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Ready Bag, Erica Stewart (Interior Design), Anna Petronio (Interior Design), Chelsey Glidden (Interior Design), William Guo (Business), Anna Slomowitz (Occupational Therapy)

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The Ready Bag is for people in the United States who have been displaced due to natural disasters. The bags contain all of the necessary products that people need for survival and disaster relief and it comes in one convenient bag. There are four options for different regions in the US that target specific natural disasters and provide people with a sense of security and preparedness.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in …

S.A.V.E.-Safety And Vitals Emitter, Brandon Pun (Architecture), Fred Ramirez (Architecture)

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A series of devices created to assist in the location of those who have been affected by natural disasters. The devices utilize ultrasonic and infared signals to create a proximity and heat signature for those affected.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of finding …

It Takes A Village, Valerie Smith (Interior Design), Allison Mccabe (Interior Design), Kelly Mcmullen (Interior Design), Evatt Holmström (Industrial Design), Coral Pistilli (Occupational Therapy)

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Through collaboration and teamwork, we tried to fulfill the needs of refugees coming into the country. We created a temporary society (urban plan) through the use of IKEA shelters in order to better the everyday lives of refugees who are in limbo waiting for approval in the country they landed. We hope the plan will spark a sense of community, contribution, and improve the mental health of the society residing there.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how …

Unite App: Connecting Refugees And Locals, Aubrey Coughlin (Interior Design), Anna Loimusalo (Information And Service Management), Anthony Difranco (Industrial Design), Bennett Purdy (Textile), Mismilad Alhashim (Pre-Med), Winston Folkes (Occupational Therapy)

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Unite is a social media platform which connects refugees with local organizations and anyone who wants to lend a hand, when they arrive in a new country. To make our concept more specific, we focused on the city of Berlin, the organizations which exist there and the people who are migrating there.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee …

Life, Kendall Hancock (Fashion Design), Damien Vela, Fancy Castillo, Monica Barrera (Interior Design), Terry Rim

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This project is about offering a solution to nationally displaced populations. Our group has created a system that will not only provide people with housing but a piece of mind.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of finding safety and a better tomorrow. The …

Solar Stove, Julia Strange (Interior Design), Alaina Mcihenney (Physicians Assistant), Zachary Quain (Industrial Design), Adam Beauchner (Industrial Design), Irene Ghattas (Occupational Therapy)

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PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD WINNER!

We designed a solar powered hot plate that also functions as a light source. This allows refugees to cook food without burning wood or using toxic fuels and provides a portable light source.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of …

Hope Box, Ted Thresh (Industrial Design), Erica Lomando, Monica Tabet, Delara Kiani (Industrial Design), Iiro Nurmi

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The Hope Box is a purse sized container with the main purpose of giving people hope that not all is lost. This container locks and can hold your personal valuables safely from theft or water or abrasion damage.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope …

Nah-Atlas, Samantha Schwartz (Interior Design), David Kahn (Industrial Design), Alana Thirsk (Industrial Design), Erick Iacono (Occupational Therapy)

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Current products that attempt to help crisis victims fail to address the most important problem at hand. Citizens feel like there is nothing they can do for people in other countries.

NAHAtlas strengthens the connection between the needs of refugees and the abilities of volunteers during crisis by providing a website that easily answers the main question people are asking.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 …

Refugee.Jobs, Laura Dunne (Pa Studies), Jonathan Looi (Computer Science), Jose Tomas Marchant (Industrial Design), Devin Morrison (Industrial Design)

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Refugee.jobs connects prospective refugee workers with both American employers and English language education resources. Employers who participate in Refugee.jobs are educated about the benefits of hiring refugees and are provided with answers to their concerns by Refugee.jobs liasons. Key players in the success of Refugee.jobs are local refugee resettlement agencies and cultural communities.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to …

Language Learning Application, Sarah Plonski (Landscape Architecture), Mohit Jain (Construction Management), Amar Chinni (Pre-Med), Venla Pirhonen, Victoria Silva (Advertising), Victoria Martinez (Marketing Engineering)

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An application that facilitates immersive language learning by connecting refugees to one another as language learning partners and to native-speaking tutors.

Our group worked to overcome language barriers of our own to complete this project. This work represents a major success in terms of collaborating across disciplines as well as cultures and languages.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to …

Intgrt, John Cecil (Industrial Design), Veronica Reguero Cadilla (Industrial Design), Keaghan Caldwell (Sustainability Design), Emmalee Vansciver (Interior Design)

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We are a non-profit organization with the goal to resettle refugees into a small-scale community with opportunities of education, employment, and housing. With the focus on cities between a 5,000 to 60,000 population, refugees have the chance to utilize their skill sets to improve and evolve a current community without being strongly labeled as a “refugee.”

