Over the past month, we asked Denver Post readers and our staff to help us come up with a list of people in Colorado who should be recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments or ideas that either occurred or came to fruition in 2013.
Click for the complete list of this year’s winners.
Technology
WINNER:
Daryl Oster of Longmont, CEO of Evacuated Tube Technology, a new transportation technology. As : “For more than three decades, Daryl Oster has pushed to realize an idea that came to him in a college class — transporting people and cargo at high speeds through airless tubes.” ET3 envisions car-sized capsules to travel in 5-foot-diameter, two-way tubes that will be built along a travel route.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Randy Menzer, executive director of the Douglas County nonprofit Ameribotics and leader of a 30-student American team at the 15th International Robotics Olympiad, held in December at the Colorado Convention Center. In 2010, Menzer started the bid process to bring the competition to North America for the first time,
, bringing “the next generation of engineers, computer programmers and robot architects from across the globe” to Colorado.
