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The 10th annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition!

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Announcing the 10thth annual

Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC)

 Students: Do you have a world-changing idea?

 

The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) is a social venture plan competition open to enrolled university students in any discipline around the world. Applicants submit an executive summary of a business idea that both addresses an issue related to global poverty and will be implemented in the developing world.

The deadline for this year’s competition is Tuesday November 12, 2013 at midnight Pacific Time. Semi-finalist teams (about 15-20) will be notified in early December, and will be invited to compete at the week-long competition held at the University of Washington in Seattle February 24-28, 2014, where they will receive coaching, network with hundreds of local health, development and business professionals, attend an event with the Seattle Rotary, and finally, compete for cash and in-kind prizes, including a grand prize of $12,500, a $10,000 Global Health prize, a $10,000 ICT prize, and other prizes from the Rotary and NCIIA, detailed along with their criteria here.

Applications will open in August, 2013. Learn more about GSEC at our website.

gsec@uw.edu | GSEC on Facebook |GSEC Home Page

 

UW Environmental Innovation Challenge-Panel of Past Participants: Preparing for the EIC!

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UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
April 4, 2013

If you’ve got a passion for cleantech and the desire to make an impact, the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge is for you. In the EIC, interdisciplinary student teams define an environmental problem, design a solution, produce a prototype, and create a business summary that demonstrates market opportunity and the potential for impact. Prize money is available! $10,000 Grand Prize, $5,000 Second Prize, three $2,500 Best Idea Prizes. Learn more.

Panel of Past EIC Participants – What you need to know to be winners.
Wednesday January 23, 5:30-7pm, Dempsey Hall 211 (Herbold Innovation Lab)
Learn what it takes to win the EIC. Past participants will share thoughts on identifying market opportunity, putting together a winning team, and things they wish they’d done differently. Pizza will be provided.

Coming up…

EIC Intent to Submit
Deadline: Sunday February 3

Preliminary team information is due on February 3. Intent to Submit form will be available on soon.

See the calendar of all EIC deliverables.

FAA Design Competition

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FAA’s Challenges Students to Develop Mobile Apps!

The FAA’s Design Competition for Universities is offered for the 2012 – 2013 academic year and includes a new Design Challenge Innovative Application of FAA Data. 

The new Innovative Application of FAA Data design challenge challenges students to use FAA, industry, travel and airport-relevant data to develop a mobile application for use for by smart phones and tablets that is innovative and commercially viable. The Competition’s broad challenge categories embrace many engineering, science, information technology, psychology, and management disciplines.  The new challenge particularly encourages designs from interdisciplinary teams.  The FAA is making data available to student developers participating in the Competition.

Using the combination of aviation data and other data, the application should be of interest to the public and assist with a range of considerations such as, but not limited to: total travel time, traffic delays, airport security congestion, and flight schedules and delays. Students must follow design guidelines in developing and presenting their mobile app. The mobile app will be fully described in the design package. In addition, the working prototype must be demonstrated by the individual or team designer in a video posted to a password protected online site. Specific posting information will be provided on the Competition website. The Mobile App Design Package and video uplink are due on April 19, 2013.  Note: For this Challenge area, students are encouraged to form interdisciplinary teams. Students who do so can receive additional points in the evaluation process. Individual designers should also show evidence of an interdisciplinary approach. See Evaluation Criteria for the Innovative Application of Aviation Data Challenge as posted on the website: http://FAADesignCompetition.odu.edu

The Competition is open to individual and student teams at U.S. colleges and universities (both undergraduate and graduate) working under the mentorship of a faculty advisor.  Winners earn cash awards and first place winners have the opportunity and travel funds to present their design at FAA Headquarters in summer 2013.  A notice of intent is strongly encouraged. Design submissions are due April 19, 2013.

UW Environmental Innovation Challenge!

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If you have a passion for cleantech, the smarts to play in the emerging green economy, and the desire to leverage your background to make an impact, the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge <http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/cie/eic/Pages/eic.aspx>  can provide just the platform (and the funding!) you’ve been looking for; but hurry, prototype funding applications are due December 16th!

