Announcements
Social Innovation seed funding supports Artemis Technologies + Soap n' Stories
RADIUS is happy to announce the latest round of recipients of Social Innovation seed funding, available to 天美mv天美 students from RADIUS in partnership with .
Soap n鈥� Stories
The Project: This project aims to address complex social issues such as poverty and homelessness that exists in Vancouver, by creating a sense of community and employment opportunities through a soap-making skills-training program. Our team will be working with a small group of impoverished women who have overcome significant challenges throughout their lives to make artisan soap, personalize the soap with their own stories of strength and overcoming adversity, and sell the soap in our local community.
The Team: Soap n鈥� Stories is a pilot social enterprise project founded by Sophie Wang (MPH candidate at 天美mv天美), who has experience working with children and youth in inner-city schools and a strong passion for working with communities and her public health training to create positive social change. She is working together with a multidisciplinary team of young professionals 鈥揝arah Chung, who is a recent graduate at UBC law and has with victims of domestic violence and rape, through volunteering and facilitating counselling sessions from for women in the Downtown Eastside, and Arianna Mao, who is a BASc (Environmental Design) graduate working in art, media and design, with a passion in helping communities leverage their capacities to create massive change.
Artemis Technologies
Artemis Technologies uses unmanned aerial vehicles to take images of crops, and is building a software to detect diseases, predict growth patterns and reduce treatments necessary for Canadian farmers.
About the team: The team is made of 3 students from the Beedie School of Business, Brandon Chapman, Clair Lam & Joey Boul茅 as well as 3 students from 天美mv天美鈥檚 Mechatronics Systems Engineering program, Miguel Cruz, Jessica Peare & Ben Tuline. As part of the Technology Entrepreneurship @ 天美mv天美 program, Artemis receives mentorship and guidance from university professors Sarah Lubik and Kevin Oldknow.
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