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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are thrilled to announce that we have launched our 18th year of Extreme! Despite all of the setbacks that COVID-19 has thrown our way, we have 35 students from the GSB, Engineering, Law School, and Medical School who are helping us prototype this new, local version of Extreme. After speaking to a longlist of […]