Helen Anderson

Happy Medium’s goal is to bridge the gap between the arts and schools. We believe connections matter. We are bringing local communities together to achieve a common goal – Children having access to quality art instruction. We travel to school districts that have seen drastic cuts in their art programs and bring the arts with us. Happy Medium provides classes in all areas of the arts, including the supplies and an instructor at no cost to the school or the children participating. We believe that the arts are a right and we strive to promote their importance for children’s development. We are inspired by the fact that art teaches children that questions can have more than one answer. When Happy Medium comes to town, we engage the entire community in education and advocacy in support of arts education.

Sara Bose

In many Asian countries, the burning of rice straw is a common practice. This activity causes a layer of smoke to coat the area for four months out of the year. This smoke is filled with air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, and inhalable particles. growell is a company aimed at reducing this harmful pollutant. This is possible by teaching farmers to use the rice straw to grow healthy and natural mushrooms. The waste that results after the mushrooms are harvested is then used to create fertilizer, biofuel, and even food for animals.

Casey Carroll

The Bathtub is a personal project as an after retirement career option for my dad. Based on his flamboyant and lively mother this bar is meant to be a 1920’s themed speakeasy with a bit of a modern twist. Though impossible to keep the information about my project bar in true speakeasy fashion, as little as possible, the designs flourish but keep the information to more of a minimal.

Dana Christopherson

Forager is a food subscription service that is based on the Blood Type Diet. We take you back to your ancestral roots; back to when humans had to forage their own food and fend for themselves. As humans evolved and migrated so did their diets and in turn, so did their blood types. We believe that there is a direct connection between eating right and your blood type. Each blood type, O, A, B, and AB carry a unique antigen that marks different foods more or less beneficial for your blood type. Each of the four blood types process, digest, and react to foods in different and unique ways.

Josh Coyer

Spark is a home based creative space that yearns for self-employed individuals to collaborate on projects and generate quality work. We aim to create a community that allows freelancers to come together under one roof and work on projects as well as receive face-to-face feedback and network with likeminded thinkers.

Anna Danielson

Avail was created to help people with disabilities live their lives by literally opening doors for them. Avail is a phone application that automatically opens handicap accessible doors when the phone is within a set distance. The user gets to choose the appropriate distance depending on their personal needs. Someone who uses crutches will need a different amount time and space then someone using a wheelchair. Avail functions by emitting radio wave lengths that activate the opening mechanism on most commercial doorways that feature an automatic door opening system.

ANDY fitzgerald

Upskill is an online learning and networking community for people that wish to swap their skills with others. Instead of paying for various classes or lessons to aquire a new talent, Upskill allows you to look for people willing to teach you new skills in exchange for skills that you know. Essentially you are bartering and trading your skills with others. Upskill is a great way for people to improve themselves and learn something that they have always wanted to learn, while making new relationships with different people in their communities.

Vanessa Gilson

Duet is about bringing fans and bands together for the love of music. Bands want to be successful in the music industry, and fans want to see them succeed. Together these two groups come together to make their dreams come true. Bands can post whatever they need help with on our website, and fans in their community can look to see what bands in their area need help. This allows bands to get help without spending money, and it allows fans that might want a job working for a band the chance to help out.

Holly Goergen

Bigger Bit Bigger Bite is a community effort to help better everyone’s lives. When at a participating restaurant the customer is presented with the option to buy a second meal at half price for someone in need. The customer will fill out the meal card and leave it with the rest of them for someone else to come in and use the meal card to pay for their meal. This gives the person in need a full stomach, the restaurant more business, and the buyer some good karma.

Ben Heiden

Kardia is a short-range heart rate monitor placed a routine area of a house that monitors a person’s heart rate and detects problems. The problem with heart rate apps and worn devices is that they depend on a person’s interaction to make use of them. A sensor that routinely monitors your health would be more like a smoke alarm. This device could connect directly to their doctor and allow them to monitor patients’ health over a period of time without being intrusive or depending on the patient.

