# Burton D. Morgan Competition — Spring 2025 Winners, Results & Prizes

> Spring 2025 results from Purdue's 36th Burton D. Morgan Business Concept Competition: top three winners, $3,000 standout finalists, participation, and final-event details.

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

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

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> **Historical archive — Spring 2025.** This recap was published in 2026 from Purdue and contemporary competition sources.

The **36th Burton D. Morgan Business Concept Competition** concluded on April 23, 2025 after a nine-week cycle.

## Top 3 winners

| Place | Team | Prize | Public problem description |
| --- | --- | ---: | --- |
| **1st** | Corin Tuinstra, John Lucas | **$10,000** | Inefficiencies in trade-finance infrastructure |
| **2nd** | Edgar Babajanyan, Lewis Polansky | **$7,000** | Giving CFOs and analysts time back through AI in reporting/data pipelines |
| **3rd** | Levi Reyes Premer, Mark O'Donnell III | **$5,000** | Reducing residential-electrification cost through data-driven load shifting |

These results were published in the organizer's [post-final recap](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7325172492644290561).

## Seven $3,000 standout concepts

The remaining seven finalists each received **$3,000**:
- Amit Manchella, Aditya Naidu
- Shambhavi Adkar, Tong En Sim, Mahee Jain
- Bilsha Das, Drew Riordan
- Ryan Jo, Maheshwari Das, Chorong Park
- Ilke Akturk, Ali Sinan Akturk, Burla Ondes
- Kanishk Singh, Dheeraj Aaditya, Srikar Kolla
- Rodrigo Schmitt — Purdue's archive lists Rodrigo; his finalist announcement identifies **Lucas Rezende Malta de Sá** as his SkillTrees teammate

## Scale

The [official Purdue final-event page](https://events.purdue.edu/event/final-event-36th-burton-d-morgan-business-concept-competition) reported:
- **56 teams**
- **125 students**
- a **nine-week** concept-building process
- a final in Rawls Hall on April 23

## Three $1,000 special awards

Purdue's current competition archive also lists:

- **Best Customer Discovery:** Kenneth Halls — $1,000
- **Most Creative Concept:** Dalton Aaker — $1,000
- **Most Innovative Concept:** Khushi Choksi, Hannah Margulis, and Elan Smyla — $1,000

The published, itemized awards therefore total **$46,000**: $22,000 for the Top 3, $21,000 across seven $3,000 Standout Concept prizes, and $3,000 across the three special prizes. Purdue advertised a **$50,000 prize pool** for the Spring 2025 cycle, so buildpurdue distinguishes the advertised pool from the **$46,000 explicitly itemized** in the public results rather than inventing an unlisted $4,000 award.

## The MoMoney example

One standout team, **MoMoney**, was built by Kanishk Singh, Dheeraj Aaditya, and Srikar Kolla around financial-literacy and investing education using micro-learning and gamified paper trading.

Srikar Kolla's [finalist recap](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/srikarkolla_excited-to-share-that-our-team-momoney-activity-7321355180266938370-_j_p) confirms the $3,000 prize.

## What came next

The next Burton Morgan cycle happened in **Fall 2025**, not Spring 2026. It became the 37th **Venture Concept Competition**, grew to 120 teams and nearly 250 students, and used a December final.

See the [Fall 2025 archive](/blog/burton-d-morgan-venture-concept-competition-fall-2025) and [Fall 2025 results](/blog/burton-d-morgan-winners-results-fall-2025).