Ask the average person what lines the streets of New York City, and the likeliest response will be buildings. Nestled at the foot of the city’s brownstones, skyscrapers, and towers, however, are the city’s street trees.
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Student-Led Space Combines Tech and Design Thinking for Social Good
One of the mains goals of Design Tinkering is to employ human-centered design and design thinking to create innovative solutions devoted to real social issues. It was precisely this mission that led to the creation of the Greenhouse and subsequently, to NYU students’ participation in several OpenIDEO challenges and submission of winning ideas for OpenIDEO’s E-waste Challenge and Women Safety Challenge.
NYU Tries to “Hack” Ebola
In early November of 2014, members of the NYU community came together to see if their creative thinking could help “hack” the Ebola outbreak and provide government leaders and health professionals with new solutions for containing the disease’s spread.
Innovation at the NYU Poly Prototyping Fund Showcase
Each semester, ten teams of students receive up to $500 to build a hardware or software prototype. Teams present their projects at the showcase and discuss what they learned through building and testing the prototypes, as well as what they plan to do next in the development process.
Student Groups Encourage Data Access
For NYU’s student developers, writing code is not always the most challenging part; it is getting access to the large amount of data that a successful app requires.
Looking Forward at the Women Entrepreneurs Festival
Several hundred female innovators from across the country recently came together to build professional skills and relationships, and to share experiences at the fourth annual Women Entrepreneurs Festival.
Create a Better NYU Hackathon
For over 24 hours in early December, NYU students, professors and alumni got together to code and build apps, websites, or data visualizations at the “Create a Better NYU” Hackathon.
Embracing Open Space Technology at 2014 IT UnMeeting
Following a successful inaugural event in 2013, NYU held its second annual IT UnMeeting on January 15th at the NYU School of Law’s Greenberg Lounge.
In Memory of Red Burns
Red Burns, who led ITP from its founding in 1979, was one of the most innovative educators of our time. For those who knew her, she was a mentor, a colleague, a leader, and a friend. She was ageless in so many ways. Despite our age difference, she was one of my closest and surely wisest friends.
TorchTech IT Share Fair Showcases Innovation
TorchTech events have included such occasions as the IT UnMeeting, a freeform technology conference; a panel discussion on cloud computing involving speakers from Amazon and Google, and a Networking Breakfast. Their fourth event, the IT Share Fair, was held on September 30th at the Kimmel Center.