“We were sitting on the edge of our seats until the very last second,” says Rasmus Præstegaard, who together with his fellow student Daniel Wiencken won this year’s Smart Campus Herning Prize sponsored by AUHE Midwest Support Fund.

“We didn’t know who else had participated, but when we stepped into the lecture theatre and saw our opponents, we got a bit nervous as they’re all really talented,” Præstegaard says with a smile as he holds on tightly to his award certificate.