Wallflower Ventilation
Traditional central heating and cooling systems treat an entire house as if it were one room with one uniform temperature. Furthermore, these systems fail to provide room-specific temperature control, instead heating or cooling the entire home based on the readings of a single temperature sensor in the thermostat. By installing a wirelessly controlled vent … Continue reading “Wallflower Ventilation”
- Team Members: Eric Burger and Ari Novack
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
PT-E Generator
PT-E generator proposes to build a device that can harness the energy generated by the impact of moving vehicles onto highway and city road surfaces. This energy is then converted into electricity that can be stored in batteries or uploaded into the electric grids to power residential and public facilities. The device uses the … Continue reading “PT-E Generator”
- Team Members: Tuan Hoang and Phuc Le
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa with Mobile Phone Interface
This project seeks to provide a feasible and sustainable solution for growing energy demand in Africa. Its core innovation is in the village-scale solar power system that is currently being prototyped at UC Berkeley. One team member’s extensive contacts in renewable energy organizations in Ghana gives this team a platform and local access to … Continue reading “Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa with Mobile Phone Interface”
- Team Members: Louis Kang, Ivan Maric, and Henry Wang
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
India Smiles
India Smiles is a 3-year project aimed at alleviating childhood malnutrition and poor oral health outcomes caused by the transition from traditional agricultural-based diets to processed snack and “junk foods” in India. Through an effective entrepreneurial and social marketing model for community-based distribution of oral health care products and services by local community health … Continue reading “India Smiles”
- Team Members: Hani Ahir, Priyanka Athavale, Ashmita Baral, Amina Khimani, Nikita Patel, Priya Patel, Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, Radka Varimezova
- Global Health, Maternal & Child Health
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
Cash FLOW
Cash FLOW aims to address the problem of low financial literacy by bringing personal finance classes to high schools. Through these classes, high school students will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to make informed financial decisions during and after college. Currently, the team leads a weekly “Teaching Financial Literacy” DeCal course that … Continue reading “Cash FLOW”
- Team Members: Leanne Fan, Lizi Feng, Brian Kim, Siranush Manukyan, Akash Patel, Felicity Tang, Dennis Vidalj, Alice Wang
- Financial Inclusion
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
Push Me, Pull You: O-Chem, the Fun Way!
This proposal’s plan is to develop a computer program that can be used to practice electron-pushing mechanisms in organic chemistry. Students struggle significantly in electron-arrow pushing mechanisms, a critical part of an organic chemistry course’s grade. By implementing this project, Push Me, Pull You hopes to increase students’ understanding of this phenomenon in organic … Continue reading “Push Me, Pull You: O-Chem, the Fun Way!”
- Team Members: Norman Bae, Prithvi Bomdica, Nithya Lingampalli, Rahul Nayak, Vinay Viswanadham, and Hubert Wang
- Improving Student Life
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
UC Berkeley Science Shop: Connecting Communities to University Research
Many science students at UC Berkeley view science as a tool that allows them to advance the frontiers of human knowledge and have a positive impact on society. For many students, the gap between their work and its real impact on society makes it difficult to believe that their work is relevant, leading to … Continue reading “UC Berkeley Science Shop: Connecting Communities to University Research”
- Team Members: Karen Andrade, Erik Behar, Sushma Bhatia, Hekia Bodwitch, Melissa Eitzel, Jennifer Palomino, Leah Rubin
- Improving Student Life
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
100 Strong
100 Strong is an innovative non-profit that will give at-risk teenage girls in San Francisco the skills they need to take leadership roles in bettering their communities. First, one hundred teenage girls will be invited to participate in the program. The girls will be paired with a UC Berkeley undergraduate and, together, the pair … Continue reading “100 Strong”
- Team Members: Vrinda Agarwal, Julie Brown, Madeeha Ghori, Smriti Joneja, Ruhi Nath
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
Vision From the Bottom: Providing a Brighter Future
Vision from the Bottom aims to bypass the costs of customized eyeglasses and vision screening by implementing a social business model and supply chain network to deliver easy, inexpensive and effective vision correction to people in Cambodia. Using recent innovations in self-refraction technology for vision screening and standardized eyeglass products for vision correction, Vision … Continue reading “Vision From the Bottom: Providing a Brighter Future”
- Team Members: Silvina Bee and Moon Parks
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley
- 2013