PRO(TECH)T, LLC.

April 01, 2016

I had the privilege of serving again as a judge for the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), this time for the U.S. National Competition, in which the winner received $10,000 and round trip airfare to compete against 49 other country champions...

March 04, 2016

 Third-place honors went to UNC Asheville student and Pro(TECH)T, LLC. CEO Madison Eddings who created a wearable technology to fight campus sexual assault, as 1 in 4 women are sexually assaulted by the time they graduate college...

February 02, 2016

From service days to social entrepreneurship, UNC Asheville students understand the value of giving back and making an impact on their community and world. Now, that pairing of purpose and passion has a new number – No. 1, as UNC Asheville earns the top spot on The Princeton Review’s annual list of “Best Schools for Making an Impact.”...

October 08, 2015

Sexual assault. It’s not a nice term. And I wish it wasn’t something we had to talk about. The unfortunate truth is that there are about 293,000 victims of sexual assault annually in the United States (that’s more than one every two minutes), with 44% of victims under age 18 and a whopping 80% of victims under the age of 30.*...

October 05, 2015

 There is no question that sexual assault and rape are heinous crimes against humanity. In my opinion, public perception of it should be similar to how we view cannibalism: inhuman, horrifying, and intolerable in today's society. As a college student, I see the impact sexual assault has on students far too regularly which inspired me to do something about it...

September 23, 2015

Two students’ idea to create a technology capable of preventing sexual assault is finally coming to fruition.

Madison Eddings, cellular and molecular biology student, and Ben Eisdorfer, management student, invented a wearable bracelet called Pro(tech)t. Using cellular-based data, the bracelet alerts campus police, at the touch of a button, in the event someone feels endangered.

“We’ve both always had a passion about rape culture and sexual assault in general, as well as the issues it causes,” Eddings said. “Sexual assault is such a big issue and it has so many pieces to it. It really does come down to the need for a cultural change for it to be lasting. It also needs an immediate fix and solution..”

September 23, 2015

On a quiet afternoon at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, two students began the development of an idea/plan to fight sexual assaults on college campuses. What started off as a simple project for a social entrepreneurship class could be the most innovative and technologically advanced campus safety device set to be eventually on the market...

September 11, 2015

NORTH CAROLINA (WPMI) Two young North Carolina entrepreneurs have hatched a plan to make college campuses across the nation safer. It started with a class project. Now it's led to a patent on a new device and a startup company for a couple of college kids, just looking out for one another...

September 09, 2015

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Two young entrepreneurs have hatched a plan to make college campuses across the nation safer...

September 09, 2019

"We were actually sitting in my dorm room, trying to think of what we can do to help people" said Madison Eddings of her partner Ben Eisdorfer...

September 09, 2015

It started with a class project. Now it's led to a patent on a new device and a startup company for a couple of college kids, just looking out for one another.

September 09, 2015

September 08, 2015

Two University of North Carolina at Asheville juniors have invented a device aimed at preventing sexual assaults on college campuses across the nation...

May 01, 2015

"We both have seen sexual assault impact people close to us and it is a topic that deserves more attention than it has been given in the past," said Eddings.

March 25, 2015

After winning the Social Entrepreneurship Conference, Madison Eddings, junior, and Ben Eisdorfer, sophomore, used their prize money to move forward with PRO(TECH)T...

February 23, 2015

“We were determined coming into this that even if we didn’t place, we wouldn’t stop with what we’re trying to do,” said Pro(TECH)t’s Madison Eddings after the competition. “But winning was amazing, and it invigorated us to keep on going as fast as we are.”

February 18, 2015

Madison Edings and Ben Eisdorfer won the UNC System’s 2015 award for their proposed wearable technology designed to reduce sexual assaults on university campuses. Students from 17 UNC campuses competed for the annual award...

February 13, 2015

UNC Asheville students Madison Eddings and Ben Eisdorfer were awarded the grand prize from the 2015 UNC Social Entrepreneurship Conference...

February 11, 2015

ASHEVILLE – When they arrived at a statewide social entrepreneurship competition in Greensboro on Wednesday morning, the UNC Asheville students were so nervous they were shaking...