HOW IT WORKS

Interdisciplinary student teams define a cleantech problem, design and develop a solution, and work together to produce both a prototype (proof of concept or computer simulation) and a 5 to 7-page business summary that outlines the market opportunity. At the Challenge on April 4, 2013, students pitch their concepts and demonstrate their product/idea to a group of judges that includes technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors. Teams are judged on their prototypes, business summaries, and potential for impact. (The grand prize is $10,000.) Continue reading →

$400,000 Student Prize Competition: Technology Innovations for Primary Care

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We want to call your attention to the upcoming fifth annual round of this exciting award competition for engineering students, nation-wide. This generous Prize, sponsored by a private donor and administered by the MGH and CIMIT, is designed to reward technology innovations directed at clinically important needs in Primary Healthcare. The top three student teams will receive $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000, respectively!

Details of the award can be at www.primarycareprize.org.  A Prize flyer is available at http://cimit.org/images/grants/CIMIT_Prize_Flyer_2013.pdf for posting or distribution.  As potentially helpful background, the announcement of the winners of last year’s awards can also be found at www.primarycareprize.org.

The first step for an entrant is the generation of a two-page preliminary description by January 21th, 2013.  From those, ten Finalists will be chosen, and each of those will receive $10,000 to use in their work toward the full final entry due in June.  The three major winners will then be chosen and the funds disbursed to their institutions for stewardship.

The entry criteria for this major prize will simply require the students to obtain an “Institutional Letter of Support” from a Department Head, business official or Dean.

UW Environmental Innovation Challenge Student Mixer Nights!

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UW Environmental Innovation Challenge

Student Mixer Nights – Food & drink provided!

If you’ve got a passion for cleantech, the smarts to play in the emerging green economy, and the desire to make an impact, the UW EIC provides the platform – AND a chance to win $10,000.
Looking for a team/teammate for the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge? You’ll find what you’re looking for in this speed-dating format.

Attend one or both of these sessions:

Wed, Nov 7, 5:30-7:00 pm Electrical Engineering Building B 303 (EEB 303)

Tues Nov 13, 6-7:30 pm Savery Hall 260

This session follows the Environmental Innovation class which you’re welcome to attend:  “Kicking the Commodity Habit: On being Grown out of Place”, Dr. Steve Jones, Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences, Director of the Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center, WSU. (4:20 pm – 5:50 pm)

 

To find out more about the UW EIC – watch this 10 minute video.

 

Questions?

Pam Tufts ptufts@uw.edu

Connect with us on Facebook – UW EIC Facebook

Shobe Prize Application Open

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HCDE logoThe Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) is pleased to announce the third annual design competition for the Shobe Prize.

Student teams competing will submit a proposal for a tech-focused or software-based design project by December 7, 2012. Finalists will then pitch their proposal to the panel of judges in winter 2013. The winning designs could be a web service, mobile device app, or another service for personal computing and communications. Continue reading →

Student Safety Technology Design Competition

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The 23rd ESV Conference Organizers welcome you to the 5th Student Safety Technology Design Competition (SSTDC), a competition that offers unique opportunities to students who compete. All undergraduate and graduate students from ESV member countries in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific are invited to participate.

WHAT IS THE SSTDC?

The Student Safety Technology Design Competition gives young scholars an exciting opportunity to design, build, and demonstrate a cost-effective conceptual scale model of a vehicle safety technology.

Continue reading →

James Dyson Award

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The James Dyson award is run by the James Dyson Foundation – the charitable arm of Dyson, which supports engineering education.  It’s the eighth year of the award, with James Dyson at the helm, and the Foundation is seeking entries.

The competition is for college-age students, many actually submit their final design projects.  There is a $16,000 cash prize for the winner, and the Foundation also gives $16,000 to the student’s university department.

Previous winners have tackled issues from energy, to transportation, to affordable prosthetic limbs and each found a unique way to answer a problem, big or small.

The submission process is quick and easy. Entrants submit footage, images and sketches to www.jamesdysonaward.org along with a brief synopsis detailing their design process and inspiration. The more creative the better. Their ideas will be evaluated by Dyson engineers, a panel of international design experts and ultimately James Dyson.  The winner will be announced November 8, 2012.

Entries close August 2 and the winner will be announced in November.  More on the award below and here: www.jamesdysonaward.org. Continue reading →

Collegiate Inventors Competition

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Collegiate Inventors Competition logoCollegiate Inventors Competition® Seeking inventive Entries From Students
Program recognizes students for their innovative work and awards cash prizes

North Canton, OH (February 6, 2012)—The Invent Now Collegiate Inventors Competition is now accepting entries for its 2012 Competition

For the past twenty-two years the Collegiate Inventors Competition has recognized and honored student inventors whose inventions could one day make significant contributions to society. This year over $100,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winning undergraduate and graduate students and their advisors. Continue reading →