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Year: Graduate student Interests: Energy, Sustainability and Emerging Markets Hobbies: Listening to and making music Company: PROaktif: a clean-tech company focused on reducing energy poverty levels,especially in developing nations, using cost-effective, transformative and easily applicable energy sharing technologies and strategies. Theproaktif.com Contact: aabbas5@uncc.edu www.linkedin.com/in/akintondeabbas Why I joined 49er Foundry: I joined 49er Foundry because of […]

Year: Senior Interests: Predictive Analytics, Technology, Removing Inequity Hobbies: Basketball, Watching old movies, Cooking Company:: Hot Route Analytics: Sport analytics company dedicating to bringing in-depth analytics and Hot Route Analytics is a sports analytics firm that is dedicated to bringing equity back to sports through in-depth insights and predictive analytics. This effort is led by […]

Year: Sophomore College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Belk College of Business, Sophomore Levine Scholar Interests: Technology, Behavioral Change, Environmental Health, Making an impact within my community. Hobbies: I am an avid tennis player, hiking fanatic, and love exploring the city of Charlotte. Company: SolCooking: is an educational and distribution platform focused on alleviating […]

Year: Sophomore Interests: Sustainable energy and technology to the biomedical sciences and genetics. Social change, specifically regarding female empowerment and closing the gender gap in STEM. Hobbies: Spending time outdoors, backpacking, biking, travelling, spending time with good friends, and finding ways to volunteer and give back to the community. Companies: Girls Who Launch: is a […]

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Year: Sophomore Interests: Social change, community impact, technology, finance, startups Hobbies: I love to read, watch Netflix, and continually tinker with new ideas Contact: skanwal@uncc.edu https://www.linkedin.com/in/samra-kanwal-3aa539140/ Why I joined 49er Foundry: I was looking for a community of like minded and driven students looking to create innovative solutions and make a lasting community impact. I […]

Year: Graduate student Interests: Technology & Making an impact in my community Hobbies: Exploring new ideas and opportunities Company: “Distributed Generation + Energy Storage System for Commercial Offgrid (DiGESSCO)- An integrated solution of business and technology to create basic electricity access to offgrid households, with main geographical target in low income countries impacted by energy […]

Year: Graduate student Interests: Sustainability, Social entrepreneurship, Business and Product development Hobbies: Playing Soccer, Lawn Tennis and dancing Company: PROaktif: a clean-tech company focused on reducing energy poverty levels,especially in developing nations, using cost-effective, transformative and easily applicable energy sharing technologies and strategies. Theproaktif.com Contact: oogundai@uncc.edu www.linkedin.com/in/olalekan-ogundairo-33b44065/ Why I joined 49er Foundry: 49er Foundry gave […]

Year: Senior Interests: R&D, Prototyping, battery technology, electric vehicles, robotics, videography, film Hobbies: Working out, filmmaking Company: Renegade Content Creation Contact: ewalla20@uncc.edu https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-wallace-b56534109/ Why I joined 49er Foundry: The access to all of the resources they had to help us develop Short Term Goals: Hone in on my 5 year plan Goals for my degree: […]