Team MatterFlow Triumph at the Das Family Innovate x LA Student Competition - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering

Team MatterFlow with the judging panel and organizers of the Das Family Innovate x LA Competition

Shortly after winning the hackathon at The Games Week: Building LA28 (2-6 March), Team MatterFlow shared their tips on how to craft a persuasive business pitch.

The problem they were tackling? The inefficiency of waste sorting at large venues. Their solution? An automated system that uses computer vision and mechanical sorting to recover valuable materials while generating a feedback loop of data.

Given that MatterFlow were soon due to compete at the annual Das Family Innovate X LA Competition held by USC Viterbi’s Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, you might have thought they’d keep their winning strategies under wraps.

But perhaps they had an intuition of what was to come.