PREP/T-PREP

Maker Design Expo

PREP & T-PREP Maker Design Expo

Friday July 31, 2026

Jarvis Auditorium, Grimes Engineering Center

The Maker Design Studio (MDS) is an intensive short-course for incoming Berkeley Engineering freshman and transfer students created by UC Berkeley the Pre-Engineering Program and Professor Scott Moura. This design and innovation-focused module is part of the summer programs at UC Berkeley called PREP (Pre-Engineering Program) and T-PREP (Transfer Pre-Engineering Program). MDS teaches students to rapidly ideate, design and prototype innovative engineering systems. To this end, we use the "Sprint" design process recently popularized within the start-up community.

Groups present their product pitches to a panel of judges, Shark Tank-style at the final day of the Pre-Engineering Program and the Transfer Pre-Engineering Program.

Agenda

9:00a - 9:30a Breakfast

9:30a - 10:00a PREP/T-PREP Introduction + Judge Introduction

10:00a - 12:00n Presentations

12:00p - 12:45p Lunch

12:45p - 2:45p Presentations

2:45p - 3:30p Awards & Closing Remarks

RSVP form

Judges

David Yee (Berkeley SkyDeck; Meta, formerly)
Rob Cho (Energy Systems Group)
Dominic Lam (NVIDIA)
Teresa Solorzano-DeBar (Everpure)
Carolyn Chiao (Everpure)
Marta Lokhava (Stellar Development Foundation)

Asbah Wasim (California Department of Technology)
Jesus Villalobos (BlackRock)
Debbie Kelsey (Horizon Technology Enterprises)
Maribel Jaquez (Anduril Industries)
Hector Perez (it's a secret, ok)
Don Kelsey (The Clorox Company, formerly)

Instructions for Judges

Ask questions during Q&A period.
Vote for top projects at end of each session, using the provided QR code.
Interact with students!

Instructions for Students

Upload your slides and other relevant files (e.g. videos) to [TBD]
Attend and support your fellow PREP / T-PREP students.
Vote for top projects at end of each session, using the provided QR code.

Program

Morning Session

Human Well-Being, Safety, Security, Mobility

EasyLift: Helping You Get Up. Every Time. (PREP)
Juno Mobility Module: Safety for the mobility impaired (T-PREP)
RollSteady by EquiTech Labs (T-PREP)
Nexus: Connecting when every second matters (PREP)
SoundSight: Danger has a direction — now you can see it (T-PREP)
FurLink: Every Tail Deserves Smart Care (PREP)
BIPSENSE: Smart Alerts for a Safer Bay (PREP)
Sentinel: Your Car’s First Line of Defense (T-PREP)
SteerClear: With SteerClear, help is always near (PREP)
Alpha Mobility: Leading the climb one wheel at a time (PREP)
Lot Spot: Smart Parking, real time access (PREP)

Afternoon Session

Communication, Resilient Buildings, Environment, Water

Keylang: Unlocking a world without language barriers (PREP)
AXIStransist: Transportation has no limits (PREP)
Ro-Builder: Rebuilding Homes not Houses (T-PREP)
AeroTemp: Heat. Hope. Horizons. Earthquakes fear innovation (PREP)
Valley Peak: Cooling the future with ancient designs (PREP)
Win Do’ers: Your solution for Privacy, Light, and Air (T-PREP)
Dust Busters presents SPOT ✅ : Need a SPOT—Settled Particulate Optical Tracker—check? (T-PREP)
Studio Rewear: Because Great Style Shouldn’t Cost The Earth. (PREP)
Filtr: Bringing oil filtration to the next level (PREP)
Puraflow: From Nature. Back to you (PREP)
Soluph: Delivering clarity with every drop (PREP)

Awards

People's Choice Award

PREP :

T-PREP :

Judge's Top Choice

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T-PREP AM :

PREP PM :

T-PREP :

Best Presentation

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Best Prototype

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Greatest Impact

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