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Winners Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc., (www.auroramri.com) is a private company based in North Andover, Massachusetts. With the sole purpose of fighting breast cancer, Aurora is the developer and manufacturer of the Aurora® 1.5T Dedicated Breast MRI System with Bilateral RODEO®, the first and only FDA cleared MRI system designed specifically for breast imaging. Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq CBST) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on research, development and commercialization of products that address unmet medical needs in the acute care environment. Cubist, headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, has focused on developing opportunities in the anti-infective marketplace. Cubist’s flagship drug, CUBICIN® (daptomycin for injection) has experienced the most successful launch of an IV antibiotic in U.S. history. Equal Exchange, founded in 1986, is the worker-owned and governed cooperative who pioneered the Fair Trade concept in the U.S. coffee industry. They have since successfully expanded their Fair Trade program into the tea, cocoa, and chocolate categories, and have grown into the nation’s sixth largest worker co-op. In 2000, they won Business Ethics magazine’s award for Stakeholder Relations. iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT) is a provider of robots that perform dull, dirty or dangerous missions in a better way. The company’s proprietary technology, iRobot AWARE Robot Intelligence Systems, incorporates advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence. This proprietary system enables iRobot to build behavior-based robots, including its family of consumer and military robots. Insulet Corporation is dedicated to designing and developing products that provide superior treatment options and lifelong health benefits for people with diabetes. OmniPod® Insulin Management System, is a two-part, tubeless, wireless, discreet, subcutaneous insulin delivery device designed to make diabetes a smaller part of life. Questech was founded by sculptor Roger Questel as a way to circumvent the high cost of casting metal. This break-through technology is an environmentally friendly process that produces metal at a fraction of the cost and weight of traditional metal casting. Today Questech is a recognized design leader in the tile industry and continues to innovate, recently introducing several new products with market changing competitive advantages. Finalists Chomp, Inc. is manufacturer and marketer of three innovative brands of treats for pets – YipYap breath mints for dogs, Pit'r Pat "candy" for cats and Sniffers treats and functional training bits for dogs. Chomp has adopted the paradigm- busting distribution strategy of packaging it's products like human candy and merchandising the products at the checkouts in grocery and mass merchandise stores. Global Relief Technologies is simplifying the process of efficiently and accurately collecting and transmitting data from remote field locations through a unique, integrated solution that combines sector-specific applications, mapping imagery and layering, database management and satellite/cellular technology. Data gathering is streamlined via easy-to-use, standardized formats available on personal handheld (PDA) and laptop computers. GRT’s Virtual Network Operations Center (VNOC) provides a centralized, relational database management system in a secure environment. HouseWorks is a different kind of private-pay home care company — more flexible, more reliable, and more responsive than any of its predecessors. Dedicated to helping seniors live independently, HouseWorks' fundamental innovation has been its entrepreneurial approach to service delivery -- a customer-driven approach that returns a sense of control to adult children and their elderly parents. Innov-X Systems, Inc. - Point our surface analysis tools at almost anything and in seconds you learn what it’s made of –essentially a StarTrek "tri-corder" for elements! Using a tiny x-ray beam, they are powerful analyzers for pollution measurements, electronics, recycling, Police forensics, jewelry and alloy confirmation, and more. We have doubled sales each of the past 4 years, and now employ 60 in Massachusetts. Luminus Devices manufactures high performance light emitting devices, based on photonic lattice LED technology invented at MIT. Its PhlatLight (Photonic Lattice) product family is the only commercially available solid state light source that can cost-effectively illuminate large screen high definition televisions, with brighter colors and peerless reliability. Several leading brands, including Samsung, are using PhlatLight technology in their televisions. Marine Acoustics, Inc. is a small, veteran owned business headquartered in Middletown, RI, with technical offices in Virginia, Connecticut, and Maryland. MAI provides broad oceanographic, acoustic, and environmental support technology in underwater acoustics, environmental sciences, and language translation technology. MAI has been involved in developing, manufacturing, and distributing the Phraselator, a handheld voice-to-voice language translator for the last six years. Nexcelom Bioscience designs, develops, and manufactures innovative devices for cell-based assays. The company combines the most advanced material science, polymer manufacturing tech-nologies, optical materials, and device design to provide new tools for biomedical research, bio-technology development, and pharmaceutical drug discovery. NMT Medical is an advanced medical technology company that designs, develops and markets proprietary implant technologies that allow interventional cardiologists to treat cardiac sources of migraine headaches, stroke and other potential brain attacks through minimally invasive, catheter-based procedures. NMT is sponsoring five clinical trials that are approved and underway to validate this emerging opportunity. WebGen makes IUE™, the most advanced software available for energy conservation and control. The system uses open protocols and neural networks to measure and manage energy consumption in real time for commercial properties. IUE™ produces significant savings for owners while serving as emergency curtailment infrastructure for the grid. Customers include Bank of America, State of California, and University of Miami.