Silvia Figueira -- News

ACM DEV, December 2015

PARC Forum: Frugal Innovation, September 2015

• Bioe, EE, CSE: AquaSift
• Mobile: Wakabi in Uganda
• Latimer/EE: Cool Stove
• Civil: Fight the Flood in Ghana

NBC Bay Area Proud, July 2015

• Nagasushma Devarapalli
• Pratyusha Joginipally
• Rahul Ramachandra
• Sharadha Ramaswamy
• Sambhavi Raghuraman
• Rachana Deolikar
• Zian Huang
• Swathi Prasad
• Vishvesh Shah
• Prameya Kirtikar
• Pranay Bhandarkar
• Xiao Xiao
• Harshini chandrashekar
• Jaelin McCreary

Frugal Innovation Showcase, May 2015

Congrats to all on amazing projects and posters:

• Weihan Li and Ann Parden
• Francis Cuenca and Amy Truong
• Michael Brew and Bryant Larsen
• Astha Singh, Mason Maeshiro, and Daniel Mendoza
• Aidan Barbari, James Terry, and James Mack
• Danny Beyers, Jasper Tan, and Brandon Young
• Nagasushma Deverapali
• Nagasushma Deverapali, Ajay Panda, Swathi Prasad, Shilpi Singh, Soomal Choudhary
• Nagasushma Deverapali, Arjun Ramesh, Apurva Thomas, Angela Laar, Sowmya Chandrashekarappa, Rachana Deolikar
• Abhishek Birjepatil and Vijay Jatti
• Darshan Shah
• Alex Choulos, Alex Seto, Kelly Wesley, Nathan Kerr
• Sarek Sotelo
• Roshan Ramankutty

3WDroid, April 2015

Hack for the Homeless II, February 2015

Hack for the Homeless 2015 was a tremendous success! 70 students started Saturday morning, 40 students finished Sunday morning, and 18 apps were submitted! Congrats to all the participants! What an awesome crowd!! Special congrats to the winners! 1st: OpenDoor - Nathan Kerr (CSE 18), Alex Seto (EE/CSE 18), Kelly Wesley (CSE 18), and Kunal Dhillon (CS at UCSC 18) 2nd: H4H: Home for the Homeless - Venkata S K Modalavalasa (MS CSE) 3rd: DataTrac - Alex McAfee (CSE 16), Pranav Bheda (CSE 17), Arman Elahi (CSE 17), Malika Mission (CSE 17) Thanks to CTA for an amazing partnership! CTA's Blog Thanks to ACM and ACM-W for an amazing event! Robert Aldrich (CS 16), Vincente Ciancio (CSE 16), Paige Rogalski (CSE 15), Roshan Ramankutty (CSE 16), Adithya Prabhakaran (CSE 17), and Blake Tsuzaki (CSE 17) Thanks to the pitch speakers: Jen Padgett, CTA Chuck Jagoda, CTA Seth Marbin, Google Daniel Lottis, WD Thanks to the judges: Jen Padgett, CTA Michael Weber, IEEE SIGHT Tharun Kumar, Dew Mobility Chuck Jagoda, CTA, DST Cheriece Williams, WD Parth Vasavada, WD Shweta Panditrao, CSE 14, Yahoo! Zuhayr Elahi, MS 14, HP Thanks to our sponsors: Western Digital, IEEE SIGHT, Adobe, RedBull, Frugal Innovation Lab, School of Engineering Special thanks to: Natalie Linnell, Math/CS for all her help and support. Allan Baez, CTA, for helping with the organization and during the event. Alec Go, Google, for stopping by on Saturday to help the students. On the news: KTVU news NY Times Voice of America Yahoo! Finance Campus Technology Business Wire American Entrepreneurship Today Reuters

ACM DEV, December 2014

In December, our group presented a poster at ACM DEV, in San Jose, California:

Thanks to all the students who contributed to the paper and poster:

• Nick Fong and Darshan Shah -- StreetConnect
• Kelsey Dedoshka, Katie Le, Kaitlin Kirasich - Youth StreetConnect
• Apurva Thomas and Jay Sheth -- Salauno
• Guilherme Carvalho and Arjun Ramesh -- Clinicas del Azucar
• Kevin Nguyen and Shweta Panditrao -- HearThat?
• Prashanthan Surendran -- Hearing Aid for Everyone
• Sushma Devarapalli and Isabela Figueira -- poster design

GHTC, October 2014

• Youth StreetConnect -- Helping Homeless Young Women,
  Silvia Figueira, Kelsey Dedoshka, Katie Le, Kaitlin Kirasich, and Deb Levine,
  IEEE GHTC - Global Humanitarian Technical Conference,
  October 2014.

• HearThat? -- Mobile Audiometric Test,
  Silvia Figueira, Kevin Nguyen, and Shweta Panditrao,
  IEEE GHTC - Global Humanitarian Technical Conference,
  October 2014.

• Hack for the Homeless: A Humanitarian Technology Hackathon,
  Natalie Linnell, Silvia Figueira, Neil Chintala, Lauren Falzarano, and Vincente Ciancio,
  IEEE GHTC - Global Humanitarian Technical Conference,
  October 2014.

Frugal Innovation Lab -- Open House, May 2014

Congrats to all on amazing projects and posters:

• Aaraadhya Narra
• Kelsey Dedoshka, Katie Le, Kaitlin Kiracish
• Kevin Nguyen and Shweta Panditrao
• Melissa Bica and Lizzy Donahue
• Daniel Marks and Sean Kinzer
• Anthony Clemetson
• Nicholas Fong
• Aidan Barbari, James Terry, Thomas Martin, Bryant Larsen, Jimmy Mack
• Astha Singh
• Rashmi Nagaraju and Jonathan Ahumada
• Rohit Kalindini, Anusha Kasum, Urja Patel, Jay Sheth
• Prashanthan Surendran
• Nishant Bisen
• Guilherme Carvalho and Tian Zhang
• Vincente Ciancio, Lauren Falzarano, and the Hack for the Homeless winners

Empowering the underserved, one app @ a time... April 2014

• School of Engineering
• CTA
• Flickr

Hack for the Homeless, February 2014

Our first Hackathon was a great success!
Thanks to our ACM and ACM-W chapters for organizing it, particulalry Vincente Ciancio and Lauren Falzarano. You guys rock!!
Thanks to Natalie Linnell, SCU Math/SCU, Elizabeth Sweeny, SCU Frugal Innovation Lab, and Allan Baez, CTA, for helping with logistics.
Thanks to our sponsors! Congratulations to all the participants!! Special congratulations to the winners!!
We plan to do it all over again next year!

More information on these sites:

• ChallengePost
• CTA
• Facebook

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