Teams led by engineering students have been awarded funding through the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative. AlphaStripe, FlashFood and SafeSIPP won funding, and G3Box received a second year of funding through the program.
AlphaStripe is a global, online networking platform for military service members, military families, civilians, and humanitarian organizations to share war-time and conflict zone stories in video, photo, audio, and journal formats. AlphaStripe is led by mechanical engineering graduate student, Eli Chmouni.
FlashFood, G3Box and SafeSIPP developed their projects in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program.