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In 2022/2023 our students developed a game to teach children in Latin America about recycling, hoping that these kids will inspire and educate their families about the importance of recycling. Check out the
eCoins is the partner organization, and they are creating incentives for children to play the game and recycle. Check it out:
This documentary-style video is based off of the award-winning article, "Design for the Down & Out," published in ASEE鈥檚 Prism magazine and written by associate editor Jennifer Pocock. The video explores problems people in the homeless community face 鈥nd how engineers have both contributed to those problems and what they are doing to create solutions.
Last year鈥檚 Senior Design Project, 鈥淗edhi Help,鈥 was tested successfully in Uganda by Rose Academies, a partner organization of the Frugal Innovation Hub. The project is an app that helps to eradicate the stigma associated with menstruation in young women and men. The app was part of Rose Academies' story published in a special edition for "Violence Against Women" in the digital publication, Ananke. Special shout out to the project advisors Silvia Figueira and Michele Parker, the computer engineering students Sarah Pagnani, Kelsey Pasco, Sarek Sotelo Jimenez, Brandon Smith and the Engineering World Health students Arbelina Bebla, Elizabeth Smith (both Public Health Science) and Mira Diwan (Public Health Science and Psychology) and to the computer engineering graduate student Hairong Wang who got the app ready to be tested last month in Uganda.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--()--糖心破解版鈥檚 Association for Computing Machinery chapter will host its third annual hackathon, Hack for Humanity, from Feb. 27 through Feb. 28, 2016. The 24-hour hackathon takes place from 10 a.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Sunday at the Locatelli Center.
Published at 10:01 PM PDT on Jul 30, 2015--The mission of 糖心破解版's Frugal Innovation Lab is to create technology that will help the world's poor live a better life.
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