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COMPETITION: What’s Your Issue? Video Contest
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Charles Tsai.
Ashoka GenV is pleased to support What’s Your Issue? – Film Your Issue initiative and competition.
We invite youth ages 14 to 24 to submit a 3-minute video, presenting an issue they care about and a proposed solution.
Winning solution-projects will be presented to senior officials in the Obama administration, broadcast on screens in every Best Buy [...]
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COMPETITION: Community Impact Challenge
Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by Charles Tsai.
Interested in taking your Venture to the next level?
Apply now for the @15 Community Impact Challenge with Ashoka’s Youth Venture. Fifteen (15) finalists will be selected based on the potential for community impact and long term sustainability. The finalists will be equipped with camcorders and provided coaching in grassroots marketing as they compete online for [...]
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Stories of Change ebook
Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Charles Tsai.
Ashoka recently published an ebook featuring our youth venturers and their projects. You can view or download it. Spread it to your friends.
Stories of Change – Vol 2 : Youth Making A Difference
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INTERVIEW: Hemant Sahal on Inventions
Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by Charles Tsai.
Continuing our interview series with youth who have launched invention ventures through our Invent Your World campaign, we bring you this interview with Hemant Sahal, inventor of the CALLMAT.
1) Your invention venture, CALLMAT, aims to address the problem of water contamination by offering a technology that would remove toxic metal ions and pollutants. Why [...]
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Gopher Tortoise – A Model for Humanity
Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by Charles Tsai.
Web of Life from Charles Tsai on Vimeo.
Forgive this personal post but on this global Blog Action Day, I’d like to share with you a story I did back when I worked for CNN. It was the first in a series of videos about biodiversity, a subject I had just learned about at the time.
Biodiversity [...]
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VENTURE: CALLMAT
Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by Charles Tsai.
Hemant Sahal, 20, India – When visiting his hometown in rural India, Hemant Sahal was struck by the number of people suffering from heavy metal poisoning. The source of this harmful waste is small-scale industry, which lacks the knowledge and resources to prevent the release of harmful by-products into local water supply.
To address this problem, [...]
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Invent Your World Winners
Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by Charles Tsai.
Ashoka GenV is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2009 Ashoka Lemelson Awards for young inventors.
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Invent Your World Winners
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These represent five of the most outstanding invention ventures from the 2009 Invent Your World Challenge – a partnership between [...]
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VOLUNTEER: Climate Crusaders in India
Posted on 27. May, 2009 by Charles Tsai.
The Indian Youth Climate Network is now recruiting passionate youth to be part of the Asian subcontinent delegation to the Copenhagen conference on climate change.
Interested youth can apply to be part of the IYCN’s Agents of Change program.
The IYCN Agents of Change program takes the IYCN movement from the grass roots to the international arena. [...]
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VENTURE: Algae Panel
Posted on 07. May, 2009 by Charles Tsai.
Erica Lawson, 17, USA - In 2010, stricter regulations will be applied to the trucking industry, requiring lower emissions of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons. Several truck manufacturers have proposed adding a tank of urea to each truck to control emissions, but there are many downsides to this technology, such as high cost, added weight, and consumption [...]
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