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Automated Cellular Beach Safety...

Safety flags are used to indicate the current status of the water on that particular coast. The flag indicators alert beach-goers on what water conditions to expect. The flags are changed manually by personnel. Our solution is to use data from the National Weather Service and automatically change...

$3,420 (funded)
$5,000 (goal)
Global Leadership in Peru Pilot

Nic Walli and Lexi Steve will be going to Lima, Peru to volunteer and scout out projects for the future. Potential projects would be teaching design, learning from others, incorporating teamwork activities, being empowered, and empowering others to make a change.

$100 (funded)
$400 (goal)
STEM and Health in Communities...

The projects the team will be pursuing heavily this summer will focus on STEM Education, Women's Health, and collaborating with a community center on their needs. Outside of these projects, the team also hopes to scout out new opportunities for future cohorts and establish connections with student...

$295 (funded)
$800 (goal)
Pavlis Honors College Team...

This summer we will be traveling to Tanzania for five weeks to complete meaningful projects that will have a positive effect on the Tanzania community. Our projects include a hand washing station, STEM activities for the students, and work with the teachers on methods of education that are more...

$0 (funded)
$1,500 (goal)
Autonomous Mining Rover for Mining...

MINE is a student-led program that is designed to teach the engineering process for future challenges in the mining industry. Space mining is an upcoming industry within engineering fields that in the next 20 years will become a multi-trillion dollar industry. In the program, we are building an...

$350 (funded)
$2,500 (goal)
Audio to Visual Translator

1 in every 1000 people is deaf below 18 years of age. To put in perspective, 300 thousand people just in US are deaf below voting age. Closed captioning in various form is the current solution only alleviating the problem. The key to solving this problem completely is by visual illustration. Vakya...

$615 (funded)
$5,000 (goal)
AutoHome -- Smart Solution for...

The main problem with current home automation solutions is that they are platform-dependent and they cannot integrate with traditional devices. Our main mission is to design a system that could integrate with smart and traditional devices.

$10 (funded)
$5,000 (goal)
Virtual Role-Playing Environment...

In the digital age many find it difficult to play role-playing tabletop games at a physical table. Instead they use environments such as Roll20 or they meet using Discord or Skype. These services can still be lacking and usually make it difficult to visualize battles or scenery. This project would...

$10 (funded)
$1,500 (goal)
Hypothermia Preventing Life...

Here in the Keweenaw, we know winter all too well. But, we don't allow winter weather to define our lives, we instead find ways to overcome cold temperatures and conquer massive amounts of snowfall.

$60 (funded)
$1,500 (goal)
Funding for Calvin Research...

Melvin Calvin was a well-known Michigan Tech alumnus and a Nobel laureate in Chemistry for his discovery of Calvin Cycle in photosynthesis. This proposal is to follow his scientific spirit by establishing a Calvin Research Program to support our students with a focus on photosynthetic...

$110 (funded)
$10,000 (goal)

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