The Paseo Public Prototyping Challenge is designed to incubate solutions to pressing social and environmental problems through multidisciplinary collaboration and technological innovation.
Multidisciplinary student teams from San Jos̩ State University will be selected, mentored, and provided seed funding to develop civic innovation prototypes for presentation at the Paseo Public Prototyping Festival Рan arts, culture and technology festival held at the newly opened SJSU/ Hammer Theatre Center in Spring 2017.
I attended the launch on 9/21/16. Here are some dimly-lit pictures proving that I was present:
The launch began with several important people discussing how important it is that people collaborate to fix a problem within the community. I've listed the speakers below.
- Dr. Lisa Vollendorf, Dean of College of Humanities and the Arts
- Danny Harris, Knight Foundation Program Director
- Paul Lanning, VP of University Advancement
- Sid Espinoza, Director of Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at Microsoft
These people all had the same general message. San Jose focuses on tech and innovation, yet our community is filled with rising housing prices and homelessness. We are the next generation of change and the leader of social movements. We need to shift our political attention to sustainable cities. Goal of zero bike and pedestrian deaths. Basically, this challenge is supposed to be the appeal to young people to fix the problems that the old people created, as is the case often for engineers. Our challenge is to prototype something cool with the chance to win $10,000. They even gave out raffle prizes of Intel Arduino and Edison and a Microsoft Edge 4. Personally, I think the raffle prizes were unnecessary and the event was a bore. But the cookies afterwards weren't half bad.
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