Browse Stories
Browse the stories submitted to the Grand Challenge Stories award program.
Grand Challenge Stories
- A Nutritious, Sustainable Food Source for Everyone
- Harvesting Energy by Kicking a Soccer Ball
- Personalized Learning For Today's Classroom
- Cebadilla Mural Project in Nicaragua
- Electronic Medical Records to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Nigeria
- Environmental Sustainability on the Farm
- CollaboRhythm: Health and Wellness Teamwork Any Time, Anywhere
- Student Builds a Nuclear Fusion Reactor in his Garage
- Using Waste to Fuel Landfill Community Development
- Identity Theft Vulnerability using RFID Readers
- What is your water bottle?
- No One Can Beat The Wheat
- Sourcemap; Sharing the Story Behind Products
- Big Belly, a Solar Trash Compactor
- Boston Wood Piling Foundations Threatened by Rot
- All-Terrain Wheelchair Improves Mobility
- Investing in Nations by Investing in Individuals
- Shoes that Help Prevent Falls
- Transporter for Rural Dwellers to Carry Water to Their Homes
- Wheelchair Brings Mobility to the Third World
- Rover Makes Students Mobile
- Implementation of Single Stream Recycling
- Solar Power Trash Compactor
- 1D Folding Chain System to Automate Construction Processes
- Motorists Not Well educated About Wildlife Crossings and Corridor Space
- Food Pantry Goes Digital
- The Copenhagen Wheel: Sustainable Urban Mobility
- Brace Yourself for Change Campaign
- FIRST LEGO Team Proposes to Make Sustainable Fuel
- UC San Diego Students Focus on Renewable Energy
- Developing Curriculum for Schools in Developing Countries
- Silencing the Brain with Light
- Video Game Supples Mathematics Material in Classrooms Worldwide
- Solar Hot Water Heater for Underdeveloped Countries
- Sanitation, Electricity and Fertilizers in Developing Nations
- Using the Space Between Cola Bottles to Distribute Drugs in Developing Countries
- Improving Sanitation Wastewater Collection System
- It's Not a Toy the Story of the Pavers
- Optimization of a Nuclear Reactor
- Establishing Knights of Columbus Council on College Campus
- Help elderly - it's you in xx years
- A Filter Full of Algae Gets Rid of CO2
- Disposable Medical Robot
- Concrete Reduces CO2 Emissions and is Twice as Strong
- Structural Health and Degradation Indices for Bridges
- Community Water Solutions: Sustainable clean water businesses provide safe drinking water access to rural Ghana
- As a doctoral student at MIT, Danielle bridges aerospace engineering and international development to enhance the benefits countries gain fr
- Steerable Needle for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Large Tumors
- Enabling scalable 'smokeless cooking stoves'
- A Gonzaga Engineering Design Team describes several alternative energy solutions for application in rural Kenya.
- Creating social impact using Design.
- unGradSchool - a place for professional engineers to share their knowledge and collaborate on solutions for our complex environment issues
- Developing a novel device to address mother to child HIV transmission through breastfeeding
- The Drop Point finally gives pride and independence to those with limited dexterity.
- Preparing the next generation to address the global challenges of the 21st century.
- Aquafinito is a documentary that looks at the reasons underlying the increased use of bottled water and the environmental and social problem
- Sierre Leone native now US citizen uses education to light up his homeland.
- Bringing Solar Power to Leicester, MA
- Sierra Leone Native now U.S. citizen uses his Education to Light up his Homeland
- Toward a sustainable world: real things, real lives - making an impact
- Eco-Economy Redevelopment of Monwabisi Park, Cape Town
- The Transportation of Information and Medicine During Medical Emergencies
- Harnessing the Himalayan Sun: Delivering solar energy by incubating innovation
- Anza sells low-cost, income-generating products made from recycled materials to African farmers. Economic empowerment for the bottom billio
- UC San Diego undergraduates design, build, and deploy network of twelve microclimate stations to enhance sustainable operations.
- Sustainability, Engineering and Nitrogen: The Story of Gordon K. Bril and His Son Jeremy
- Engineers Without Borders Chapter Shows 10,000 Students How Engineers Can Solve the Global Water Crisis in the 2010 JETS TEAMS Competition
- Connecting Caring Communities: FIRST LEGO team helps communities address climate, security and health challenges by creating new on-line soc
- Leila Knowles Sustainable Green Leader
- Brahmam Automated screeners - A Novel Framework to screen Identify Diagnose and Streamline children with Autism in Developing Nations.
- Rebecca Neumann pinpoints the cause of arsenic contamination in Bangladesh
- Mindy Weimer created the YE Water Program to work with disadvantaged Indonesian communities to improve water & sanitation conditions thr
- Inspiring the Next Generation of Problem Solvers through Hands-on Engineering Outreach
- Seed: Designing an experience in sustainability education
- Students at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth devised an inexpensive drinking water arsenic removal system for rural Nepal
- Dirty Water Made Potable, Clean Water Made Portable
- U-M Students Look to Create Social Change Through Engineering
- Final Link in the Chain: Invention of an Innovative Automated Histology Device, Toward Rapid Fully-Automated Tissue Histology for Medicine a
- Team MangoBunnies: Three technical women who set out to make the world a better place.
- Sustainability, Energy Crisis and Peace
- MIT Vehicle Design Summit
- Integrating traditional water management with simple technologies in rural East Africa
- Cory Levy displays forges a new culture of collaboration via networking.
- Beach Erosion: FIRST LEGO League team's innovative idea in continuously self-replenish the beaches using renewable wave energy
- Think Inside the Box
- Targeting health, piping water, delivering hope: UIUC students using a fundamental interaction of nature - gravity - to provide
- A Better Glucometer for the Developing World
- A framework to assess the proliferation resistance of nuclear energy systems that is going to help evaluating their security level by using
- A group of MIT students is developing a prototype lunar and planetary hopper to advance the exploration of the solar system.
- Students grew EWB-MIT from a small group to an active organization of 40 working on sustainable water solutions for Ddegeya, Uganda
- Buckeye Bullet - The Fastest and Most Advanced Electric Vehicles in the World!
- A voice-commandable wheelchair: harnessing advances in robotics and artificial intelligence to increase mobility and quality of life.
- In the fall of 2009, five students from three different colleges came together to design a product that would make the world better. All of
- The Wound-Pump, provides inexpensive, portable, sustainable Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) in all environments around the world.
