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Some friendships can change the world. So can some 20-year high school reunions. In 2001, the Capital High School Class of 1981 converged on Helena for the sacred rite of discovering who had gained weight, lost hair, reproduced or become completely unrecognizable. At the reunion, Jim Beck, a towering 6-foot-7 mechanical engineer from Seattle, chatted with a classmate and learned another old friend, Mike DeGrandpre, now worked at the University of Montana and had started a company, Sunburst Sensors LLC. Somewhat intrigued, Beck sought out DeGrandpre, a buddy he had known since junior high. They hadn’t been best friends in high school, but they had moved in the same circles, taken the same classes, shared the same dry sense of humor and served as class officers together. (DeGrandpre was president, Beck treasurer.) Once they had camped together in the Pintler Mountains – an adventure aborted after waking to 4 inches of August snow. The two soon learned their post-high school lives included a shared professional interest: sensors. DeGrandpre and UM had patented a device for analyzing marine and fresh water in 1999, and he had created Sunburst Sensors to market what became known as SAMIs: Submersible Autonomous Moored Instruments. Beck was running a small company that produced a high- tech pedometer, a sort of early Fitbit for scientists, but he itched to return home to Montana. Could Sunburst get him back to Big Sky Country? After the reunion, the two friends kept in touch. Beck learned Sunburst wasn’t selling many SAMIs in the early 2000s, and the company needed a fresh infusion of cash to remain viable. DeGrandpre had put up $25,000 or so of his own money to keep Sunburst afloat. He and Beck worked together on grant proposals to continue Young XPRIZE winners: When Mike Degrandpre (far left) and Jim Beck (white shirt) were seniors at Capital High School in Helena in 1981, they had no idea where their shared future would lead them. improving the SAMI technology, but nothing was funded. Beck couldn’t risk returning to Montana unless Sunburst became a better bet. They worked together on one last grant proposal in 2005. If that proposal failed, Beck was staying put and there was a chance Sunburst would fold. But this time they landed a sizable National Oceanographic Partnership Program grant to make the SAMIs more user-friendly. DeGrandpre now could offer his high school buddy three years of guaranteed salary, as well as half ownership of Sunburst. Beck made the jump to Missoula. “That was a critical moment,” DeGrandpre says. “I was the idea guy that came up with these products. But Jim has these skills like programming and Vision 2016 9 mechanical design, and he actually can make a manufacturable product and run a business. He was the perfect guy.” A few years after that high school reunion, the tide had turned for Sunburst Sensors. J another Capital Class of ’81 graduate), found themselves in New York City’s Harold Pratt Mansion for a lavish awards ceremony. Sunburst Sensors was one of five finalists for the $2 million Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE. The elaborate stage and well-dressed announcers and researchers gave the room an Academy-Awards-of- Science feel. XPRIZE is a nonprofit organization that designs and manages public competitions ump ahead a decade to July 20, 2015. DeGrandpre, Beck and Beck’s wife, Katherine (a Sunburst employee andPDF Image | Carbon Vision 2016
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