Hult Prize / en Used coffee grounds turned into fuel logs, battery-free heating vests: five 茄子直播 teams compete in Hult Prize regionals this weekend /news/used-coffee-grounds-turned-fuel-logs-battery-free-heating-vests-five-u-t-teams-compete-hult <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Used coffee grounds turned into fuel logs, battery-free heating vests: five 茄子直播 teams compete in Hult Prize regionals this weekend</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-03-01-hult2017_0.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=wdiuaMdH 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2017-03-01-hult2017_0.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=NMVlvhOf 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2017-03-01-hult2017_0.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=FhiDxkuD 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-03-01-hult2017_0.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=wdiuaMdH" alt> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>ullahnor</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2017-03-01T13:02:14-05:00" title="Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 13:02" class="datetime">Wed, 03/01/2017 - 13:02</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">From left to right, winners of 茄子直播's Hult Prize competition include Matthew Frehlich, Lucas Siow, Sam Bennett and Gowtham Ramachandran (photo courtesy of Sam Bennett)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/tyler-irving" hreflang="en">Tyler Irving</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Tyler Irving</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/global-lens" hreflang="en">Global Lens</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/hult-prize" hreflang="en">Hult Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/rotman-school-management" hreflang="en">Rotman School of Management</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/munk-school-global-affairs-public-policy" hreflang="en">Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public Policy</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/u-t-mississauga" hreflang="en">茄子直播 Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/oise" hreflang="en">OISE</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">This year's theme is restoring rights and dignity to the world's 10 million refugees</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>茄子直播 students headed to the next round of the&nbsp;Hult Prize 鈥 considered the world's largest student competition for&nbsp;social good&nbsp;鈥 are&nbsp;hoping to&nbsp;show how&nbsp;a simple mixture of used coffee grounds, wax and sugar can help restore the dignity of refugees around the world.</p> <p>Team Moto&nbsp;鈥&nbsp;named after the Swahili word for fire 鈥&nbsp;is competing this&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;in the Shanghai Regionals of the&nbsp;Hult Prize, an annual $1-million competition that aims to create and launch startup enterprises that address challenges faced by billions of people.&nbsp;The team is this year's winner of the&nbsp;茄子直播 phase of the competition. But, altogether&nbsp;five&nbsp;茄子直播 teams&nbsp;鈥 four&nbsp;applied on their own to the Clinton Global Initiative's 2017&nbsp;Hult Prize challenge&nbsp;鈥&nbsp;are headed to&nbsp;regional competitions around the world.</p> <p>This year鈥檚 social enterprise face-off&nbsp;focuses on restoring the rights and dignity of people and societies forced into motion due to social injustices, politics, economic pressures, climate change and war.&nbsp;Winners of the regionals&nbsp;then move into an incubator where they'll prep for&nbsp;finals in September.</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__3625 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/Brick%202_0.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 442px;" typeof="foaf:Image"><br> <em>Team Moto鈥檚 fuel log is made from used coffee grounds held together with wax and sugar&nbsp;(photo by&nbsp;Team Moto)</em></p> <p>For their design,&nbsp;members of Team Moto sought to overcome a massive daily challenge faced by residents of African refugee camps: gathering firewood.</p> <p>鈥淎 lot of the time, it鈥檚 women and children that are going to harvest firewood,鈥 says&nbsp;<strong>Matthew Frehlich</strong>, a master's student at&nbsp;茄子直播's Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering, who is a part of&nbsp;Team Moto. 鈥淏ecause of deforestation, they have to trek up to 15 kilometres to get this firewood. Once they are outside of the camps, they are vulnerable to violence.鈥</p> <p>Frehlich and his team members&nbsp;鈥 the&nbsp;Rotman School of Management's MBA candidates&nbsp;<strong>Sam Bennett</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Gowtham Ramachandran</strong>,<strong>&nbsp;Lucas Siow&nbsp;</strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Lucy Yang</strong>&nbsp;鈥&nbsp;want to eliminate the need for this dangerous trip. Their solution is a fuel log that could be manufactured from low-cost waste materials repurposed from coffee-drinking countries.</p> <p>鈥淲e came across the original recipe for a coffee-based fuel log on Instagram,鈥 says Frehlich 鈥淚t was meant to be a decorative holiday log, but we realized it had potential for our purposes because it used a product that would otherwise be discarded as waste, which makes it inexpensive to produce.鈥</p> <p>Last fall the team started scavenging coffee grounds from local retailers, baking fuel logs in a loaf pan and testing them in a backyard barbecue.&nbsp;</p> <p>Their product can burn for up to 90 minutes, providing enough heat to cook standard food rations. They have now secured partnerships with local coffee producers to supply raw materials for their pilot project.&nbsp;</p> <p>After&nbsp;beating more than 20 other teams at 茄子直播's&nbsp;Hult&nbsp;competition Team Moto&nbsp;has been focused on improving the&nbsp;product and pitch for the regional competition in Shanghai.</p> <p>鈥淲e feel confident knowing that we've done everything we can to prepare ourselves and our business idea for this big next step,鈥&nbsp;says Frehlich.&nbsp;鈥淲e've conducted a focus group with former residents of African refugee camps to get feedback on the product, and we鈥檝e sent a sample to representatives of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees for further field testing in Uganda. We also have a letter of intent with Starbucks Canada to supply us with coffee grounds for our pilot project. We鈥檙e hopeful that all this will give us the edge we need to win.