ISHOW alum keep changing the world!
From a speech generation device that helps nonverbal people worldwide to a low-cost smart chicken brooder that helps farmers, these ISHOW alum are changing the world with their innovations.
Godfrey Nazareth, an entrepreneur and robotics engineer for CHOP is non-verbal and has lived with ALS for 10 years. Nazareth, who is also a Project Vive partner, recently announced the launch of Project Vive’s seed funding round that will bring Voz Box to market, giving the power of speech to millions of people in the world without a voice. To view the announcement, click here.
McCulloch has big plans to expand with Project Vive and the Voz Box. Project Vive hopes to find that help in the form of Angel Investors, Social Impact Investors, VCs, Foundations, Donors, and other funding opportunities.
To learn more about Project Vive’s vision, Altium (a Project Vive sponsor) has created this video where you can hear directly from some of their users, including 16-year old Aaron.
Across the world UjuziKilimo, one of ISHOW’s earliest alumni, won the Google Impact Challenge in Africa. The soil sensors and BigData analytics their technology utilizes, provides smallholder farmers with critical information about fertilizers, seeds, weather, crop management, and markets.
Until UjuziKilimo came along, analyzing this data would take two weeks, but with their technology, farmers can get this valuable information in under five minutes. Brian Bosire, UjuziKilimo’s co-founder and CEO was also the winner of TechStars Africa and he continues to be an innovator in modernizing agricultural technology in Africa.
ISHOW is pleased to share that three of our teams, Majik Water, Sign-IO, and Smart Brooder, were shortlisted for the Africa Prize by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
In this innovation contest, Sub-Saharan engineers apply their skillset and expertise to special challenges that will improve quality of life in local areas for a chance to present at an event where a winner is selected to receive £25,000 along with three runners-up, who will each take home £10,000.
Beth Koigi of Majik Water, Roy Allela of Sign-IO, and George Chege of Smart Brooder will each receive eight months of mentoring and training, as well as crucial commercialization support before presenting for their chance to win the Africa Prize.
ISHOW 2019 India finalist, Tinkerbell Labs, launched its product, “Annie”, internationally at the Vision Impairment Employee Workforce in Biringham, UK. They worked tirelessly in 2018 to improve Annie’s software and hardware-based user feedback. As a result, Annie was identified as one of the best tools of its practice in teaching Braille by the Sensory Support Services in Cwmbran, Wales.
Later in the year, Tinkerbell Labs launched India’s first Braille Smart Class. The results have been so positive the innovation was nominated by the Deputy Commissioner for the Prime Minister’s Aspirational Districts Innovation Prize.
If you would like to be a part of our hardware and engineering community, join us at your nearest ISHOW this year.
For more inspiration, see what some of our past winners have done here.
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