Winning Submissions
FIRST PENGUIN
— WINNER —
Obsolete office buildings transform into inclusive, sustainable, and multi-generational mixed-use development.
TEAM: Christina Brown, Christoph Eckrich, Yingying Yan
— RUNNER UP —
A modular hybrid space, allowing individuals with various needs to connect with each other through digital and in-person communications.
TEAM: Ashley Burbano, Franklin Guttman, Dorcas Lin, Tay Aras
READY-TO-GO
— WINNER —
Reduce inequities by enabling underprivileged communities to access immersive experiential learning using AI and augmented reality.
TEAM: Kshitij Parashar, Shreya Agrawal, Shalini Jain, Rebecca Cotton
— RUNNER UP —
Using radio to help students stuck at home without internet and smart devices access in rural areas
TEAM: Paras Chaudhary, Ami Kotia, Shreyash Sharnagat
WHY SO SERIOUS?
— WINNER —
The Bundled Unemployment Benefits Package (BUB) offers wrap-around services.
TEAM: Ernest Afflu, Nicole Annunziata, Emily Hwang, Rachel Bukowitz
— RUNNER UP —
Building Community Engagement Today for Better Support Tomorrow. To provide a framework to connect communities to the services available to their local communities before, during and after disasters.
TEAM: Eashan Chawla, Steffi Nazareth, Alexandra Kramer, Nicholas Wernink
All Submissions
(in alphabetical order)Bento creates sustainable and affordable delivery by allowing restaurants and low-income consumers to coordinate potentially wasted food.
(by Ana Baskinger, Bryce Li)
COVID-19 showed the fragmentation of our welfare systems. Using a national database, we aim to connect people to the support they need.
(by Dani Grodsky, Jordan Li, Shannon Dutchie)
A modular hybrid space, allowing individuals with various needs to connect with each other through digital and in-person communications.
(by Ashley Burbano, Franklin Guttman, Dorcas Lin, Tay Aras)
eVeRy is a Virtual Reality technology based educational app, enabling in-class contact and featuring an AI system for your academic success.
(by Ruiyu Zhu, Shutong Qi, Katie Hart, Yu-Jan Chang)
Food Amigo is a social initiative to effectively manage the surplus food that becomes waste, feed those in need and manage waste..
(by Shreya, Saachi, Meghna, Shreyanshi)
Getting you connected to your local social resources with data + giving the power of governing BACK to the people through civic education.
(by Mika Ansley, Ling Guo, Stefania La Vatiatta)
Utilize technology to create in-school programming, conducted virtually by multiple schools, to engage students across lines of difference.
(by Daniel Distler, Louis Bartholomew, Will Stewart)
We create a platform to promote responsible use of the internet.
(by Aditya Singh, Abhishek Parikh, Shubhang Seth, Vidhika Lonare)
American Infrastructure is crumbling and we don’t even know it. Train and hire civilians to become inspectors, and make the info public!
(by Dhairyya Agarwal, Jasmine Cheng, Anurag Dani, Osama Mohamed)
Replacing single use plastics with a community-based system of reusable packaging
(by Claire Chiang, Nick Hu, Belle Blanchard, Sophia Lau)
Obsolete office buildings transform into inclusive, sustainable, and multi-generational mixed-use development.
(by Christina Brown, Christoph Eckrich, Yingying Yan)
Pot-Bot: Urban Gardening Robot Project facilitating interaction between disabled individuals and community
(by Spoorthi Cherivirala, Chelsea Tang, Henry von Rintelen, Andrea Wan)
Building Community Engagement Today for Better Support Tomorrow. To provide a framework to connect communities to the services available to their local communities before, during and after disasters.
(by Eashan Chawla, Steffi Nazareth, Alexandra Kramer, Nicholas Wernink )
Reduce inequities by enabling underprivileged communities to access immersive experiential learning using AI and augmented reality.
(by Kshitij Parashar, Shreya Agrawal, Shalini Jain, Rebecca Cotton)
Re-designing education to adopt a value-centered approach.
(by Emily (Jue-Ling) Hsiao , Raquel Perez , Radha Tangirala)
We must equip students with the tools they need as American citizens to be civically engaged and well informed decision makers.
(by Alex Jackson, Rita Liu )
Re-imagining our past, present and future relationships with the built environment
(by Hensley Sejour, Ruisa Hinds, Alex Yi)
We propose Sprout. It offers a network of community care that allows children and families to thrive.
(by Jaclyn Saik, Jai Sawkar, Ian "Yann" Thomas)
Inspired by the Green Bronx Machine, we bring kids and seniors together through tech education and community gardening.
(by Ananya Ghosh Konomi Nakajima, Ned Rowland)
We are designing the smart cities of future bringing change to the established norms on health, sanitation, energy, infrastructure.
(by Prateek Maheshwari, Piyush Uthra, Piyush Kumar, Shreyans Mehta)
The Bundled Unemployment Benefits Package (BUB) offers wrap-around services.
(by Ernest Afflu, Nicole Annunziata, Emily Hwang, Rachel Bukowitz)
The Vitality Garden provides free instructions to build accessible, low cost window-mounted hydroponics systems for apartment gardening.
(by Adrien Krupenkin, Sherry Chen, Anna Gipsov)
When supporting underserved communities, it is important to not insert yourself in a space you do not occupy.
(by Kathy Zhang, Tanisha Joseph, Max Forsyth)
Using radio to help students stuck at home without internet and smart devices access in rural areas
(by Paras Chaudhary, Ami Kotia, Shreyash Sharnagat)
BIG THANKS to our judges
MMM, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
MBA/MSPPM, 2020, Heinz and Tepper
MISM 2000, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
ECE 1989, College of Engineering
Ph.D. 1999, College of Engineering
MS INI 1994, College of Engineering
MBA 2020, Tepper School of Business
MSIA 1982, Tepper School of Business