鈥</p> <p>Two 茄子直播 teams are headed&nbsp;to regionals in Boston this weekend. The&nbsp;Munk School of Global Affairs'&nbsp;<strong>Bushra Ebadi</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Tessa MacNeil</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Mustafa Sayedi</strong>&nbsp;make up one team. The second 茄子直播 team from Rotman's evening MBA program has&nbsp;developed a battery-free heated vest for refugees facing prolonged exposure to low temperatures. The team includes&nbsp;<strong>Jing (Amanda) Wang</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Lulu Feng</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Nash Xu&nbsp;</strong>and<strong>&nbsp;Heywood Chu</strong>.</p> <p>The team headed to San Francisco regionals includes&nbsp;<strong>Grace Mabika</strong>&nbsp;from&nbsp;the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,&nbsp;<strong>Omowonuola "Wonu" Adeshina&nbsp;</strong>from&nbsp;University of Toronto Mississauga and&nbsp;<strong>Kai "Candice" Yun</strong>, who justed graduated from 茄子直播.<br> &nbsp;<br> A fifth team&nbsp;heading&nbsp;to the regionals in&nbsp;London includes&nbsp;<strong>Zaid Atto</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Andrei Dranka</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Deeptanshu (Deep) Prasad</strong>&nbsp;鈥 all from&nbsp;the&nbsp;Faculty of Applied Science &amp;&nbsp;Engineering and&nbsp;<strong>Rosemary Yachouh</strong>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:02:14 +0000 ullahnor 105257 at 茄子直播 team heads to Hult Prize regionals with plan for firewood alternative in refugee camps /news/u-t-team-heads-hult-prize-regionals-plan-firewood-alternative-refugee-camps <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">茄子直播 team heads to Hult Prize regionals with plan for firewood alternative in refugee camps</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/refugee%20camp.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=KufOEBil 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/refugee%20camp.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=anfihUGl 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/refugee%20camp.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=fdUTgj6c 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/refugee%20camp.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=KufOEBil" alt="Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-12-19T10:59:24-05:00" title="Monday, December 19, 2016 - 10:59" class="datetime">Mon, 12/19/2016 - 10:59</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan (World Bank Photo Collection via Flickr)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/ken-mcguffin" hreflang="en">Ken McGuffin</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Ken McGuffin</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/global-lens" hreflang="en">Global Lens</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/current-students" hreflang="en">Current Students</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/hult-prize" hreflang="en">Hult Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/rotman-school-management" hreflang="en">Rotman School of Management</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/global" hreflang="en">Global</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/international" hreflang="en">International</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/team-atollo" hreflang="en">Team Atollo</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>They won with a substitute for firewood made from recycled coffee grounds.&nbsp;</p> <p>Teams of students with an interest in social entrepreneurship gathered at the University of Toronto鈥檚 Rotman School of Management last week to participate in the quarterfinal qualifying round for the Hult Prize.&nbsp;</p> <p>The prize is a startup accelerator for social entrepreneurship that brings together the brightest college and university students from around the globe to solve the world鈥檚 most pressing issues.&nbsp;</p> <h3><a href="/news/u-t-teams-tackle-refugee-crisis-2017-hult-prize">Read more about the Hult Prize at 茄子直播</a></h3> <p>Student teams drawn from a wide range of faculties at 茄子直播 tackled the competition鈥檚 challenge of 鈥淩efugees - Reawakening Human Potential and Restoring the Dignity of 10M People by 2022鈥. The challenge focused on restoring the rights and dignity of people and societies affected by&nbsp;social injustices, politics, economic pressures, climate change and war.</p> <p>The winner of the 茄子直播 competition was Team Journey. Composed of three Rotman MBA students and a 茄子直播 Master of Engineering student, Team Journey developed a substitute for firewood made from recycled coffee grounds which could be used to alleviate the fuel and firewood shortage in many refugee camps in Africa.</p> <p>Engineering's <strong>Matthew Frehlich</strong> and Rotman's <strong>Lucas Siow</strong>, <strong>Sam Bennett</strong>, and <strong>Gowtham Ramachandran</strong> will advance to one of the Hult Prize regional finals to be held in March. &nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淭he calibre of ideas coming out of this year鈥檚 competition was exceptional," said <strong>Tina-Marie&nbsp;Assi</strong>, 茄子直播's Hult Prize Campus Director. "The panel of judges contributed invaluable insights in both rounds of pitches.鈥&nbsp;</p> <p>She said that speakers&nbsp;<strong>Rod Lohin</strong>, executive director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship, and <strong>Nouman Ashraf</strong>, an assistant professor in the teaching stream at Rotman, 鈥減rovided motivation and much food for thought for anyone looking to make their mark with a career in innovation and sustainability.鈥&nbsp;</p> <p>Judges for the qualifying round included <strong>Aisha Bukhari</strong>, a Rotman MBA graduate with Attolo SE Inc.&nbsp;<a href="/news/u-t-grads-finals-hult-prize-talking-stickers-boost-literacy-impoverished-children">who reached the final round of the Hult Prize in 2015</a>,&nbsp;Assaf Weisz, co-founder and&nbsp;managing director of Purpose Capital,&nbsp;Astrum Nanji, founder and managing director at Lux Equity,&nbsp;Hamoon Ekhtiari, director of strategy and innovation for the executive vice-president at TELUS,&nbsp;Jacky Magee, director of developer audience experience for Microsoft Canada,&nbsp;<strong>Jamal Khayyat</strong>, a Rotman MBA graduate who was the Hult Prize campus director at 茄子直播 in 2015-2016,&nbsp;Ted Graham, head of open innovation at General Motors&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Zahra Ebrahim</strong>, a co-leader of Doblin鈥檚 Canada practice.&nbsp;</p> <h3><a href="http://www.hultprize.org">Learn more about the Hult Prize</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:59:24 +0000 lanthierj 102820 at