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Georgia Adams was sitting in her final law exam last November when she came up with the idea for a start-up. Ms Adams took part in , winning the award for best commercialisation of research.

鈥淭he idea came when I was sitting in the last five minutes of a three-hour open book exam,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 found myself transcribing my typed-up exam notes into the exam book. It鈥檚 no secret that students鈥� handwriting is declining, as a lot of research shows. Likewise, teachers are tired of trying to decipher poor handwriting when marking exams.鈥�

Georgia鈥檚 start-up, Aaro, is an inexpensive and scalable solution to this problem. It鈥檚 a non-programmable exam laptop that specifically deters hacking and addresses the growing need for secure cloud-based exams.

鈥淭he Sydney Genesis program develops the next generation of entrepreneurs who are solving real-world problems with their business innovations,鈥� said Jared Harrison, Sydney Genesis Coordinator at the .

Since it started in 2008, Sydney Genesis has had 1,000 entrepreneurs through the program. Professor Leanne Cutcher, Head of the Discipline of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, said the program has gone from strength to strength.

鈥淲e have created a rich ecosystem of entrepreneurship at the University of Sydney, of which Genesis plays a vital part,鈥� said Professor Cutcher. 鈥淚n addition to the seed funding, our winners will be fast-tracked through to the and receive support from the Innovation Hub at the University.鈥�

Located in the Discipline of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the听听is unique in bringing world-leading researchers and budding entrepreneurs together, said Professor Cutcher.

The program is open to students, staff and alumni from any faculty across the University of Sydney. Mr Harrison said: 鈥淚t鈥檚 not just Business School students who have great ideas for start-ups.鈥�

The founders of听, who took out one of the top prizes in last semester鈥檚 pitch night, studied design at the University.听

PetiteBeat is a bonding device that consists of a foetal heart beat detector and a pillow, which amplifies the heart beat during pregnancy through light, sound and pulse. Founders Franziska Seehuber and Anna Maria Natlacen spoke at the final pitch night.

鈥淣one of us had a business background so we needed the entrepreneurial skills to get our start-up off the ground,鈥� Ms Seehuber said.

One of this semester鈥檚 Genesis winners, Georgia Adams, said, 鈥淚n an age where some kids are texting faster than they can write, our schools could really benefit from secure cloud exams.

鈥淭he way that I鈥檝e proposed to solve this issue is with a very inexpensive hardware solution. The laptop would have very limited memory, which means it only has space for the exam program itself.

鈥淭his way we鈥檙e testing students鈥� knowledge, not their ability to Google an answer.鈥�

Winners of the Sydney Genesis final pitch night:

• Best Business Scalable Asia Prize - Anthony Le, founder of Coinflow (an automated accounting platform that helps business owners spend less than an hour a month doing their own accounting).
• Best Social Innovation Prize - Charbel Moujalli, founder of Wasta (a digitised听blockchain 鈥榯oken鈥� audit trail, which tracks the movement of funds between intermediaries to ensure that grants and financial aid end up in the right hands).
• Richard Seymour Sustainability Prize - Juan Lillo, founder of Biotechion (a portable testing kit to test viruses and bacteria in livestock and agriculture using a new DNA/RNA听technology听called听recombinase polymerase amplification).
• Best Commercialisation of Research - Georgia Adams, founder of Aaro (an inexpensive, scalable, non-programmable exam laptop that specifically deters hacking and addresses the growing need for secure cloud-based exams).

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