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world …

The Children's Community Center, Noelle Howard (Economics), Silvia Martin Aldana (Graphic Design Certificate), Cristina Pareja (Disaster And Medicine And Management), Albaraa Jebreel (Disaster And Medicine And Management)

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We are the Children’s Community Center, a NGO thats wants to provide an emergency response to the new surge of Rohingya refugee children. We want to relieve the daily mental traumas of the refugee camps through the collaborative interaction of the different children within the camps. This center will also give parents the space to focus on their own healing without the preoccupation of childcare.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the …

Combating The Problem Of Smuggling Via Legal Refugee Transport Agencies, Mitchell Maurer (Engineering), Ala Saleh, Alex Marino, Adam Hoover, Imani Pajibo, Gabriel De Toro Cruzat

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Our final project is the idea of an organization that works to legally transport refugees into the EU where they can safely become members of the local economy. Legal and social loopholes prevent refugees from entering easily, while refugees are actually seen to aid in temporary working economies.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 …

Refyougee, Joshua Ferguson (Industrial Design), Valmar Wilson, Nicholas Austin, Kaitlin Johnson (Interior Design), Alvari Poikola, Ignacio, Sebastian Eduardo Guajardo

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We created a temporary replica of a refugee camp, with the intent of creating empathy for refugees among the citizens of western countries.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of finding safety and a better tomorrow. The impact of war, political, racial and religious …

Half Full: A Personal Water Collection System, Matthew Cuccurese (Industrial Design), Andres Valbuena, Pooja Joshi (Occupational Therapy), Sophia Warne Rowe (Interior Design), Samantha Ringer (Interior Design)

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Our project focuses on the issue of water within refugee camps. We have proposed a system that can allow for individuals to be able to have their own source of drinking water with a device that can condensate water from the air, even in an aired region. This would allow them to use less water from the community's supply overall, and allow more water to be able to be rationed for uses like washing and cleaning than is currently rationed per person.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our …

Portable Privacy, Larken Mccarthy (Interior Design), Breah Banks (Landscape Architecture)

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Creating a temporary home for displaced people in times of crisis by maximizing vertical space within an air pitch housing structure.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of finding safety and a better tomorrow. The impact of war, political, racial and religious conflict, and …

Category 5, Michael A. Gregori (Landscape Architecture), Kelly Dutertre (Accounting), Catalina Arce Elton (Marketing), Griffin Voight (Landscape Architecture)

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Follow Elizabeth and her family through this family oriented video series which highlights topics such as preparing for a hurricane, how to help those affected by a storm and raises awareness for mental health after a natural disaster.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope …

Space Data Industries, Abram Gibson (Pre-Med), Bruno Jacobsen, Axel Juslin, Philip Smith (Biology)

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Winner of the most entrepreneurial award for its concept of helping government institutions predict, understand and prepare for refugee migration flows through data insights.

A poster that explains a hypothetical company that helps proactively assist governments and refugees during the migration process. The company is based off of data from the groundbreaking nano-satellites being produced at Aalto University.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around …

Refugee Connects, Chintha Snow Vongsakulvong (Interior Design), John Murphy, Maria Latorre, Alejandra Hernandez

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Refuge Connects

An opportunity for Refugees Syrian refugees are in a vulnerable state while in their camps, mentally, physically, and economically. They miss their homes, jobs, and their old community. While waiting to hear about their asylum status, they want to have a sense of normality. Refugees have limited access to job opportunities, which delays productivity for families. When trying to strive for normality in their current state, having a steady source of income will stabilize their lives.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to …

The Trade Exchange, Emily Monath (Industrial Design), Caroline Whittemore (Occupational Therapy), Wa’Ed Ibrahim (International Design Business Management), Michael Taffe (Finance), Bridget Sax (Interior Design)

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The Trade Exchange program changes the meaning of "refugee" from burden to asset. This job placement organization reduces depression and other mental health factors by capitalizing on refugees skills by placing them in countries with labor shortages.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of …

Bookbox, Suraksha Chandrasekhar (Dmm), Anna Marinina (Computer Science), Gabrielle Schwartz (Mba, Marketing/Business Analytics), Erica Lomando (Interior Design), Sarah Von Lange (Health Sciences)

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Bookbox is an app that unites the world through books. With a motto of "Donate a book, start a new chapter" Bookbox aims to facilitate the flow of donated books to refugees in Syrian refugee camps, with a goal of promoting education, self-learning and the will to build a future.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. …

Amicus: Communication Across Languages, Brian Cipperly (Industrial Design), Rosario Herrera (Graphic Design), Mike Savarie (Sustainable Design)

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MOST INNOVATIVE SOLUTION AWARD

Our project is designed to serve as a means for speakers of different languages to communicate using pictorial icons, particularly to serve basic needs such as food and water. At a refugee camp or other first point of contact, a volunteer or aid worker can be wearing a t-shirt, giving away blankets, or using flash cards with the symbols printed on them and the refugee can communicate their needs.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, …

Mobile Health One Kiosk, Nathoue Noel (Public Administration), Giana Castelli (Interior Design), Nazanin Salehima (Interior Design), Queen Mgbechinyere (Nursing), Yasir Almukhifi (Disaster Management And Medicine), Salwa Rasheed (Textile Design)

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The goal of this machine is to decrease the wait time to see a physician or doctor when a refugee goes to a clinic. The machine will perform the first tests that a nurse would have to do before the patient meet the doctor. The machine allows this process to be quicker by doing tests, set up appointments for refugees to see a doctor,give the estimated wait time at clinics and also to direct people to the right section of the clinic once they get there.

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The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the …