Blue Sky Creamery

In the spring of 1999, while students at Iowa State University, founders Thomas (T. J. Paskach and William (Will) Schroeder invented a new way to flash-freeze ice cream using liquid nitrogen. The mad scientists soon discovered their breakthrough invention made better homemade ice cream than they had ever had before. A year later the firm was established, a patent was pending, and a complete-scale, computer-controlled prototype was ready for testing at the 2000 Iowa State Fair.