A happy Spring Break to all the students out there! We hope you’re able to spend those 2 weeks somewhere warm and sunny. Meanwhile, those of us working on the contest are still in New Haven, holding down the fort.
We are so proud to announce the finalists of the IDEA Contest. Each of the categories below has a winner, who will be announced at the IDEA Reception on April 22nd (details to follow soon). Check out our prizes page to see what the category winners will receive! Congratulations to all the finalists.
Art Category Finalists
Mary Reid Kelley – The Queen’s English [link]
Noa Kaplan-Sears, James Pollack – Digital Diving
Ely Kim – Seen [link]
Business & Entrepreneurship Category Finalists
Yingqi Gu – Qashe [link]
Christopher Bartley – The Cubiverse [link]
Simon Tao (group)- Auto Keep-In-Touch [link]
Arun Gupta (group) – Wakesmart
Elliot James Rapp – LiKiRi Learning Services [link]
Sustainability Category Finalists
MJ Truong – Eco Crafts: Bottlecap Earrings [link]
Haley Gilbert - East Rock Park: Inside & Out [link]
Robert Casey, Rich Littlehale – TwigTek / YouRenew.com [link]
General Category Finalists
Julian Kantor – Groov [link]
Sanjay Basu – Nyayahealth Wiki (Open source public health) – [link]
Leon Noel – List Full Of Hope [link]
Jianye Lu – Yale Campus Criminal Events on Google Map [link]
Unfortunately, there were no finalists in the Education Category due to lack of entries in that category. Maybe next year?
Judges from all categories will be meeting next week to determine the overall 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners. (Check out our prizes page to see what 1st- 3rd prize winners will win- besides prestige, of course!)
Congratulations again to our finalists!
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April 14, 2009 at 5:07 pm
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Wow! These submissions look pretty awesome!
I really like the art submissions! And it seems like everyone put a lot of effort/time in.
What exactly is The Cubiverse?
Also, hasn’t yourenew already been done? http://www.gazelle.com/
How is it different?
Thanks
April 14, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Norma
I don’t think my other comment went through…
I was looking through the winners and wanted to know how is yourenew.com any different from http://www.gazelle.com/ or nextworth.com?
Also, I was trying to find out what the cubiverse.com was because I didn’t see anything when I went to the site.
April 17, 2009 at 4:28 pm
yaleodc
That’s a good question! They seem similar- I was playing around with Gazelle and YouRenew, it seemed like YouRenew was offering a little better prices and even gives to renewable energy and planting trees. I mean, the main difference I saw was that they donate to green charities at the end of the process. Def. something to compare/ contrast when looking for ways to recycle your electronics.