Team Atollo / en 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