The Rendlex tool

A week a go I listed this article about a budding inventor who being a window cleaner had come up with a tool that he developed & submitted in a competition. He won!

The Rendlex Tool will be a seven-unit device that fits and locks into a patented window cleaning equipment handle and helps window washers pry open screens or clean debris from a window frame.

Jordan Leahy was awarded the top prize of $5,000 with his invention of the Rendlex Tool, a tool with special features designed to aid in window washing during the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization's 2nd Annual Warhawk Business Plan Contest Thursday evening in the Hamilton Center.The event served as a way for UW-Whitewater students to showcase their ideas for potential businesses or help an existing business grow. The competition allowed students to take their first steps toward turning an idea into a profitable business through putting together a business plan and presenting it before a panel of judges. The judges consisted of UW-Whitewater faculty, alumni and business leaders.The competition began with over 30 teams which were narrowed down to 10 and then the final five presented during the event.Leahy was excited about the win and encouraged others to participate in CEO's events."It is a great opportunity," Leahy said. "I wish other people put more effort into entrepreneurship because there's a lot of support out here."