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M-HEAL has been involved with several events, competitions and groups on campus and beyond. These are some of the milestones and awards we have won along the way!

 

  • 2006-2007

    • Founded in fall of 2006

    • WMR trips and lamp design project begin

  • 2007-2008

    • Shift in lamp design – recruited Applied Phys graduate student with experience studying electrical grid in Uganda

    • Sponsored Student Organization status

    • First WMR Inventory Day, March 2008

  • 2008-2009

    • Lamp team enters 1,000 Pitches Competition (finalist in Social Venture category), Michigan Business Challenge, and Dare to Dream (grant recipient)

    • Weekly officer meetings, bimonthly mass meetings, Seminar series initiated

    • Second WMR Inventory Day, March 2009

    • Multiple design teams, Advisory Committee

    • Lamp to Uganda

  • 2009-2010

    • Engin 100 partnership

    • Search for community to work with, extending contacts

    • Bay Area Entrepreneurship Conference

    • First Development Weekend

    • Summer: first trip abroad to Nicaragua with the Appropriate Technologies Collaborative (ATC)

    • Aileen Huang-Saad is nominated for and receives the Outstanding Student Org Advisor Award from the CoE

  • 2010-2011

    • Deliverables/status updates expected of design teams

    • Enhanced Stethoscope Team:

      • 1000 Pitches (Winner, Social entrepreneurship)

      • Venture Shaping Grant

      • Featured in the Daily, CoE blogs

    • Design teams present at mass meetings

    • M-HEAL receives “Youth Achievement Award” from WMR

    • CentriCycle:

      • Dell Social Innovation Competition (Semifinalist)

      • 1000 Pitches (Finalist)

      • New York Entrepreneurial Experience

    • M-SEAT

      • Featured in the University Record

      • Featured in WHO publication of medical devices for resource-limited settings

      • International Finalists at the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration's student design competition

      • NHSTA conference in DC June 2011

    • Maternal Health Team:

      • U-M CGH: Student Global Health Day (Second place poster)

  • ​​2013-2014

    • ​Solar Fridge Team

      • ​Center for Entrepreneurship's JumpStart Grant for second prototype

Recognition

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