Social Innovation Competition:
2008 Social Innovation Competition Semifinalists
The RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the University of Texas would like to thank all students who submitted entries in the 2008 Social Innovation Competition. We received entries from over 1,000 contestants in this record-breaking year. The RGK Center applauds the creativity and ingenuity of all who participated.
For those whose ideas just missed the cut, don't stop dreaming. We encourage all entrants to refine your ideas and submit again in next year's competition.
Semifinalists
Forty-eight innovations have been selected to move forward and compete in the semifinal round of the competition. Congratulations to the following student social entrepreneurs:
Tanushree Aggarwal
Matt Albrecht
Zehra Ali, MIT
Kevin Alviar, University of Texas at Austin
Emmanuel Arnaud
Joseph Bamber, MIT / Harvard
Sanjay Basu, Yale University School of Medicine
Kendra Bauer, University of Texas at Austin
Kim Belcik, University of Texas at Austin
Erik Bengtsson
Sarah Bird, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Howard Bornstein, Stanford University
Mike Braun, University of Texas - Pan American
Ilana Brito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emma Brunskill
Alicia Cerna, Rice University
Amanda Chadee, University of Texas at Austin
Meera Chary
Steven Clary, Texas A&M University-College Station
Robert Crawford, Rice University
Damion Croston, Ohio University
Martin De La Cruz Medina, University of Texas - Pan American
Swapnil Deopurkar, University of Michigan
Paul DiCapua, Yale University
Megha Doshi, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Drew Durbin, Brown University
Edward Durkee, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Ximena Fernandez Ordonez, Harvard University
Brandon Gador, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Philip Gennett, UNC-CH
Lyria Gonzalez, UT Austin
Xavier Gonzalez, MIT
Aaron Gray, Texas A & M University
Steven Greenstein, UT Austin
Anthony Gross, University of Michigan
Amanda Grossman, Harvard Business School
Nathan Hall, Berea College
Mary Ellen Hammond
Monica Hau Le
Danielle Hayes, University of Texas at Austin
Chris Herndon, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Michael Karnjanaprakorn, New York University
Adam Kaye, Yale University
Andrew Klaber
Woojin Kim, Northwestern University
Gina LaMotte, University of Texas at Austin
Jeff LeBrun, University of Michigan
Daniella Leonard, Texas A&M University-College Station
Jennifer Malkin
Kevin Marion, University of Texas at Austin
Duncan Maru, Yale University School of Medicine
Sean McCarthy, University of Texas at Austin
Chris Meyer, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Inga Mghebrishvili
Chuck Michelson, University of Texas at Austin
Melissa Miller, University of Texas at Austin
Ali Moazed, University of Michigan
Jeff Montgomery, University of Texas at Austin
Annie Moon, Northwestern University
Courtney Morris, University of Texas at Austin
Abraham Nedumpalakunne, University of Texas - Pan American
Adan Nieto, University of Texas - Pan American
Rohan Nirody
Emily Nix
Justin Olmanson, University of Texas at Austin
Nurgul Oskonbaeva, University of Texas at Austin
Anup Patel, Yale University
Kunal Patel, University of Texas at Austin
Alex Pellett, University of Texas at Austin
Krzysztof Piekarski, University of Texas at Austin
John Pisciotta, Johns Hopkins University
Daniel Quick, University of Texas at Austin
Chip Ransler, University of Virginia
David Reich, MIT Sloan
Russell Rodewald, MIT
Khalid Saiduddin, MIT
Sadna Samaranayake, New York University
Erika Schmidt, Texas A&M University
Shara Senior
Seung-chul Seo, Northwestern University
Laurie Seremetis, University of Texas at Austin
Tom Serres, University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Seyller, Stanford University
Manoj Sinha, University of Virginia
Lauren Slive, UNC- Chapel Hill
Jessica Stannard-Friel
Robert Stavert, Yale University
John Tilleman, Brown University
Keita Nguyen-Trung, Northwestern University
Thien Nguyen-Trung, Northwestern University
Lisa Vecchietti, University of Texas at Austin
Eloy Vela, Jr., University of Texas - Pan American
Deyan Vitanov, Stanford GSB
Catherine Wadbrook, The University of Texas at Austin
Anthony Watson, University of Texas at Austin
Makiko Yamashita, Northwestern University
Iris Yen, Northwestern University
Krista Young, University of Texas at Austin
Joyce Zhao, University of Texas at Austin