The money will be used to develop a basic model, then the company plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for manufacturing.

“Kickstarter has been very successful with 3-D printers, and hobbyists are really involved in Kickstarter. They’re the ones who’ve shown the most interest in the product already,” Haider said.

The Burrill $7,000 second prize went to SELA, whose medical device sprays anesthesia into the throat of a person who will undergo a procedure that involves looking into the back of the throat or inserting a tube down the throat.

The biomedical student team of Katherine Baldwin, 21, of St. Paul; James Dorrance, 22, of Rice Lake; Terah Hennick, 22, of Racine; and Alyssa Mitchell, 21, of Kimberly, developed the device at the request of an anesthesiologist at UW Hospital, the students said.

“It’s a real need in the field,” Hennick said.

The next steps will be to make a prototype that can be mass-produced, and to seek approval to market it from the Food & Drug Administration, Dorrance said.

Coride, a mobile app for finding ride-sharing partners from one city to another, won the $2,000 third prize.