By Porter Selfridge What happens when you take the wolf-man of Ann Arbor, Dungeons andDragons, and a bunch of students who love filmmaking? You get Natural One.After writing the script over the summer, putting together an independentteam of artists, and finding the perfect location for our film to be set, BLIhelped us achieve our goal …
This summer, we conducted qualitative interviews with the residents of Seithur to learnmore about the primary needs in the village and tailor our project to their needs. Weasked about daily challenges, access to resources in the village, and the effects of opendefecation on daily life. Our interviews confirmed that the lack of toilets was the …
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The outcomes of our summer research have allowed us to make decisions regarding the design of the product and will allow us to create a physical prototype of the product that is informed by research. We conducted a literature review that included 15 scientific articles found from the University of Michigan library as well as …
The main questions that we sought to answer were: is it easy to understand what is happening in the political landscape? How do we help people engage with politics more? What do consumers need, but are currently lacking to become more civically engaged? These questions drove our summer research, and our conclusions narrowed down the …
What was your project idea before Bootcamp? We’re aiming to create a sustainable makeup brand called Ease Cosmetics. We want to create a brand of multi-use products that simplify the makeup routine and reduce the need to buy more products. We want to create cosmetics that customers feel good about wearing and buying. We will …
The overall purpose of our project was to address the fundamental disconnect between landlords and potential tenants, specifically in the student housing space. We built marketing software that can turn any apartment website –– no matter the quality –– into an all-in-one conversion suite. Instead of marketers trying to guess what their tenants want, we …
IceVax is a sustainable, energy-efficient refrigeration solution for communities with barriers that are limiting their access to proper refrigeration. Our goal is to bridge the gap in health outcomes experienced by these communities. During the Capstone project, we evaluated different options for assembling the most suitable prototype of IceVax, reached out to stakeholders with experience …
Our project idea before boot camp was to create a box that could transport vaccines over long distances and be stored at cool temperatures that vaccines need to be stored in. We had an idea that there were some places we wanted to implement it in, such as Pakistan and Yemen, through connections we had …
Our project idea prior to the Capstone bootcamp included a preventive health education curriculum that was focused on solely diet and nutrition. Project Healthy Schools Global began in 2015, and in 2017 we launched our first pilot run of the program throughout Dhaka, Bangladesh reaching over 200 students. Our team had the advantage of already …
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The vision of Host Your Voice was to enable a nonprofit’s reach to more potential donors, volunteers, and individuals to be impacted by the nonprofit’s cause. When Amulya founded Host Your Voice 5 years ago, his initial vision behind the organization was to help nonprofits reach by teaching them how to apply for a Google …
