Sam Bromley of Whitecap Scientific Corp. and Sarah Murphy of Sentinal Alert captured first place at the Pitch101 St. John’s event at Memorial University on Friday, capping off two weeks of events for and by entrepreneurial students in the region.

I previously reported on the Pitch101 event at Acadia University last month, but have overlooked a few other happenings at universities, such as the presentations by Dalhousie University’s Starting Lean  course two weeks ago and by St. Mary’s University MBA students last week.

Bromley and Murphy are both experienced members of the startup community in St. John’s.

Bromley’s Whitecap Scientific is developing 3-D camera systems for the underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle industry, so pilots can operate the vehicles with greater speed and accuracy. The company is an established tenant at the Genesis Centre at Memorial.

Sentinal Alert, which won the Startup Weekend St. John’s last month, is developing a cellphone app that can alert companies when an employee has had an accident.

The runners-up at Pitch101 were Ajay Pande of Roll Call and Andrew Cook of Seaformatics.

The Dal Starting Lean course held its final presentations two weeks ago, and a few of the teams that went through the course are moving on to form companies. Volta Labs, the incubator in Halifax, has already said that Pixel, one of the Starting Lean graduates, has moved into the facility.

The entrepreneurship students at the Sobey School of Business demonstrations featured a range of presentations from a team proposing affordable online legal advice to another hoping to produce a medical product from an invasive pest in the Atlantic Ocean.