(From left to right) Sameer Tadros, Devin Feliciano, Colin Vucko, Danny Kelly, and Mia Narciso, all Marist High School ‘26 Devin Feliciano
On May 13, 2025, five then-juniors at Marist High School (4200 W. 115th St.) won a $10,000 cash prize as the first place winners of Marist’s Eleventh Annual Pitch Night, to be utilized toward their product, the OmniShake.
The Pitch Night was an event coinciding with Marist’s Innovative Design for Entrepreneurial Applications (IDEA) honors class, a course for juniors in which students form groups and develop business ideas.
“Winning first place honestly felt surreal,” CEO of OmniShake and Marist senior Devin Feliciano stated. “We put in so much time refining every little detail, from the logo to the lid design, so to have that hard work recognized was incredible.”
The OmniShake is a stainless steel shaker bottle that is mostly intended for athletic drinks, which are often made with powders and shaken until the powder dissolves.
Feliciano says: “Most bottles leak, break, or leave chunks of powder no matter how hard you shake them. The biggest difference with ours is the built-in sifter. Instead of using those wire balls that just bounce around annoyingly or plastic grids that barely do anything, our sifter stays locked in place and forces everything through thin openings for a perfectly smooth mix every time. It’s leakproof, durable, and looks clean enough to use anywhere.”
Although Feliciano is the CEO of the young organization, Colin Vucko, CFO of Omnishake and senior at Marist High School, was the one who initially came up with the idea.
“We were coming up with problems that we encountered in our daily lives and by some divine intervention, Vucko experienced an issue with his water bottle before. When he got to practice, he opened his gym bag to find that his plastic water bottle had burst open and left chunks of protein powder all over his bag, clothes, and shoes. He came in the next day and knew that there was real value in creating a perfect metal water bottle,” Feliciano explained.
Although the OmniShake was created for an honors high school course, Feliciano says that he and the rest of the group with OmniShake take the product very seriously, and want to turn it into something much bigger than the IDEA class.
“OmniShake isn’t some random class project that stops after Pitch Night,” Feliciano shared. “We’ve actually launched it for real and are continuing to grow it as a business. It’s been a huge learning experience in leadership, problem-solving, and teamwork, and it’s shown me how much I enjoy building something from the ground up.”
The group was able to sell the product in the Marist Bookstore, and is currently working on partnerships with local gyms, according to Feliciano.
You can follow OmniShake on Instagram @omnishake. OmniShakes are available for purchase on its website.