“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.
Kira Erickson and Ivan Jayapurna, Founders of High Tide, were awarded the 2022-2023 Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Grand Prize of $10,000.
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)
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