across the USA continues to grow each year.
• Theresa McCormick: As a founder of AirOmatix and Professor of Chemistry at PSU, she will bring her experience starting a company while maintaining a research program at PSU. One of Theresa's innovations is a new method to efficiently capture and concentrate oxygen through photochemical reactions. With a license to the IP from PSU, financial support from the University Venture Development Fund, and an SBIR award from the NSF, AirOmatix is developing commercial prototypes to meet healthcare and small manufacturing needs.