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UW student wins top Innovation Days prize for prosthetic hand

Daydreaming during class paid off for UW-Madison student Eric Ronning. He won $11,250 on Friday at UW-Madison?s annual Innovation Days for an invention he came up with during an engineering lecture. “I space out a lot,” Ronning admitted, a sophomore from Lincolnwood, Ill., who is majoring in mechanical engineering.