Politify
Politify (www.politify.us) is the first web application to forecast the financial impacts of political scenarios. Users input their demographic information and then Politify projects the effect that a candidate or policy will have on that person’s well-being—in dollars, including changes to tax incidence and government services. In addition to personal impacts, the user can … Continue reading “Politify”
- Team Members: Nikita Bier, Jeremy Blalock, Amy Guterman
- Information Technology for Society
- UC Berkeley
- 2012
Loccasion: Smartphone App for Effective Engagement between Organizations and Students
Loccasion is a smartphone application that uses geo-fence technology to make the interactions between campus organizations and students more effective and sustainable. This application is intended to improve the way students receive information about clubs and groups that they are interested in because up until now, the distribution of flyers on Sproul Plaza is … Continue reading “Loccasion: Smartphone App for Effective Engagement between Organizations and Students”
- Team Members: Tony Chen, Louis (Jeong Seuk) Kang
- Improving Student Life
- UC Berkeley
- 2012
EMS: Shirati
EMS: Shirati was founded by four Cal seniors in collaboration with the Shirati KMT Hospital in Tanzania and Bay Area NGO AISCS. The team aims to expand upon the the hospital’s Emergency Medical System (EMS), which some of the team members helped establish in 2009. The current objective is to reduce maternal mortality throughout the … Continue reading “EMS: Shirati”
- Team Members: Nick Hu, Yulia Zektser, Alejndro LaRiviere, Sara Adelman, Bwire Chirangi
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley
- 2012
Shifting the Paradigm in Poverty Reduction: Applying the Teach For Health Framework in San Ramón, Nicaragua
Teach For Health, an NGO founded by UCSF and Berkeley students, won 1st place in the 2010 Global Poverty Alleviation category. The team proposed a model to catalyze cost-effective social change in rural, low-income villages in Nicaragua by training motivated community organizers, assisting local health promoters in Community Diagnosis and Action Planning (CDAP) and building … Continue reading “Shifting the Paradigm in Poverty Reduction: Applying the Teach For Health Framework in San Ramón, Nicaragua”
- Team Members: Kris Coontz, Noah Hawthorne, Andrew Cullen, Sierra Hawthorne, Aurora Gomez, Kelly Quinn, Sara Van Acker, Anita Roberts, Harinder Chahal, Yakira Teitel
- Scaling Up
- UC San Francisco
- 2012
Vibrant Aging
As the number of aging Americans increases over the next 40 years, clinicians, city planners, government employees, program administrators and caregivers are ill-equipped to do much more than help Baby Boomers maintain their health as they age. The need for innovative thinking, discourse, and practice in the field … Continue reading “Vibrant Aging”
- Team Members: Julie Miller
- Art & Social Change, Creative Expression for Social Justice
- UC Berkeley
- 2012
PiE Fall STEM Mentorship Program
Pioneers in Engineering (PiE) will begin a year-round mentorship program for UC Berkeley students to share their passion about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) with Bay-Area high school students and inspire them to pursue higher education in STEM fields. In the fall, Berkeley students from PiE will interact with students at targeted underprivileged high … Continue reading “PiE Fall STEM Mentorship Program”
- Team Members: Amy Fu, Robert Luan, Dennis Wai, Or Weizman, Baladitya Yellapragada, William Wheeler
- Improving Student Life
- UC Berkeley
- 2012
Nuestra Agua Safe Water Franchise
Diarrheal disease from drinking unsafe water is one of the leading causes of death in Mexico. Today, millions of Mexicans in low-income communities are still at high risk of waterborne diseases because of inadequate water infrastructure and insufficient water quality control. In particular, safe water remains unavailable to those who cannot afford commercially sold bottled … Continue reading “Nuestra Agua Safe Water Franchise”
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2012
Project E-du-waste: Educating for a Sustainable Future
The E-du-waste project focuses on Guiyu, China, the largest electronic waste dumping ground in the world and provides an approach to help the people who are forced to rummage through E-waste for survival. The project will focus on educating middle school students in Guiy by organizing an Englishlanguage summer day-camp over 5 days for … Continue reading “Project E-du-waste: Educating for a Sustainable Future”
- Team Members: Wenyu Zhang, Tianhui Diao, Joy Sim, Yubai Zhou
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley
- 2012
Vuwa Enterprise: Shower Water Drip Irrigation System
Vuwa seeks to combat poor farming yields, low income and the declining living standards due to the high cost of water in Kenya. The Vuwa Enterprise has designed a scalable shower water drip irrigation system capable of irrigating cash crops for farmers in Kenya and other developing countries. The product sells at an affordable 1483 … Continue reading “Vuwa Enterprise: Shower Water Drip Irrigation System”
- Team Members: Cindy Khandoker, Nayha Zubair, Aleana Zaldana, Silviano Valdez, Earlham
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley
- 2012