MIT IDEAS GLOBAL CHALLENGE

Spring Pitches – Join a team

kmytty — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:58:57 +0000

Last evening we had our Spring Generator Dinner. Over 140 people joined us to hear from three past winning teams – Recovers.org, EyeNetra, Leveraged Freedom Chair (GRIT) and OpenIR. 13 individuals pitched ideas and their skills. Below are the slides from the evening, if you’d like to reach out to anyone who joined us. Thanks [...]

Offer your help + meet our 39 MIT student-led teams

kmytty — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:44:17 +0000

[This is the latest newsletter from MIT IDEAS Global Challenge. If you'd like to subscribe, add your name and email here.] Happy New Year from Cambridge, Massachusetts! So far this year, 39 teams are entering; teams are currently working to develop their ideas like a hand-powered centrifuge that aims to improve the diagnostic capabilities in [...]

Mass Customization in Prosthetic Care

ideasgc_teams — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:50:36 +0000

We’ve been up to a lot here at The BETH Project. Thanks in part to the support of the IDEAS Global Challenge and MIT Public Service Center, we’ve been busy prototyping, testing and talking to patients and prosthetists. The BETH Project team first came together at a MIT H@cking Medicine conference in early 2012, gathering [...]

Teams looking for teammates / Ideas pitched at the Generator Dinner

kmytty — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:13:14 +0000

Twice a year we have a Generator Dinner to create a space and gathering where teams can form, people can meet and hear more about the IDEAS Global Challenge. This year more than 30 people signed up to pitch their ideas to recruit team members. Here’s the list of ideas pitched this year and a [...]

Essmart: Building a channel through which products can sell

ideasgc_teams — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 01:33:34 +0000

It has been a busy few months for the Essmart team. After the encouraging results of our pilot in January 2012 and the support of organizations like the IDEAS Global Challenge, we returned to India to launch our enterprise in August. For the past two months, we have been focused on doing – on building [...]

Changing attitudes about recycling in Lagos

ideasgc_teams — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:56:37 +0000

In August, after months of market research, partnership development, fundraising, and planning, the Wecyclers team left Cambridge for Lagos, Nigeria. We want to improve urban environments in low-income areas by empowering communities to tackle the problem of unmanaged waste. Our solution is to offer convenient recycling services paired with a rewards program. We knew that [...]

Hitting Backspace – Recovers.org Focus on Preparedness

kmytty — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:00:48 +0000

After winning the IDEAS Global Challenge, our team took a hard look at our project’s mission and vision. One of our greatest strengths as first a student group and then a company has been that we never assume we are doing the right thing. I can imagine nothing less helpful to disaster recovery than to [...]

Lemelson-MIT Award For Global Innovation

Nathan_Birnbaum — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:11:58 +0000

Masters Class Taught By UC Berkeley Professor, Ashok Gadgil: June 21st 2012 “Technology Innovations for the poorest 2 Billion On The Planet” Professor Gadgil spoke in front of a mixed audience in the Ray and Maria Stata Center this morning. Gadgil, a world-renowned inventor, professor, and scientist received the 2012 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation. [...]

Pitches and Posters: An Evening of Ideas

Bina — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:15:17 +0000

By guest author Vijay Shilpiekandula, Volunteer for MIT IDEAS Lights, camera, action! The stage was set and the players – MIT teams, armed with posters showcasing their ideas — thrived in the spotlight. The MIT Stata Center saw a flurry of activity on April 30, 2012 as 37 teams led by MIT students pitched their [...]

MIT IDEAS Global Challenge now on Pinterest

Yangbo Du — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:45:21 +0000

All IDEAS entrants, if you have visual content you would like to display to generate publicity for your team as public voting goes on, there is now a Pinterest board dedicated to showcasing all teams in the Global Challenge, MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Teams. E-mail yangbodu@alum.mit.edu with your Pinterest username so that you can be [...]