NH SVIC Winners Center for Social Innovation & Enterprise

The Center for Social Innovation & Enterprise is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 NH Social Venture Innovation Challenge (SVIC). Paul student Elizabeth O'Malley ’19, Economics and International Affairs, won second place in the Student Track with her entry, True Vote, a mobile and web application that would enable voter participation on a daily basis as well as encourage all politician accountability. Alumna Eileen Liponis ’95G, Master of Business Administration won second place in the Community Track with her team's idea to incorporate aquaculture to support NH's food insecure. Matthew Perry ’19, Business Administration, and Hans Massie ’19, Business Administration, were both Student Track finalists (top 8). A full list of winners in each track is below and all of the 2018 finalists videos can be viewed here.

Student Track

First Prize: LUX: Safer Dating, a dating app that integrates wearable technology and location tracking to mitigate dating sexual violence. Team members included University of New Hampshire students, Christin Badylak-Reals, Mechanical Engineering, 2019, Sean McLoud, Mechanical Engineering, 2019, Julie Berberian, Mechanical Engineering, 2019 and Mark Torpey, Mechanical Engineering, 2019

Second Prize: True Vote, a mobile and web application that would enable voter participation on a daily basis as well as encourage all politician accountability was proposed by UNH student, Elizabeth O'Malley, Economics and International Affairs, 2019

Third Prize (tie): Janas Analytics, software that would be one of the first proactive solutions to predicting global migrant crises was proposed by University of New Hampshire student Sarah Jarrar, Anthropology, 2021. The second team was The Potential for Leaf Waste at Colby-Sawyer College, who proposed an on-campus leaf and food waste composting system at Colby-Sawyer College. Team members included Colby-Sawyer College students Rebecca Budrock, Environmental Science, 2020, Anna Hubbard, Environmental Science, 2020, Cameron Lynch, Environmental Science, 2020, Colby Reardon, Environmental Science, 2019 and Timothy Gablosky, Environmental Science, 2020.

Community Track

First Prize: TheHive, an independent quick-deploy network that any wifi enabled device can access, giving users a means of communications with emergency crews and family was proposed by University of New Hampshire alumnus Devon Crawford '18 of Milford, NH and Jack Nichols of Milford, NH.

Second Prize: UNH Fish Feed NH, utilizes aquaculture to support NH's food insecure. Team members included UNH alumna Eileen Liponis '95G and Jayson McCarter, Paul Morrison, Moriar Webster and Maddy Webster, all of Manchester, NH.

Third Prize: Growing Hope, a U.S.-based organization that supplies portable milk crate garden boxes to South Sudanese refugees in the Bidi Bidi camp was proposed by Emanne Khan of Concord, NH, Abigail Wilding of Bedford, NH and Sarah Mullins of Contoocook, NH.

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