Down to the Wire on Big Ideas@Berkeley’s IT for Society Competition
Announcing the 2015 Grand Prize Pitch Day Finalists!
Enabling Student Entrepreneurship: NextDrop
In 2011, Thejovardhana Kote, Emily Kumpel, Ari Olmos, and Anu Sridharan won in the Scaling Up category for NextDrop.NextDrop uses mobile technology to deliver text messages to citizens about the availability of water in their areas.
Enabling Student Entrepreneurship: Sam Kirschner and Jeremy Fiance’s Free Ventures
013, Sam Kirschner and Jeremy Fiance won in the Improving Student Life category for Free Ventures. Free Ventures is a UC Berkeley student group that provides guidance and resources for student-launched companies.
UC Berkeley Science Shop: Connecting Community to University for Research
Teaching Leadership, Female to Female
Frustrated yet motivated, the five decided to start a summer leadership camp for low-income female students and call it 100 Strong.
“The International Rescue Committee’s New Roots Program”: 2014 Finding Big Ideas Winning Essay
The first New Roots program started in 2009 at the San Diego office of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) when a group of Somali Bantu refugees were resettled in a nearby suburb.
“Rendering the Private Public”: 2014 Finding Big Ideas Winning Essay
I had so mentally prepared myself to come away jaded, to witness the messy side of development work, that when the big idea I encountered this summer hit me, it felt like a revelation.
Past Winners Take Their Ideas to the Next Level!
On Thursday, November 13 Big Ideas winners launched the first-ever partnerships with the world’s most established crowdfunding platform: Indiegogo.
