May 31, 2009
Went to BASES Social-Entrepreneurship Challenge finals on Friday since I am going to be an officer next year. $50,000 were on the line with $25,000 going to the first place team. All the groups were really impressive. The judges were also great. The judges included Matt Flannery, Co-founder and CEO of Kiva.org; Debra Dunn, board member for the Skoll Foundation; and Dr. Don Francis, who helped discover HIV. I am looking forward to being on the Social-E team next year. Above is a picture I took during re-motion design’s presentation. The results were realeased so here is a quick summary of the groups: First Place Tie: Respira Design - Respira is developing a $1 device to effectively deliver medication from an inhaler to a child’s lungs. With 2 years of fieldwork in Mexican clinics, they are planning to rollout their product to the Mexican market. Re:Motion Designs - Re:Motion is designing affordable prosthetic components for amputees in the developing world.  Their first product is a $20 polymer-based polycentric knee joint called the JaipurKnee, which has been tried on over 40 patients in India. Second Place Tie: Sustanable Health Entreprises (SHE) - SHE is initiating businesses in the developing world that yield social and finacial returns in the health sector. The first venture they are franchising in the developing world is an affordable, eco-friendly sanitary pad for woman when they mestruate. Stanford Educational Entreprises (SEE) College Prep - With their unique curriculum that incoprates elements such as spanish cognates and overcoming testing stereotypes, SEE is providing affordable and effective SAT preparation to low-income students. By offering a paid services to higher income students, SEE is producting a sustainable and competitie program that is tripling its size this summer. Third Place Tie: OneBreath - With the fear of a pandemic flu outbreak, OneBreath’s affordable, portable, and disposable $75 ventilator hopes to increase the access to ventilators and decrease the amount of deaths caused by lack of access to ventilators. Driptech - Driptech Inc. is producing a low cost, low pressure irrigation system for the farmers of the developing world. Driptech’s innovation comes from its unique manufacturing system that will allow millions of farmers to take advantage of drig irrigation when dealing with water scarcity.

Went to BASES Social-Entrepreneurship Challenge finals on Friday since I am going to be an officer next year. $50,000 were on the line with $25,000 going to the first place team. All the groups were really impressive. The judges were also great. The judges included Matt Flannery, Co-founder and CEO of Kiva.org; Debra Dunn, board member for the Skoll Foundation; and Dr. Don Francis, who helped discover HIV. I am looking forward to being on the Social-E team next year. Above is a picture I took during re-motion design’s presentation. The results were realeased so here is a quick summary of the groups:

First Place Tie:

Respira Design - Respira is developing a $1 device to effectively deliver medication from an inhaler to a child’s lungs. With 2 years of fieldwork in Mexican clinics, they are planning to rollout their product to the Mexican market.

Re:Motion Designs - Re:Motion is designing affordable prosthetic components for amputees in the developing world.  Their first product is a $20 polymer-based polycentric knee joint called the JaipurKnee, which has been tried on over 40 patients in India.


Second Place Tie:

Sustanable Health Entreprises (SHE) - SHE is initiating businesses in the developing world that yield social and finacial returns in the health sector. The first venture they are franchising in the developing world is an affordable, eco-friendly sanitary pad for woman when they mestruate.

Stanford Educational Entreprises (SEE) College Prep - With their unique curriculum that incoprates elements such as spanish cognates and overcoming testing stereotypes, SEE is providing affordable and effective SAT preparation to low-income students. By offering a paid services to higher income students, SEE is producting a sustainable and competitie program that is tripling its size this summer.

Third Place Tie:

OneBreath - With the fear of a pandemic flu outbreak, OneBreath’s affordable, portable, and disposable $75 ventilator hopes to increase the access to ventilators and decrease the amount of deaths caused by lack of access to ventilators.

Driptech - Driptech Inc. is producing a low cost, low pressure irrigation system for the farmers of the developing world. Driptech’s innovation comes from its unique manufacturing system that will allow millions of farmers to take advantage of drig irrigation when dealing with water scarcity.

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