This October, students joined the Community Impact Challenge: Wellbeing where they developed ideas to promote wellbeing in their communities at BU and beyond. The ideas ranged from fitness classes to book clubs to environmental health websites. Sixteen teams were chosen as finalists and will each receive a $500 seed grant to help them launch the project.

Join us on Friday, November 20 at the Community Impact Challenge Finalist Showcase to: 

• Hear one-minute pitches from the each finalist team.
• Vote for one team in the BU Ideas Track and one team in the Local Community Track categories to win an extra cash prize!

• Using Remo, visit each team at their showcase tables to learn more about their idea, share feedback, or learn how to join their team.

• Learn more about the Community Impact Challenge hosts: Innovate@BU, Wellbeing Project, BU Student Government, and UMOJA: The Black Student Union.

BU Community Track:

• Teeth n’ Bones: Community Based Medical Nutrition (Annce Kadri, SDM) will teach dental students how to cook healthy meals using available resources, like its  Community Cupboard, so they can pass on this information to their future patients.
  
  
• Food For Every Terrier (Giovanni DiMaggio, CAS) aims to be an app for on-campus dining options to sell discounted food that would otherwise be thrown out that night.
  
  
• BU NutriGeeks (Ioanna Yiannakou, MED; Yuhan Qui, MED) is a YouTube channel led by a registered dietitian to teach BU students, faculty/staff, and the wider community how to prepare easy, time-efficient, on-budget, and healthy recipes.
  
  
• The Queer Art of Reading & Resilience (Jeremy Schulz, STH; Triss Ingels, STH) will produce culturally grounded and competent events considering the practice of “reading” as a communal and spiritual act that uplifts the life resiliency, and survival of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and other non-white transgender and non-binary individuals–and provide a series of virtual events that showcase different facets of Queer Life and Spirit.
  
  
• Shake It OFF! (Kevin Kim, MED; Raissa Zuim Dantas De Souza, MED; Sydney Mosaheb, MED;) will be hour-long exercise sessions that incorporate a 15-minute period afterwards to allow students to congregate and socialize with one another in Zoom breakout rooms facilitated by prompts run by Graduate Medical Sciences Student Organization members.
  
  
• The Mind-Body Fellowship at Boston University (Luca Del Deo, CAS; Oksana Chubrikova, Sargent) aims to be a collection of students, staff, and faculty, centered around a committee of undergraduate students, as well as a workshop series led by a combination of student and professional mentors that facilitate peer-to-peer discussions, provide relatable experience, and guide topics through areas of their personal interest.
  
  
• LifestyleYoga (Luke Piscitelli, MET) will maximize accessibility to yoga by creating 30-minute virtual sessions that are pay-by-donation.
  
  
• Nutricity (Maria Paula Fernandez Cortes, ENG; Victoria Gonzalez-Canalle, ENG) aims to be a sticker labeling system for food at City Convenience stores that makes the experience of picking out nutritional foods less overwhelming.
  
  
• Next Chapter: BU Book Club (Michelle Li, SPH) aims to be a virtual book club for everyone in the BU community.
  
  
• Free Reusable Masks for BU Students (Olivia Henning, CAS) aims to provide free reusable masks for students to address financial and environmental barriers and support on-campus life in an affordable and sustainable way.

Local Community Track:

• Project Inspire (Austin Negron, ENG) aims to be a program that connects the top college-level and above entrepreneurs with the younger generation of high school leaders.
  
  
• Hood Renovationz (Daisy Figueroa, LAW) aims to improve the quality of life for individuals and our community via multiple projects that will have a lasting impact in their everyday lives. This will not only a physical renovation but an opportunity to create a space that will improve mental and emotional wellbeing.
  
  
• Leafed Environmental (Devin O’Donnell, SPH) will be a website with 20 individual level climate solutions backed in emission and economic data to increase individual awareness, agency and action.
  
  
• SpecGraphixEDU (Eric Hansen, COM; Adam Chin, CAS) provides 16+ pedagogy and tech innovations exclusive in our classes for Brookline children and schools.
  
  
• Arrival Aerospace (Justin Fiaschetti, ENG; Austin Briggs, ENG) aims to be a platform to support in-space manufacturing to help life on Earth.
  
  
• The SICU (Surgical Intensive Care Unit) Garden Project at Boston Medical Center (Erin Kim, MED; Judy Wang, MED; Rishabh Sing, MED) aims to transform the SICU into a more inviting and welcoming space through the use of artistic expression and positive messages, in partnership with the Boston Medical Center.

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