Bears Breaking Boundaries 2008

For our third annual "Bears Breaking Boundaries" competition, Big Ideas @ Berkeley and the Berkeley student government (ASUC) are teaming up with research centers and institutes across the campus to organize a more than $170,000 competition for new student ideas!

Check out some new contests in Energy & Environmental Innovation, Idea Labs, Partnerships for Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship in India and more!

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The winners of Bears Breaking Boundaries 2007 have been
announced! We received over 100 submissions and awarded $138,000 in prize money to the best student ideas in bio-inspired innovation, curricular innovation, global poverty reduction, green cities, improving student life, IT for Society, neglected diseases, open ideas, science and technology policy, and synthetic biology.

See 2007 winners.

Bears Breaking Boundaries 2006:

In March 2006, Big Ideas and the student government unveiled a $100,000 competition that was designed to find and fund students with creative, high-impact ideas related to curricular innovation, green cities, neglected diseases, clean energy, information technology for society, social entrepreneurship, science and technology policy, serious games, beautifying Berkeley, and designing the next "X Prize" - a $10 million private prize that launched the first private race into space. Judging was done by research centers across the campus. 29 student teams out of 91 submissions were awarded cash prizes for initial funding of their projects.

For further information about the 2006 BBB Contest:

See the Press Release

Read the Fact Sheet of Winners