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Pamela Biery

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Tag Archives: Foster School of Business

Loop this way, please

02 Monday May 2011

Posted by Pamela Biery in digital media, Social Change, sustainability, technology

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digital media, Foster School of Business, mobile apps, Net Impact

Net Impact and Colorado University Leeds School of Business with sponsor Ball Corporation created a sustainability competition this spring, awarding $12k in prizes.

Over 60 teams from prominent US colleges and universities tried to solve this problem:  how can municipal recycling collection be increased? University of Washington Foster School of Business students answered this challenge by designing a mobile application which maps recycling locations and motivates users by showing where nearby recycling bins are located, adding facebook and geocaching quests and then completing the Loop with partnerships and mobile advertising. Their Loop mobile phone application took first prize, $7,200 and the bragging rights over the likes of University of Southern California’s Mendoza School of Business (2nd Place), DePaul University (3rd place) and other competitors including, USC, Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Kansas, University of Virginia.

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