Student Entrepreneurs Share Their Innovations

Student Entrepreneurs Share Their Innovations Catherine Gao: My name is Catherine Gao. I’m a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania and the organization that I’m representing is Givology. So, Givology is an education nonprofit founded by Penn students in spring 2008. And what we do is we partner with grassroots NGO’s and developing countries who work with students and schools in need. So basically on Givology, you can go to the Give Now button and then browse student profiles or project profiles so here we can go to Jimmy Cabriza and I’ll click on his profile and I notice that he’s already been given a $135.00 out of the 200 that he’s requested and you can see the allocations of the $200.00 to give what you do is you add money to your account and so I go into my account and then I can donate to Jimmy. Jason Halpern: My name is Jason Halpern. I’m working on the Power Flower, portable solar generator performers. And what does that mean? Well, it’s like your typical solar panel but a different and a couple of key ways. So, the Power Flower is like I said it’s portable. What does that mean? It means that when it’s not used, it gets very small and very easy to move. So, it goes ahead and folds up when not in use. This allows farmers to move it around their field very, very easily and very quickly and to play it exactly what they needed. When it opens up in the daytime, it’s going to start the general electricity by reflecting some of these petals here so these petals are very, very large mirrors. And the mirrors are very small solar cells located up here at the top of the device. This is a technology that is concentrated for text and we’re using that technology to make a solar device that really fits the needs of the farmers. Ben Gulak: Hi, my name is Ben Gulak. I’m here to present two of my projects. One of them is the DTV Shredder which is this really cool new ultra end vehicle and the other is the ‘Uno’ which is this new type of urban commuter. It’s an electric unicycle that actually transforms into a full size motorcycle while it’s moving. So on the left hand side, this is the Uno in unicycle mode and this is the Uno in motorcycle mode. When I hit 12 miles an hour, the middle wheel, this one, rolls forward and the other two wheels slide backward pulling together and lock to form one tire and it appears into a full size strip-bike. The other project is the DTV Shredder which is this new kind of all trained vehicle. Essentially it’s a combination of a motocross bike and ATV and a snow mobile and combines them into a truck vehicle which you can stand on just like a skateboard and that’s the rider you will take on sand, snow, mud, at the side of mountains when it’s literally completely altering all year round. Daniel Ratai: My name is Daniel Ratai and our product is called Leonardo. It’s about to make virtual reality on the environment on a standard home computer and you can imagine that the standard computers, the two dimensional environment, the 2D mouse, the 2D monitor and with Leonardo, we can turn this into full virtual reality environment so we got a 3D mouse, it’s called ‘bird’. And we have 3D glasses and like that we can see the space and immediately interact with this 3D vision into space. Josh Weinstein: My name is Josh Weinstein I’m the founder of GoodCrush, GoodCrush currently runs GoodCrush.com. It’s a flagship website. It’s a social dating site for college students and we also operate RandomDorm.com. RandomDorm.com is essentially chat room for college students. So, GoodCrush started out as the crush finder. You put in your name, you put in your email address and you do the same for up to five crushes right here and you submit them anonymously. And then they go on for the site and they do the same. It doesn’t matter that both people know. And we actually started at Prince and where we went to school. We got 30% of the student body in 24 hours two years in a row. And we thought that we’re onto something and so as you can see we currently have about 28,000 crushes sent at a variety of different schools.