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Engineers without Borders
www.umaine.edu/EWB
UMaine Engineers Without Borders is a new student chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA. This organization is open to all UM students and community members who are interested in sustainability and working with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. They believe that they have the capability to be responsible, and that the cheapest, easiest solutions are not always best. Engineers without Borders envisions themselves as a catalyst in the local and global transition to a sustainable culturally-conscious world, where solutions must be evaluated with respect to their ecological and cultural impact. They are currently working with the community of Dulce Vivir in Western Honduras to improve their sanitation system, a project they will continue for another two years. This project includes addressing the basic need of the community in a sustainable way, implementation, evaluation of the impacts this project has on the community and follow up trips to the community.
LabelTop
www.labeltop.com
Hasan Adi
LabelTop is a product developed with the help of the Foster Innovation Center. LabelTop is a fun, intuitive system for finding and accessing your files and folders. It allows a person's most recent work to be right at their fingertips. They work with a variety of software. Usually they find something that people want or would like to have. If nobody else has made it yet, they build it.
Flannel Magazine
www.flannelzine.com
Sean Collinson & Travis Bourassa
Flannel is a semi-monthly publication dedicated to Maine arts and culture run by Travis Bourassa and Sean Collinson. The goal is to expose readers to the cultural significance of Maine life including the great outdoors, the creativity and the do-it-yourself attitude. The magazine is composed of photos, drawings, journalism, and interviews with Maine artists. The contents are submitted by local artists and writers, and portray Maine as more than just lobsters, tourism, and lighthouse paintings.
Local Food Solutions
Justin Jamison & Brooks Einstein
Local Food Solutions is a value added food processor that networks with local family farms to brand, process, and distribute their farm product. By providing this service LFS creates value two fold. Local family farms can receive a higher price for their product and maintain their farms identity throughout the supply chain, and consumer has easy access to local food and the piece of mind where it came from. LFS won the 2008 Green Products Business Plan Writing Competition and is currently working with a local organic dairy farm to pasteurize and bottle their milk.
Market My Menu
www.marketmymenu.com
Charles Drew & Calvin Bishop
Market My Menu is the website solution that restaurant owners have been looking for. Our software allows restaurant owners an exciting new way to create their online presence with the ability to track their customer base. It also allows them to send their promotional items (specials, newsletters and coupons) via email and text messages to their customers. All of this is accomplished through a web based control panel that only requires a knowledge of how to fill out forms and the ability to navigate the Web.
Sea & Reef Aquaculture, LLC
soren.hansen@umit.maine.edu
Søren Hansen
UMaine PhD student Søren Hansen is researching breeding tropical fish for the retail market. UMaine is providing the lab space for the research and the Student Innovation Center is providing the business development assistance necessary to commercialize this research.
Yo Bon, LLC
www.yobononline.com
Jason Bolton, Shari Baxter & Cathy Billings
Yo Bon has evolved from an award winning University of Maine Food Science and Human Nutrition product development class. They are embarking upon the commercialization of "the health savvy indulgence" - a delicious pairing of luscious dark chocolate and creamy wild Maine blueberry yogurt in Yo Bon Blueberry Bites. While delivering a decadent, luxurious taste Yo Bons also provide a powerful punch of antioxidants and calcium as well as probiotics and fiber.
Campus Bands
www.campusbands.org
James Gilmore
The Campus Bands Compilation is an album created to highlight the exceptional talents of student musicians at the University of Maine. It features diverse musical styles to fit the taste of any listener.
James Gilmore created the first Campus Bands Compilation in the summer of 2009 to be released for purchase at the Campus Bookstore, Bull Moose Music in Bangor, and iTunes this fall. Working with local partners, James was able to professionally produce the album and even supply each band with their first professional demo.
Anya Rose Productions
www.anyarose.org
Anya Rose
Anya Rose Productions is a documentary film company that aims to make science more accessible to the public by combining it with visual art and storytelling. Many scientists are required to have a “public outreach” component to their project in order to receive federal funding. Anya Rose Productions hopes to fill this niche.
Her most recent project entitled, “Tracking the Tracker,” tells the story of two groups of animal trackers who are testing their knowledge in a special evaluation. A good score on the evaluation allows an animal tracker to have more credibility in contributing to biological studies and conservation efforts.
Anya’s background in both film and environmental science allows her to tell the stories of scientists and their research in a more effective manner.
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