Eye-Dentify(’20 Extreme project) Featured by Stanford News

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The 2020 Extreme Eye-dentify team has continued to make great strides since the class! In partnership with their partner, the Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP), the team has been focused on addressing the challenge of manual data collection needed during the organization’s high-volume cataract surgical camps. The team’s progress and recent successful pilot in Ghana with their developed […]

Nutshell Coolers hit the market (’18 Extreme Alums)

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Fortuna Cools, an organization co-founded by 2018 Extreme Alum’s Tamara Mekler & David Cutler, have officially launched their first sustainable consumer product – the Nutshell Cooler! The cooler is collapsable, biodegradable, and insulated with leftover coconut husks from small-scale farmers in the Philippines (providing the rural community with an additional source of income and new jobs). The idea […]

Seeking 2022 Bay Area Partners

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For our 2022 program (Jan-June) we are seeking new partner organizations in the SF Bay Area that can be described as being: // SOCIAL MISSION DRIVEN // FOUNDED OR SUPPORTED BY STAFF FROM THE COMMUNITIES THEY WORK IN OR PROVEN HISTORY OF RECEIVING ONGOING COMMUNITY INPUT   // CONNECTED AND TRUSTED WITH THE POPULATION THEY ARE […]