Courtney Linder is senior news editor at Popular Mechanics magazine and a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. In her spare time, she freelances for news organizations in her hometown of Pittsburgh, with a focus on technology. When she's not writing, she's probably reading something spooky or blasting Nirvana. She lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her partner and her black cat.
The winners are a startup building a central registration page for Covid vaccines, a project which hopes to bring down bus fares in Pittsburgh and a company creating an app to help first responders.