Last Night
Last Night is a workshop and fully developed card game that opens up a space for conversations among college-aged players about how to discern when a sexual situation may not be clearly consensual. The emotional and educational impact of Last Night hinges on shifting the perspective in a story that players help write. Competitive gameplay … Continue reading “Last Night”
- Team Members: Simon Boas
- Art & Social Change
- UC Santa Cruz
- 2018
Artists in Residents
Based out of The Suitcase Clinic, Artists in Residents provides a meaningful and enriching artistic outlet to Berkeley’s homeless residents, allowing participants the opportunity to grow through their art and gain compensation for their work. Through public events that showcase the artistic side of this underrepresented community, Artists in Residents will facilitate a more complex … Continue reading “Artists in Residents”
- Team Members: Monica Schreiber, Kyle Gibson, Rasika Sudarshan, Krupa Modi, Allie Yip
- Art & Social Change
- UC Berkeley
- 2018
VIDI
Every patient’s nightmare is putting one’s health at risk by receiving a failed surgery. In the US, medical errors kill more than 200,000 patients per year, making it the third-leading cause of death. The avoidable morbidity is partially due to lack of vigilance from manual counting and tracking of surgical instruments. Time-consuming and error-prone, the … Continue reading “VIDI”
- Team Members: Federico Alvarez del Blanco, John Kim, Hector Neira, Robert Kim
- Hardware for Good
- UC Berkeley
- 2018
Innovis Medical
Trauma disrupts every person’s blood clotting ability to stop bleeding and remains the second leading cause of preventable death in industrialized countries. With no effective medical device to provide physicians with full blood clotting data at the site of injury, medics resort to blind dosing that carries significant risk of internal blood clotting or having … Continue reading “Innovis Medical”
- Team Members: Johnathon Li
- Hardware for Good
- UC Davis
- 2018
Codi
In the US, 1 in 4 renters spend half their income on rent. City life has become increasingly unaffordable while residential spaces remain empty during the day. Meanwhile, technology is disrupting the traditional work structure leading to ever more freelancers and remote workers. The demand for flexible workspaces during the day is soaring, as expensive … Continue reading “Codi”
- Team Members: Christelle Rohaut, Laila Zouaki
- Cities and Communities
- UC Berkeley
- 2018
Acarí
Acarí takes the hated and feared invasive armored catfish or ‘devil fish’ as it is colloquially known in Mexico and transforms it into tasty, nutritious food products to increase employment in rural fishing communities and provide a healthy, sustainable alternative to beef jerky. To Acarí, the devil fish is much more than an invasive ‘trash … Continue reading “Acarí”
- Team Members: Mike Mitchell, Sam Bordia
- Food and Agriculture
- UC Berkeley
- 2018
Loo Lab
In rapidly urbanizing areas, small exhauster truck businesses are unable to keep up with the demand for pit latrine emptying services due to inefficiencies in their operations. Thus, when a latrine fills in most low-income urban areas, manual emptiers use buckets to empty the waste and dump it in the environment. This results in high … Continue reading “Loo Lab”
- Team Members: Rachel Sklar
- Global Health
- UC Berkeley
- 2018
Lumenda
In developing countries, the cost to diagnose meningitis remains high and therefore many neonates are denied quality healthcare. Approximately 126,000 cases of neonatal bacterial meningitis occur every year in low income countries of which 25–50% develop brain damage and about 40-58% of patients die. The gold standard for diagnosing neonatal bacterial meningitis is a cerebrospinal … Continue reading “Lumenda”
- Team Members: Julius Mugaga, Sidney Perkins, Solomon Oshabaheebwa, Lizzette Delgadillo, Bryan Louie, Priya Medberry
- Global Health
- Makerere University
- 2018
Scaling Dost Education
Dost Education empowers parents of any literacy level in India to get their 3-5 year old kids ready for school. By simply dialing a number, parents join Dost’s program and receive daily, 2-minute podcasts on their phone about topics like numeracy, language and socio-emotional well-being. Typically, Dost customers are mothers who are motivated to get … Continue reading “Scaling Dost Education”
- Team Members: Sneha Sheth, Sindhuja Jeyabal
- Education & Literacy, Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2017