Jessica Johnson

Upop is an innovative pacifier that can be pulled apart to have its parts washed completely and have the option to replace the nipple once it gets worn out or outdated for the child. Upop strives for better hygiene for any child who uses it and to be less wasteful on the environment. Along with an app, this pacifier reminds the parent when it is time to replace the nipple on the pacifier because any small help or reminder goes a long way when you’re raising a child.

Pat Kavanagh

SnowTap’s goal is to utilize natural resources to create a clean water option for consumption and survival. With the world’s access to clean water becoming an issue, SnowTap is looking for new ways to supply the population with clean, drinkable water on different scales. Providing opportunities on a large scale for individual homes and companies and on an individual level, by creating a backpack attachment for on the go purposes.

ALLIE LARSEN

Second Shock is a clothing line dedicating themselves to outdoorsmen and the military. The clothing uses thermoelectric generators to create an electrical charge to power small devices like cell phones, etc. The clothing also has the ability to take the occupant's vitals and has a built in GPS tracking device in case they were to go missing. Attaching small pieces of the fabric to devices like flashlights and weather radios could produce a charge through motion and heat, and combined with the clothing line, has the potential to save lives.

Kelly Maiers

*RENOUN publishing is the only publisher with a dedication to printing media tailored specifically to the transgender, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary queer community. We publish in a short run format, making every book and zine exclusive in its limited quality. In addition to creating print media for and by our niche community, *RENOUN also offers internship opportunities available only to disadvantaged trans* applicants that offer a safe space to both work and live while building print-specific trade skills.

Deanna Metcalf

Whether or not we admit it, we all crave some form of drama in our lives. Drama is events or situations that frequently pops up in our lives. For some people, these events occur on a daily basis, or even an hourly basis. These days, the fastest and easiest way to share anything is through social media. However, most drama does not have the warmest welcome online…until now. Drama Llama (DL), the social network for sharing your everyday sporadic and dramatic moments. Drama Llama was created for the colorful, vivid & candid individuals that love to share themselves with the world.

HEATHER OSTERTAG

Digz is a company that provides people with the information and tools to build a self—sustaining space. We offer a variety of products that will save you money and energy, while saving the environment. Our products include Solar Panels, Green Houses, Wind Turbines, Composting, Water Collection, and Geo Thermal Heating / Cooling. We are proud to say that we are an online business and have a great online community. Digz partners with incentive programs that pay you back over time, or one-time payments of rebates or credits. Our products are packaged in eco friendly containers that contain modular products and are easily assembled. Digz, helping you help the future. Live sustainably.

Lydia Paasch

Funds is a nonprofit company that partners with major toy brands to create college funds for children. Each toy provided by Funds partners provides financial benefits through the online savings program. Through this program, our partners will match a percentage of the toys cost to the child’s college fund. Children and their parents can watch their college fund grow in their personal account online. Kids can have fun now while saving for their future.

Taylor reichstadt

The Barge is a floating barge used to produce and provide food for overcrowded cities. It can feed up to two families and is completely sustainable and is made from wood and recycled plastic. It does not use soil and runs completely on solar power energy. The water used for the system is recycled from the water it sits on. The Barge is a new structure to solve a worldwide problem. It draws attention to the uniqueness it has through its sustainability and the structure of the form itself. Competitors are nonexistent to this kind of different agriculture. Since it is a new innovative design it needs help to bring awareness to the product itself and the benefits it is supplying through our campaigns. This will hopefully show other cities and communities to take part and build one of their own.

Danielle Roberts

SpotHer aims to empower women in the weight room through education, instruction, and inspiration. Strength training has many health benefits, but also many associated stigmas that can be intimidating, especially for women. SpotHer aims to provide women with the resources they need to take charge of their health and provide all women with the confidence to experience the physical and emotional benefits associated with strength training.

Aavash Sakya

Harvey is not only an interactive digital experience, it is an exciting opportunity to travel through time and explore the past 100 years of one of the cornerstone buildings the University of Wisconsin-Stout campus. An exciting and educational opportunity to explore a 3D environment with meticulous adherence to historical details including people, events and objects that have been a part of the rich history of the building. Harvey has different objectives for the player that can be fulfilled by playing mini-games and events. It is an exciting blend of live-action and in-game CG narrative that will prove to be a once in a lifetime experience.

