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April 01, 2016
Schooled: 3 Lessons from Undergraduate Entrepreneurs
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
UPDATE: EO's Global Student Entrepreneur Awards
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
Making an Impact
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
PRO(TECH)T YOURSELF: A NEW WEARABLE TECH TO COMBAT SEXUAL ASSAULT
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
Game Changer: Invention Leads Crusade Against Campus Rape
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
Student inventors work to prevent sexual assault
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
PRO(TECH)T, LLC: Campus Safety At Its Finest
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
College Students Create Rape Alert Wristband
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...