Six of the most innovative projects in the 2012-13 Big Ideas@Berkeley contest have been selected to present their projects to a panel of judges and the campus community at the Big Ideas Pitch Day Grand Prize.
Six of the most innovative projects in the 2012-13 Big Ideas@Berkeley contest have been selected to present their projects to a panel of judges and the campus community at the Big Ideas Pitch Day Grand Prize.
On Wednesday April 10th, from 2-4pm, Big Ideas@Berkeley will hold its annual “Information Technology for Society” poster session in B100 Blum Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Behind nearly every student seeking up to $300,000 in seed funding is a project mentor, proud of them yet anxiously awaiting behind the scenes to hear the judges’ decision.
Almost everyone in urban India has a cell phone, but few have access to running water. NextDrop, winner of the 2011 Big Ideas@Berkeley contest, has a simple solution.
“It all starts from one idea,” said Alejandro Velez during the first informational session for the Big Ideas@Berkeley contest.
Using smartphone cameras connected to a web platform, CellScope is creating a modern-day digital first aid kit.
EMS Shirati aims to reduce the maternal death rate with the MedBike—an innovative, rugged motorcycle that will safely and rapidly transport patients to the hospital.
Big Ideas@Berkeley held its annual award ceremony earlier this week, just as the $1 billion sale of the popular smartphone application Instagram made international headlines.
Big Ideas@Berkeley is much more than a prize. It is an entire process for nurturing student-led innovation.
The Pop Up Radio Archive team is working not only to preserve bits and pieces of culture, but also to make these resources available and easily accessible on the web.
Two student-led social-enterprise projects — one global in scope, the other hyper-local — shared first place in the 2012 Big Ideas @ Berkeley contest after the final round of judging ended in a popular, if surprising, split decision.
Two School of Information students have identified a key challenge to small coffee growers: information.
Engineering students at UC Berkeley are helping to solve environmental problems in developing countries where the skills they're learning in the classroom are in short supply.
Big Ideas @ Berkeley uses small amounts of money to unleash large amounts of innovative brainpower.