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Big Ideas Winners
2017, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
Paladin Drones (UC Berkeley)
2017, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
Information for Action (UC Berkeley)
2017, 2nd Place
UC Berkeley
Reach 1600 Foundation (UC Berkeley)
2017, 1st Place
UC San Francisco
Serify (UC San Francisco)
2016, 1st Place
UC Berkeley
Dost: A Mobile Platform to Promote Parent Engagement and Early Childhood Education (UC Berkeley)
2016, Honorable Mention
UC Irvine
MindFull™ Technologies, Inc. (UC Irvine)
2016, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
PillPal (UC Berkeley)
2016, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
et al. Health (UC Berkeley)
2016, 2nd Place
UC Berkeley
Wildfire (UC Berkeley)
2016, 1st Place
UC Berkeley
LiftEd (UC Berkeley)
2015, 2nd Place
UC Berkeley
TIRO (UC Berkeley)
2015, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
OhMyCause! (UC Berkeley)
2015, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
Aqua Power: Feed Forward to a Secure Water Future (UC Berkeley)
2015, 1st Place
UC Berkeley
BCAPI (UC Berkeley)
2015
UC Santa Cruz
MMS Assisted Reading System (UC Santa Cruz)
2015, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
Padhne.De (UC Berkeley)
2015, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
Piezoelectric Shoe Sole GPS Tracker (UC Berkeley)
2015, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
Smart Diaphragm (UC Berkeley)
2015, 2nd Place
UC Berkeley
Lifenik (UC Berkeley)
2015, 2nd Place
Monash University
MyReadingTablet (MRT) (Monash University)
2015, 1st Place
Mobiles for Reading
Creating Decodable Readers in Haitian Creole (College of William and Mary)
2015
UC Berkeley
PINVoice (UC Berkeley)
2015, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
Gyaan (UC Berkeley)
2014, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
Sign UP (UC Berkeley)
2014, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
Aeolus: Detecting Narcotics-Induced Respiratory Depression (UC Berkeley)
2014, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
Sahay (UC Berkeley)
2014, 2nd Place
UC Berkeley
Dropsense (UC Berkeley)
2014, 1st Place
UC Berkeley
Glucose ENOSE (UC Berkeley)
2014, 2nd Place
UC Santa Cruz
Remote Cleft Therapy for Young Children through a Mobile Game (UC Santa Cruz)
2013, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
m3d: Mass Minable Medical Data (UC Berkeley)
2013, 2nd Place
UC Merced
Small, Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for CAL FIRE Reconnaissance (UC Merced)
2013, 1st Place
UC Santa Cruz
Low-Cost Utility-Driven Guardian Robot for Older Persons Living Alone (UC Santa Cruz)
2013, 2nd Place
UC Santa Cruz
Facilitating Independence for Photo Capturing, Browsing, and Sharing for Blind People (UC Santa Cruz)
2013, 1st Place
UC Berkeley
ParkExperienceMap (UC Berkeley)
2012, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
Pop-Up Radio Archive (UC Berkeley)
2008
Information Technology for Society
Minimally Obtrusive Wearable Device for Continuous Interactive Cognitive and Neurological Assessment
2008
Information Technology for Society
Integrated Diabetes Management
2008
Information Technology for Society
Game Based Disaster Emergency Response Training
2008
Information Technology for Society
Coupling Wind Generators with Flexible Loads
2008
Information Technology for Society
Bringing Reliable Power & Mobile Communication to West Africa
2008
Information Technology for Society
Application of Bayesian Networks to Infrastructure Risk Management
2007
Information Technology for Society
iCare
2012, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
TxtWorker (UC Berkeley)
2012, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
The Pika Pen (UC Berkeley)
2012, 2nd Place
UC Davis
Pathologicode (UC Davis)
2012, 1st Place
UC Berkeley
Politify (UC Berkeley)
2011, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
MobileWorks (UC Berkeley)
2011, 2nd Place
UC Berkeley
Crime Fighter (UC Berkeley)
2011, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
Technology for enabling collaborative public health interventions: Dynamic GIS mapping of hepatitis B (UC Berkeley)
2011, 2nd Place
UC Berkeley
Data in the First Mile: The case for Shreddr and paper-based data collection (UC Berkeley)
2011, 1st Place
UC Berkeley
From Crop to Cup (UC Berkeley)
2011, 2nd Place
UC Berkeley
Shreddr: Data from Paper to the Cloud (UC Berkeley)
2009, 3rd Place
UC Berkeley
Silicon Based Portable Imaging Device (UC Berkeley)
2009, 1st Place
UC Berkeley
San Quentin All Access Computer Center (UC Berkeley)
2009, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
Point of Care Device (UC Berkeley)
2009, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
Metamouse: Technology to Aid Multiple Users in Sharing Existing Applications (UC Berkeley)
2009, 2nd Place
UC Berkeley
Hyoumanity (UC Berkeley)
2009, Honorable Mention
UC Santa Cruz
CINCH: Cell Phone Technologies to Increase Nigerian Community Health (UC Santa Cruz)
2009, Honorable Mention
UC Berkeley
Chronic Disease Tracking & Management (UC Berkeley)
By Contest
All
Art & Social Change
Connected Communities
Energy & Resource Alternatives
Food Systems Innovation
Global Health
Hardware for Good
Scaling Up
Workforce Education & Development
Financial Inclusion*
Global Poverty Alleviation*
Improving Student Life*
Information Technology for Society*
Open Data for Development*
Promoting Human Rights*
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UC Los Angeles
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan State University
Monash University
Texas A&M University
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