AgriSolar Wins 2025 Grand Prize and Biggie Trophy AgriSolar — a mobile and scalable solar-powered irrigation system designed for smallholder farmers’ accessibility and affordability — took home top honors and the first-ever …
AgriSolar Wins 2025 Grand Prize and Biggie Trophy AgriSolar — a mobile and scalable solar-powered irrigation system designed for smallholder farmers’ accessibility and affordability — took home top honors and the first-ever …
Nearly a decade after earning the grand prize in the 2016 Big Ideas Contest at UC Berkeley, Somo, a non-profit supporting sustainable growth and job creation for small businesses in marginalized communities …
15 Student Teams Advance to Mentorship Stage of the Competition More than 100 industry and startup experts worked to evaluate this year’s Big Ideas applications and have selected 15 highly-promising student teams …
Ava is revolutionizing how the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community understands the world. It couldn’t have happened without the spirit of innovation fostered at UC Berkeley.
One Big Ideas Judge’s Journey to Social Entrepreneurship By Suryaansh Dongre Big Ideas participants have the drive to solve problems, but aren’t always sure where to begin. Usually, the best place to …
2024 Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Pitch Day & Awards Celebration This year’s Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Contest received 160 applications from UC Berkeley students and its partner campus, the University …
28 Student Teams Showcase Innovation and Diversity Berkeley, CA – February 1, 2024 Following an extensive review involving over 100 industry and startup experts, 28 student teams (full list provided below) have …
Kira Erickson and Ivan Jayapurna, Founders of High Tide, were awarded the 2022-2023 Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Grand Prize of $10,000.
“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)
By Anehita Okojie Last summer, Louisa Keeler was in her home state of Texas researching ways the government could support survivors of intimate partner violence. Navigating available resources was difficult, “but trying …
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 Mexico,” the senior exchange student says. …
In its annual Pitch Day event, the 2022 Big Ideas Grand Prize went to “SMART Cookies” from UC Irvine
Sam Goldman Abigail Woolf was reading a research paper in her AI for Healthcare class about the success of a convolutional neural network — artificial neurons used to analyze visual imagery — …
Sam Goldman The Big Ideas Contest and Haas School of Business’ Center for Social Sector Leadership team up for new hands-on course Anvitha Tummala sees many unhoused people on her walks to …
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 involves harvesting scores of spiny sea creatures. …
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 told, more than 900 graduate and undergraduate …
By Eumi Son BERKELEY, CALIF. — In the corner of UC Berkeley’s Haas campus courtyard sits a local coffee shop called Cafe Think. It’s usually buzzing with students and professors grabbing a …
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 told, more than 900 graduate and undergraduate …
By Eumi Son Dana Hernandez, Jay Majumdar and Chandra Vogt prepare an arsenic removal experiment by first measuring the initial pH of a synthetic groundwater solution. September 2019. It began with a …
By Ally Mintzer 2020 has been a challenging and stressful year in so many ways. COVID-19 has affected the entire world, exposing inadequate public health systems and causing disproportionate impacts based on …
Review the bios and profiles of the industry advisors who will be participating in the clinic on November 9th.