“I always love to be involved in the local community, but Big Ideas especially felt like a great fit with the skills I have to offer and how I want to be connecting with others,” Lipsett says.
Master of Development Engineering students Victor Okoro, Daniel Huang, and Joshua Iokua Albano, teamed up to found Madojo, a platform that connects Nigerian university graduates with employers in the technology space.
Since 2020, Takataka Plastics has transformed Uganda’s discarded bottles and packaging into tiles, face shields, flower pots, chairs, coasters and phone holders. (Engineering for Change)
Sam Goldman Xavier Aguirre Villarreal’s father is a farmer in Coahuila, Mexico. “We get to work with a lot of people from very different places
In its annual Pitch Day event, the 2022 Big Ideas Grand Prize went to “SMART Cookies” from UC Irvine
Learn about the top social innovations being developed by students from across the entire UC System and network with the Big Ideas community of judges,
Sam Goldman While virtual events during the pandemic have allowed participants to multi-task, sometimes those activities can get a little stressful — especially when it
In November 2020, students from across the University of California system submitted a record number of innovative ideas to the UC Big Ideas Contest. All
After receiving mentorship from the Big Ideas Contest, Amy Liu, founder and CEO of Partners in Life, became an Innovation Ambassador for both the 2018-2019 academic year and now the 2019-2020 one.
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