Dennis Sengthong

AVA (Aerial Visual Aid) is a hospital sent drone (quadrocopter) that is dispatched with an ambulance. While taking nontraditional routes she can arrive first and be a visual aid to the inbound paramedics. This would benefit highly congested cities in dealing with longer than average EMS response times.

Danika Smith

Cyto transdermal medicine is a patch designed to change the way you utilize your medication. With less of a burden on your memory, and the patch on your body, there is more time to find new adventures and help more people. Cyto is a discrete, environmentally friendly way to help yourself and the earth.

Ashley Svoboda

Bundlebake is a company that changes the way people use food to cope with anxiety. In today’s generation, at least 49% of adults living in America have said that they often overeat or eat unhealthy food as a way to cope with anxiety and stress, and the goal of Bundlebake is to educate consumers on how food can properly be used as a natural remedy to treat anxiety. The service functions as both a cooking school and a restaurant, so consumers can learn to prepare their own anxiety-treating dishes and then share healthy portions of their dishes with others.

SAM TIMMERMAN

Venture is an alternative learning program that strives to help people in finding their passions. Utilizing purposeful travel and experiential learning we work to create humans who are truly excited about their future by giving them the time and tools to figure it out. Through our learning program we provide an opportunity for people to study themselves and discover where their interests and passions lie. They are then able to take that experience and turn it into a formal education and career. Through our sabbatical program we strive to maintain those inspired and driven professionals by giving them the time they need to fulfill goals, do research, build new skills, and re-discover their passions.

Franny Van Eyck

With much of the world becoming digitalized, many of us don't realize how much of our lives are spent online. This high level of connectivity has negative experienctial effects on us as humans. If we often waste time online, what kind of time are we therefore losing in real life. Are we we missing out on real experiences due to the Internet and how will we ever know. Offset attempts to organize and present real digital data, that is already being collected without our knowledge, in a way that is visually interesting and understandable for the user.

MEASHA VIETH

Touring in a band can be exhausting on a person's health and finances. Day after day is another excursion of hours on the road to perform for maybe a smaller than imagined crowd with little pay and sometimes no place to stay, eat or shower afterwards. Gear can get stolen, be difficult to take with or break. Touring is rough in many aspects, but gig inn is a network here to help. gig inn brings musicians everywhere together. Join gig inn to find other musicians where you're planning tours and you'll have a place to stay, gear to borrow and note worthy connections for the future.

CARMEN WELNIAK

Urban Chow is a service that is trying to help stop urban hunger. We accept food donations from local restaurants and repurpose it to redistribute to locals who are in need. We are also partnered with Whole Foods for any remaining supplies to help further our mission to step urban hunger. During lunch hours, we set out in our custom food truck and scour the city to distribute our food to everyone. Patrons pay for our lunches with however much they can afford. Every nickel counts. We use that money to pay for our company to keep moving forward and to get the word out. Everything else we donate to the local food pantry. We're trying to stop local hunger and create a bigger sense of community. We want to give the public a better sense of knowledge of the urban hunger that plagues their community

CHRIS WILSON

Atlasea’s mission is to used the power of crowd sourcing and autonomous technologies to educate, entertain and to further scientific advancements.Atlasea manufactures these three-segmented AUV’s (autonomous underwater vehicles) that map the ocean floor in detail at depths down to 500ft. The AUV’s have a middle segment containing a ROV (remotely operated vehicle) that can be rented out to anyone where they can explore the ocean floor and view it through VR (virtual reality) displays, such as Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift. Individuals can then tag, share, and make real discoveries and receive real credit for their discoveries. There is also a school program called Aquanauts where kids can take part in making real scientific discoveries with the guidance of a science teacher.

DOM WRIGHT

Just Us is an integrated marketing communication platform targeted towards political and grassroots events around the user's city. Coordinating election, town hall meetings, protests, ect., Just Us empowers the casual user to participate in change within any local community.

SARAH ZIEGLER

Shape is about redesigning the notebook. I was very interested in how I could help students remember what they are learning during class. It uses a variety of different grids to get students writing in different directions and sizes to keep them more engaged during class. I am trying to bring the design grid into the classroom to show how fun and important it can be for both creatives and non creatives.