Big Ideas @ Berkeley -- We hope you will join us!
Big Ideas @ Berkeley -- We hope you will join us!
2011 Big Ideas Winner, 1st Place Prize
2012 First Place "Scaling Up" Pitch Day Contest
Acopio is a social venture that seeks to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers through better management of source information. To this end, Acopio offers software that leverages cost-effective technologies to improve the flow of information throughout the coffee value chain.
2011 Big Ideas Winner, 2nd Place Co-Winner
Emerging and Neglected Diseases
Vietnam Tooth Project is a multi-level educational program that focuses on oral health and nutrition for children from 6 months to 6 years of age in Vietnam.
2011 Big Ideas Winner, 2nd Place
Scaling Up
Future Scientist is a student led organization that helps to create flourishing, stable communities by incorporating science education into developmental projects. These projects are planned with careful consideration of the needs of the people and what can be sustained in their current way of life.
2011 Big Ideas Winner, 3rd Place Co-Winner
Scaling Up
The mission of the Berkeley Student Food Cooperative is to provide fresh, healthy, environmentally sustainable, and ethically produced food at an affordable price to Berkeley students.
Graduate students in the bioengineering lab at UC Berkeley have discovered a way to turn an ordinary cellphone in a microscope. The Cellscope can capture, organize and transmit images of blood cells, lesions and infections taken anywhere in world - a great advance for the developing world and medical imaging.
2011Big Ideas Winner, 1st Place
Scaling Up
A group of students from UC-Berkeley is developing an affordable solar water heater for use in developing countries.
2011 Big Ideas Honorary Winner
Social Justice and Community Engagement
The mission of the Suitcase Clinic is to promote the health and overall well-being of underserved individuals through service provision, cooperative learning, and collective action among community and professional volunteers, students, and participants.
