A very early morning turned into a nerve-wracking Tuesday afternoon for Dariana, a senior from Albia High School. And she wouldn’t change a thing.

On April 22, Nathan Drew will speak to a class of undergraduate entrepreneurs at the University of Iowa. The site of the presentation — the Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory — still holds a special place in his heart.

S5G Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical eye drop compound that provides ocular protection, took home $25,000 for first place in the Innovation Challenge graduate/faculty/staff/incubator startup division at the University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center award’s event April 13 at MERGE in Iowa City, Iowa.