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Rapid Innovation Teams Impress with Solutions for Energy and Space ⟩
Our Spring 2023 Rapid Innovation course ended with final presentations on April 21st. Students gathered along with their sponsors and a few special guests from the university to showcase their solutions for the challenges this semester.
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Rapid Innovation Team Leads a Conversation on Selling Green Energy Projects ⟩
This week, Hannah and Diego led the discussion at our Sustainable Energy Community Conversation to talk about what they have learned in the first few weeks of the course about their challenge and to get feedback on their ideas while hearing about some options they might not have considered.
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Rapid Innovation Final Presentations for Fall 2022 ⟩
PUBAFRS 5620 Rapid Innovation for Public Impact, a course offered each semester, gives students the opportunity to work directly with organizations on challenges they are facing. This fall, challenge sponsors included a for-profit geospatial imaging company, BlackSky, the Ohio Department of Transportation, and the Missile Defense Agency in partnership with the NASA.
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Ohio State’s Innovation and Public Administration Experts to Lead National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Academic Consortium ⟩
The Ohio State University will lead a multi-university consortium to serve the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) need for education, workforce development, and research in geomatics and other applied sciences.
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Ohio State ECOAir Team Presents to Sustainable Energy Student Community ⟩
The Ohio State ECOAir team presents to our Sustainable Energy Student Community
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Student Human Trafficking Data Project Moves to Statewide Effort ⟩
Team ARIA from the Spring 2021 iteration of our Rapid Innovation course has seen their solution rise to a statewide effort to combat human trafficking.
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Spring Semester Brings Our Largest Rapid Innovation Course  ⟩
With 30 students spanning 7 teams, our Spring 2022 course is the largest we have ever run.
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Ohio State Battelle Center Receives PIT-UN Funding for New Student Fellows ⟩
New America’s Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) has made Ohio State Battelle Center for Science, Engineering and Public Policy one of their 2021 Grantees for their annual Network Challenge.
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Rapid Innovation Solutions: Feed the Need ⟩
PUBAFRS 5620: Rapid Innovation for Public Impact is a course that challenges students to tackle wicked problems. Students are put into interdisciplinary teams and given a problem sponsored by a government agency or non-profit.A student team in our Rapid Innovation course tackles the complex problem of food insecurity.
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