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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">They have designed and built a walker that utilizes hydraulics, allowing for the legs of the walker to be quickly adjusted, so that it can be used on stairs.</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Buddies without Borders aims to bridge the gap between domestic students and international students starting with an in-person pair up then followed by a comprehensive website that allows members to define their profiles and micro-blog by text, photo, and video sharing.</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">This project's goal is to create a platform of exercises and games that, with the Microsoft Kinect, will allow for motion tracking of a physical therapy (PT) patient during their exercise routine at home.</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">This team is designing a series of low speed and high efficiency commuter vehicles that utilize hub motor technology to allow people to travel using purely the energy of the sun.</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Their project aims to develop a fully 3D printable denture system as an alternative solution to expensive dentures manufactured using traditional casting and milling methods.</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">They created a novel and revolutionary sports equipment construction centered around an innovative shear-thickening material</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">This project aims to develop a wearable device connected via Bluetooth technology to a mobile phone, that, when activated, sends emergency alert signals to a list of emergency contacts.</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Word Builder is an interactive toy designed to help children build the foundations of reading at an early age.</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Their goal is to open a homework center for students from low-income families in a poverty stricken town/city such as Lawrence, Massachusetts.</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Their project is a hydroponic garden that is equipped with an environment monitoring system that ensures optimal growing conditions for plants and requires little to no maintenance.</span>
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=== '''DifferenceMaker™ Program Available Resources''' ===
*'''DifferenceMaker™ Central'''
**Large open office collaboration space equipped with Wi-Fi, 3 Mac computers, printer/copier, 2 46” LCD TV monitors with projection capabilities, 6 white boards, 10 tables with chairs all equipped with wheels that can be easily rearranged for optimal use and collaboration, refrigerator, sink, cabinet space, coffee maker and other necessary office supplies.
*'''Hawk Hatch'''
**Philanthropic Crowd Funding Source
*'''Grants'''*'''Networking'''
**Mentors
**Faculty Fellows and DifferenceMaker™ Staff
*'''Events'''
**Series of Educational Entrepreneurial Workshops including materials
**Problem, Opportunity, Solution, Resources, Pitch Coaching
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Hydraulic Walker ($5,000)</span>'''
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Ryan Andrews - Physical Therapy Graduate</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Significant Social Impact</span>'''
'''<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">1st Place</span>'''<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">- </span>'''L''''''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">ove of the Game ($4,000)</span>''' <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Love of the Game is a community outreach program aiming to integrate universities and people with physical and cognitive disabilities through sports.</span>
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Jessica Dion - Exercise Physiology '16</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">2nd Place - Buddies Without Borders ($2,500)</span>'''
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Tugba Arsava - Community Social Psychology Graduate</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">1st Place - Playable Therapy ($4,000)</span>'''
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Suhaib Alfageeh - Computer Science '16</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">2nd Place - Solar Electric Vehicles ($2,500)</span>'''
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Suhaib Alfageeh - Computer Science '16</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">1st Place - Masela Dentures ($4,000)</span>'''
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Cormac Hondros-McCarthy - Plastics Engineering '15</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">2nd Place - </span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">KEnDERS Athletic Body Armor(</span><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">$2,500)</span>'''
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Elizabeth Kender - Plastics Engineering '16</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">1st Place - Mayday ($4,000)</span>'''
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Cibhi SelVan- Business Graduate</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''2nd Place''' - </span>'''<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Word Builder </span>'''<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">(</span>'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">$2,500)</span>'''
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Sergio Coronado - Computer Engineering '16</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Low-Income Community Homework Center ($1,500)</span>'''
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Arnaldo Rivera - Psychology '15</span>
'''<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Indoor Hydroponic System ($2,500)</span>'''
*<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Rapheeporn Aungaphinant - Business Graduate</span>
