Tech Awards Projects

KIVA Kiosk

To design and place ATM -style kiosks throughout second life giving SL residents greater awareness of Kiva, and instant in world access to worthy borrowers, while giving borrowers access to an expanded and ever expanding lender base.

KickStart our Economy

Step into the shoes of a KickStart farmer and see how much 'water' you can pump, enough for one stalk of corn? Enough for a family? Enough to feed the whole village?

I See my life, I See my future

Look through lenses of different strengths as you try to carry out everyday tasks.

Freeplay Radio

Making a animated model of a freeplay radio (may be showing some of the internal gears and electronics..) and exposure for the project.

Femocide in Juarez

A deeper look at the murders in Juarez

Walk Softly

This exhibit will highlight the Jaipur Foot, a light weight, low cost and easily fitted prosthetic device by first, allowing visitors to 'experience' the need for this device, second demonstrating its efficacy and third showing them what they can do to help.

We Can Dew!

We Can Dew enables you to experience the ingenuity and effectiveness of a Large Fog Collector and illustrates how this benefits humanity, with both real and hypotethical examples.

Create a Universal Language

Cameras, satellites, and the Internet enable people to document and share stories from around the world, bringing attention to ways of respecting or violating human rights. This exhibit offers a place to explore our ideas about human rights and create stories that express the value of community and the freedom of individuals to have their own voice.

Barefoot Brilliance!

Experience some of the skills and products of Barefoot College graduates and test yourself against their skills.

Hey What's Cooking?

This exhibit demonstrates the benfits that the ONIL Cookstove has brought to Guatamalan families and some of the pitfalls of traditional cooking methods.

Light up the World

This exhibit displays the ingenuity of WLED lighting and provides interactive examples of its' practical application in a number of forms using real life examples of the Foundation's work.

Cool Vaccines

Heat-sensitive labels can monitor the viability of life-saving vaccines during a power outage or for vaccination programs in the field, but we still need innovative technologies for storing and transporting vaccines.

SL KickStart Pump

This project aims to create an interactive exhibit that will leave a lasting impression on visitors.

Solar Sailing: The future of eco-green.

This project is to demonstrate the practicality of solar travel, and how it can be used to make a better future.

Terran Solar Boat

Create an interactive Display, to be used to educate and demonstrate to others the uses of Solar Power and Renewable Energy sources such as Wind, solar, ethalene gases, along with their impact on the enviroment and the available options for sources of energy; we will design a small effecient boat using one of the energy sources above.

The Difrents of a Lifeline Radio and Todays Radio

The idea is to show the difrents of a Lifeline Radio with todays Radio with Emergance, learning, Weather. And to show how resorseful with the Lifeline with todays radio.

The Quest of the Fog

The big idea is to inspire people that FogQuest (innovative fog collectors) is a great technology, and should be used were needed.

The Diference between normal and floresent ligthbulbs

To show the Efficiency diference between Floresent light bulbs and Normal light bulbs.

Take a bath in the fog

This exhibit will demonstrate the fog collection technology and show how it could be put to sensible use in arid countries.

Foggy Water

To show how fog can be turned into drinking water in an arid location

Project Quench

Our goal is to educate the public on the modern inventions that are helping those in impoverished areas recieve fresh, clean drinking water and to encourage further reaserch in this area.

Truth.

How cameras, video, and photo, can make a difference in the media, when placed in the hands of the public.

No More Rotten Tomatoes!

Touch and Feel experience with full illustration of Mohammed Bah Abba success story about The Pot-in-Pot System

Cell Bazaar

Visitors engage in a dynamic and colorful buying and selling game through a large cell-phone inspired interface.