Foodful.ly
In this time of plenty, many throw out their food ¬ mostly because they do nott know how to cook it, or they do not remember what they have bought. Foodful.ly works to stop food waste by addressing these two use problems – tracking food purchases using e-receipts and sending spoilage reminders and recipes … Continue reading “Foodful.ly”
- Team Members: Brianna McGuire, Jeff Kessler, Justin Woodjack
- Food and Agriculture
- UC Davis
- 2015
MyReadingTablet (MRT)
This project will create a portable reading device – MyReadingTablet (MRT) – equipped with breakthrough WordSwitch technology, which will allow diverse learners to successfully navigate complex texts despite limited reading proficiencies. The hundreds of e-books pre-loaded on MRT will feature a variety of topics/genres to spark curiosity and maintain young children’s reading motivation. The … Continue reading “MyReadingTablet (MRT)”
- Team Members: Lisa Fu, Gemma Gooding, Thomas Heeren, Kate Hou
- Information Technology for Society, Mobiles for Reading
- Monash University
- 2015
BallotPath
Voter disenfranchisement is at an all-time high. From national offices all the way down to local school and water boards, people are frustrated with their elected officials. BallotPath is leveling the playing field so that the average citizen can understand who currently represents them and how they can run for office. People enter their address … Continue reading “BallotPath”
- Team Members: Andre Moeller, Jim Cupples, Gregory Bell, Tyler Wade, Derek Zheng, Eugene Woo
- Cities and Communities, Conflict & Development
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
The Biodiesel Project
The goal of the Biodiesel Project is to provide UC Berkeley with a sustainable means of acquiring biodiesel as a cleaner, alternative energy source for use in campus vehicles and equipment. This self-sustaining initiative will provide a fulfilling hands-on experience for Berkeley engineers, educate Berkeley students about renewable energy resources, and reduce the consumption … Continue reading “The Biodiesel Project”
- Team Members: Apurva Pradhan, William Mavrode, Jingting Wu, Christiaan Khurana, Xingkai Li, Andrew Cho, Jay Yostanto
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
Creating Decodable Readers in Haitian Creole
This project employs local teachers to create and teach reading materials that integrate Haiti’s mother-tongue language and native culture. At its core, it is a software application that enables writers to create books for beginning readers using a systematic phonics approach. Based on customized wordlists for sequential texts that start with the most basic … Continue reading “Creating Decodable Readers in Haitian Creole”
- Team Members: Sandra Edwards-Thro, Lydia Boike, Aidan Fielding, Zhane Richardson
- Information Technology for Society, Mobiles for Reading
- College of William & Mary
- 2015
PINVoice
PINVoice is a communication platform that tackles the problem of wage arrears experienced by construction workers in China with an Interactive Voice Response system. By acting as a virtual intermediary between labor supplier subcontractors and construction workers, PINVoice allows labor supplier subcontractors to reach a much wider range of workers beyond current geographic constraints, and … Continue reading “PINVoice”
- Team Members: Timothy Meyers, Faye Ip, Sophia Lay, Jenny Lo
- Information Technology for Society
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
LGBT Cultural Competency Training
This project seeks to create a set of electronic training modules that can be taken by individuals who work with LGBT refugees and asylum-seekers anywhere in the world. These trainings would help eliminate inherent bias, misinterpretation, and discrimination present in these systems toward LGBT individuals. The modules would be made available in a variety of … Continue reading “LGBT Cultural Competency Training”
- Team Members: Aaron Kitchens, Beth Rollow, Amanda Hull
- Cities and Communities, Conflict & Development
- Texas A&M University
- 2015
AfroArt East Africa: Artist Stories
The urban arts centers of Nairobi, Kigali, Dar-es-Salaam, and Kampala are hubs for thousands of young and established visual artists, many of whom work in collectives or group studio spaces. The work coming out of East Africa is radiant and intelligent — it reveals slices of contemporary life from incisive, humorous and optimistic perspectives. … Continue reading “AfroArt East Africa: Artist Stories”
- Team Members: Susan Eberhard, Mugo Mutothori, Nenneya Shields, Dane Verrtah, Kun-Hyoung Kim
- Art & Social Change, Creative Expression for Social Justice
- UC Berkeley
- 2015
Gyaan
Gyaan is an ecosystem for collaborative, inquiry-based, leveled reading that merges task-based and storytelling approaches to increase reading comprehension in early-stage readers. To build reading comprehension for early readers in an informal, collaborative, accessible way, the project will create a system that levels texts from existing mobile libraries and recommends them based on the … Continue reading “Gyaan”
- Team Members: Kathryn Basye, Sufia Siddiqui, Siddharth Agrawal, Ankita Bhosle, Divyakumar Menghani
- Information Technology for Society, Mobiles for Reading
- UC Berkeley
- 2015