Preparing Future Leaders: The Community Health and Development Internship Project
In rural Guatemala, where multiple factors conspire to undermine the public’s health, adolescent empowerment represents a promising strategy. Today’s adolescents are future leaders capable of promoting health within their communities, but too often, poor and indigenous youth are denied the opportunity to use their gifts in service of their communities. By providing these youth with … Continue reading “Preparing Future Leaders: The Community Health and Development Internship Project”
- Team Members: Lila Sheira, Michael Bakal, Kimberly Vinall
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
BCAPI
Millions of people with physical disabilities lack control of their bodies but still can control their minds. Recent advancements in Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) have enabled people with physical disabilities to drive wheelchairs, write, and communicate. The BCAPI team is developing a powerful software and hardware package that will enable technology developers and researchers to create … Continue reading “BCAPI”
- Team Members: Stephen Frey, Pierre Karashchuk, John Naulty, Alexander Tyler, Tomas Vega
- Information Technology for Society
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
Responsive City Lights: Urban Streets as Public Spaces
Responsive City Lights uses interactive light installations to enhance the perception of streets as engaging public spaces. The project implements Crime Prevention through Environmental Design principles by increasing foot traffic and pedestrian interaction, bringing the internet of things into urban spaces to help fulfill a vital social need. The interactivity of the lights creates activity … Continue reading “Responsive City Lights: Urban Streets as Public Spaces”
- Team Members: Andrew Chong, Daniel Brenners, Ellen Van Wyk, Ricky Holtz, Seongtaek Lim, Yuxin Chen
- Art & Social Change, Creative Expression for Social Justice
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
Special Lessons in Neuroscience
To address the inequality in educational opportunities provided to children of lower income areas and school districts, this project is designed to harness the potential of young minds, and provide resources to inspire and encourage pursuit of further education and the largest ambitions of these students. Through its student organization, the Cognitive Science Student Association, … Continue reading “Special Lessons in Neuroscience”
- Team Members: Bridget MacDonald, Sabrina Erloff
- Improving Student Life
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
SeedEd Capital
SeedEd Capital’s mission is to provide responsible funding alternatives for disadvantaged students in Alameda County interested in pursuing higher education and to provide an impactful service opportunity for UC Berkeley students. Through a loan-based program, accompanied with mentoring, tutoring, and professional development curricula, promising high school students in the Oakland community will be selected as … Continue reading “SeedEd Capital”
- Team Members: Camilo Ossa, Elizabeth Mossessian
- Improving Student Life
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
Adelante – Youth Empowerment Program
The Adelante Youth Empowerment Program is a 6-week summer program that serves to motivate at-risk Mexican youth to pursue higher education and professional careers. This is achieved through the use of academic competition-based learning and entrepreneurship-based learning where students lead and develop community development projects. The project will develop fun and engaging STEM and … Continue reading “Adelante – Youth Empowerment Program”
- Team Members: Agueda Castro, Jose Flores, Cristian De Leon
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
Hombres Verdaderos
This project will improve women’s health outcomes by stopping domestic violence (DV) before it starts. Leveraging behavioral tools, the program engages young, at-risk adolescent boys, ages 11 to 14 years old, from poor districts in Barranquilla, Colombia. Through workshops and youth-driven media campaigns, the boys will learn about DV prevention and become advocates for change. … Continue reading “Hombres Verdaderos”
- Team Members: Nerissa Nance, Aarthi Rao, Jairo Alexander Martinez, Luz Vanessa Sanchez
- Global Health
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
USeeData
As a field, environmental science has not yet had the impact it needs to have on the general public, mostly due to limited amount of exposure to information. A powerful visualization tool would help bring all types environmental causes to the forefront and help the general population understand how the environment influences their day to … Continue reading “USeeData”
- Team Members: Anthony Suen, Daniel Dobalian, Jeremy Wan, Kyle Patel, Christine Puthoff
- Open Data for Development
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
MAMA-OPE
Mama Ope proposes to develop a cell phone based lung-monitoring device that could be used to radically improve the early diagnosis of pneumonia. The affordability and wide availability of cell phones make them an innovative platform for the development of simple medical diagnosis capabilities for use in the field. This is especially true in … Continue reading “MAMA-OPE”
- Team Members: Besufekad Shifferaw, Olivia Koburongo, Power Mukisa, Brian Turyabagye
- Global Health
- Makerere University
- 2015