# Burton D. Morgan Competition — Spring 2025 Finalists

> The finalists from Purdue's Spring 2025 36th Burton D. Morgan Business Concept Competition, including the Top 3 winners and seven $3,000 standout concepts.

By buildpurdue Team · September 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Source: https://www.buildpurdue.org/blog/burton-d-morgan-finalists-spring-2025

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> **Historical archive — Spring 2025.** This page was published in 2026 from Purdue, organizer, judge, and founder sources.

Purdue's Spring 2025 competition selected **10 finalists** from **56 teams and 125 students** after a nine-week process.

## Top 3 finalists and winners

The organizer's public results recap identified:

1. **Corin Tuinstra and John Lucas** — first place, addressing inefficiencies in trade-finance infrastructure
2. **Edgar Babajanyan and Lewis Polansky** — second place, using AI to reduce time spent in finance data pipelines and reporting
3. **Levi Reyes Premer and Mark O'Donnell III** — third place, reducing residential-electrification costs through data-driven load shifting

## Other standout finalists

The seven other finalists each received a **$3,000 Standout Concept prize** according to the public results recap:

- **Amit Manchella and Aditya Naidu** — automating complex workflows and repetitive diligence for investment-banking analysts
- **Shambhavi Adkar, Tong En Sim, and Mahee Jain** — personalized women's wellness across life stages
- **Bilsha Das and Drew Riordan** — personalized problem reframing intended to make homework more engaging
- **Ryan Jo, Maheshwari Das, and Chorong Park** — caregiver-senior matching aimed at caregiver turnover in home health
- **Ilke Akturk, Ali Sinan Akturk, and Burla Ondes** — lab management through data integration, task automation, and inventory management
- **Kanishk Singh, Dheeraj Aaditya, and Srikar Kolla** — investment education through micro-learning and gamified paper trading
- **Rodrigo Schmitt** — personalized skill maps for students; Schmitt's own finalist post also names collaborator Lucas Rezende Malta de Sá

The organizer's results are preserved in this [public recap](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7325172492644290561).

## Special-prize winners

Purdue's current competition archive also records three **$1,000** special awards from the Spring 2025 final:

- **Best Customer Discovery:** Kenneth Halls — helping schools and teachers incorporate engaging learning experiences with 3D-printing solutions
- **Most Creative Concept:** Dalton Aaker — improving cognitive performance and focus for knowledge workers in noisy environments
- **Most Innovative Concept:** Khushi Choksi, Hannah Margulis, and Elan Smyla — improving on-field early concussion detection for athletes with a software solution

These special awards are separate from the Top 10 finalist placements above.

## Final event

The [official Purdue event page](https://events.purdue.edu/event/final-event-36th-burton-d-morgan-business-concept-competition) says the final was held April 23, 2025 in Rawls Hall after nine weeks of concept development.

Public posts around the final thanked judges including Arpan Ajmera, Landon Young, Mickey Swortzel, M. Minti Ray, and Ryan Larcom.

## More Spring 2025 coverage

- [Spring 2025 cycle archive](/blog/burton-d-morgan-business-concept-competition-spring-2025)
- [Spring 2025 winners and results](/blog/burton-d-morgan-winners-results-spring-2025)
- [Complete Burton D. Morgan guide](/blog/burton-d-morgan-venture-concept-competition)