Creating a feasible learning opportunity (curriculum/course/cluster design/workshop) that’ll help undergraduate students learn more about tech-focused product management that’ll eventually help them in their entrepreneurial pursuit.
Starting and running a fashion enterprise that specializes in ready-to-wear, custom-fit, formal apparel for musicians. Providing musicians with styled looks that meet dress codes as well as allow them to perform at their best.
Creating an audio-focused video game that’s purpose is to provide the player with an accessible medium for sound and music creation by bridging the gap between video game and musical instrument.
Collaborating with UR Mobile to develop an interactive app feature that allows users to gain knowledge about sustainability, turn their knowledge into actions, and track their progress in practicing green lifestyles. This could be achieved through importing a knowledge base and adding gamification features to the app.
Designing a productivity app named Fxcus (pronounced “focus”) whose key functionality is to allow users to set immutable daily, weekly, or even hourly, limits on their access to particular apps and websites. Immutable, in this regard, means that once the said limit is set and activated, it cannot be altered or backed out of.
Aaron Weiner and Henry Litsky are reexamining UR’s shuttle system and proposing alternatives that could transform student and faculty life. This will be completed in three phases, allowing the team to properly examine the problems of the current system and create a realistic proposal for the future.
Aaron Weiner and Henry Litsky are reexamining UR’s shuttle system and proposing alternatives that could transform student and faculty life. This will be completed in three phases, allowing the team to properly examine the problems of the current system and create a realistic proposal for the future.
Creating a platform to connect students looking for intern housing to reliable resources in their area to eliminate the stress of finding housing from the internship process.
Exploring technologies and methods for decreasing the carbon footprint required to power the university, and learning about different renewable energy technologies, the market, and the complexity behind the successful integration of renewables.
Create a search engine for anime that allows multiple input queries using specific characteristics, and returns search results based on audiences’ impressions. This platform will provide a clear and direct demonstration of what most anime viewers are seeing and gaining from watching various animes.
Creating a note-taking app with an emphasis on easiness-to-use and accessibility of note-taking on the phone, and efficient organization as well as paper-based feel on the iPad, with the cross-platform data sharing design.
Creating and operating a food truck, powered from termite gas, that sells culinarily-enticing termites to the people of Rochester, and eventually the nation.
Hat Horizon will be a virtual museum of hats and their cultural significance. The platform will integrate key information about hats, such as their origin, related story, culture, 3D images, and more. Users can use it as a tool to learn about hats and relevant cultures and to identify the headwear around their community to raise awareness and understanding of culture through hats.
Establishing a National Audubon Society campus chapter at UR to promote the creation of a bird-friendly campus. This will be accomplished by using the network connections that Ponce made while interning at the National Audubon Society headquarters in New York City.
Collaborating with faculty and students from the music and theatre departments to create annual programs that give students the opportunity to plan and perform in musicals.
Researching the effects of air pollution and finding possible solutions targeting the market of Nepal in order to design a product to reduce air pollution from vehicles using energy conservation. This project will culminate in getting the design into the market of Nepal, and ultimately creating pollution-free, breathable air for people in the society.
Ushop was born to address the lack of security, inconvenience, and ineffectiveness of the secondhand product buying process by creating a secure student-targeted network starting at the University of Rochester. Ushop’s target market is UR students, sophomores, and seniors living on-campus.
The ADHD Toolbox will be a multi-platform application that encompasses mental health resources and tools that are specifically designed with ADHD users in mind. Its purpose is to help the user learn about themselves through the lenses of academically supported methods and of someone who shares similar struggles.
Working with the Sports Information Office to observe how the athletics department currently creates content for social media, writes articles, and the software used in an effort to identify and propose changes where there are opportunities for optimization or professional growth.
Quickly constructing eco-friendly and cost-efficient homes by creating plastic blocks that fit and stack onto each other.
VICT (Virtual Intuitive Campus Tour) is an app on your VR headset and personal electronics which uses a combination of 3D modeling of building exteriors with 360-degree/LiDAR scanned indoor images. Users can freely wander around the campus in their VR headsets or screens, explore the tunnel system, check out departments’ information and programs, and learn more about UR.
Creating a data management system for the mill Chikweze has built in Nigiria. This data management system would include a notification system to inform farmers when their food has been ground at a mill and is ready for collection, a model that can be used to predict how much food will be ground in a given period of time, and a system to help the mill keep track of the profit and loss of the business.
UReferred connects students and alumni for an efficient job referral process. With UReferred, job seekers can easily connect with alumni who are willing to give them referrals, increasing their chances of getting hired. Alumni can also use UReferred to find promising candidates within the community to give referrals or even offer direct hiring. This makes the job referral process more efficient and helps students and alumni alike.
Creating a platform for UR students to connect and share their idle housing items available to each other. In this way, students will be able to create more mutual benefits and save money and space by putting these idle items in the right places whenever they are needed.
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Contact e5 Program Coordinator Mackenzie Zelinger or Heidi Mergenthaler of the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
