There are exclusively xvi sum teams left inward the running for the University of San Diego’s Social Innovation Challenge and the remaining teams convey been divided into 2 tracks: USD together with San Diego-wide. Of the 8 teams inward the San Diego-wide track, 5 teams hail from UC San Diego. We are proud to part the continued accomplishments of Bystanders to Upstanders, Combatting HIV Transmittance inward Mozambique - Africa, Evocado, People’s Potty Project (3P) together with VivaScope.
In the lastly round, the teams are perfecting their 6-minute pitches on their social excogitation projects. The teams volition acquaint to a alive panel of judges side past times side Tuesday, Apr 28 together with the recipients of seed funding prizes volition live announced at the awards ceremony held on May 1. At the awards ceremony, all contestants volition acquaint a 90-second fast pitch of their projection to the San Diego social excogitation community.
“The Social Innovation Challenge is looking to fund projects amongst social deport on together with a sustainable model,” said Bystanders to Upstanders (B2U) CEO Sneha Jayaprakash.
Jayaprakash founded Bystanders to Upstanders amongst the mission to brand volunteer travel to a greater extent than efficient through personifying, localizing together with gamifying community service. Since Jayaprakash began her company, B2U has pivoted from a non-profit to a for-profit model focusing on encouraging volunteer travel inward corporate settings.
Jayaprakash explained that betwixt each round, the Social Innovation Challenge holds Idea labs, each amongst a unlike agenda to maintain developing their projects together with their pitches.
While she mentioned that some lessons convey overlapped amongst tips together with preparation received from the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center together with the Rady School of Management’s articulation incubator mystartupxx, Jayaprakash too believes that the challenger has been helpful inward working out the finer points of her team’s delineate concern model together with crafting a balanced presentation.
“The actual pitch needs to appeal to broad audience, it needs to brand sense to the social practiced side, the delineate concern together with marketing side…” Jayaprakash explained. “Each sector has unlike things that they desire to see, together with crafting a pitch that speaks to each sector is the challenge.”
Kirk Hutchinson of VivaScope recommends the sense together with says that the challenger is a lead chances to exercise communicating your passion to strangers, a commutation to whatsoever successful humanitarian project. VivaScope is a Global Teams inward Engineering Service squad partnered amongst the pupil organization, Engineering World Health. Their projection seeks to expand the availability of viral charge testing past times reducing costs that forestall millions from receiving the attention they need.
“We’re used to explaining the engineering together with convincing our audience that the scientific discipline behind our see volition work,” said Hutchinson. “For our half dozen infinitesimal pitch, we’ve been told to pass exclusively a infinitesimal on our engineering together with and hence focus on the social deport on together with how it volition travel inward the market.”
Receiving laurels funding is the cherry on top of the learning experience.
“Our destination is to convey multiple prototypes working past times side past times side quarter together with to examination them inward the field,” said Hutchinson. “We desire to mail them to United Mexican States together with Mozambique, come across how they fare together with hopefully distribute them.”
Next Tuesday, the alive pitches volition live opened upwards to the public. To honor out to a greater extent than data on how to attend the lastly circular or RSVP for the awards ceremony, click here.