{"id":2563,"date":"2024-02-09T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2024-02-09T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:01:05","slug":"envs-contributions-to-the-woltemade-big-problem-challenge-spring-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"ENVS Contributions to the Woltemade Big Problem Challenge, Spring 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The The Woltemade Big Problem Challenge<\/strong><\/a> asks students to engage “entrepreneurial thinking to create a plan that could improve water quality in the Ohio River and\/or Lake Erie. (The) plan should rely on a business-focused solution to improve water quality in these bodies of water.”<\/p>\n

As part of the Spring ’24 Conversations Towards a Sustainable Future<\/a> course, five groups of students (consisting primarily of new freshmen majors and graduating seniors) are developing entries for the Challenge.<\/p>\n

These ideas were developed quickly and with students having little student background in business or entrepreneurial concepts. I think it’s working out really well.<\/p>\n

Dr. Matt Vollrath<\/a> of the Department of Economics and Business is helping us with these projects this semester.<\/p>\n

Slides on each of the projects were shared at the Feb. 7 Sustainability tAsk Force Meeting. Contact the students, or me (jbkrygier@owu.edu) with feedback!<\/p>\n

Citizen science water testing kits<\/a>\u00a0– Brandon Edwards, Ashley Bahrey, Caroline Cane<\/p>\n

Saline Solutions<\/a>\u00a0– Ryan McKee, Alex Bzdafka, Luke Miller<\/p>\n

Invasive Jewelry\u00a0<\/a>– Abbie Kline, Lauren Hollinger, Ella Neuenschwander, Braden Saeler, Payton Andisman<\/p>\n

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Elemental Advances – Using Sandstone to Heal Local Water Sources<\/a> – Matt Kelly, Charlie Hornacek, Andrea Pichardo, Owen Dooley,<\/p>\n

Environmentally Friendly Stickers<\/a>\u00a0– Chris Nagle, Neah White, Jordan Glover, Hayden Kelner, Maria Thibodeaux<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The The Woltemade Big Problem Challenge asks students to engage “entrepreneurial thinking to create a plan that could improve water quality in the Ohio River and\/or Lake Erie. (The) plan should rely on a business-focused solution to improve water quality in these bodies of water.” As part of the Spring ’24 Conversations Towards a Sustainable … Continue reading “ENVS Contributions to the Woltemade Big Problem Challenge, Spring 2024”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,49,147,154,155,19,150,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","category-climate","category-entrepreneurial","category-events","category-news","category-opportunities","category-research","category-special-events"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}