IFTSA Student Competition Winners
IFT announces winners of student product development and other competitions that took place at IFT FIRST.
Congratulations to all the IFT Student Association 2023 competition winners! And thanks to all the finalist teams that participated.
IFTSA & MARS Product Development Competition (sponsored by Mars Wrigley). The Cornell University team earned first place for CaféNana, upcycled, caffeinated coffee-banana sandwich bites consisting of two chewy banana leather pieces and a creamy sunflower butter coffee filling.
Second Place went to Churroats from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai…
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