THREE COLLEGE WINTER SESSION PROGRAM How can we improve access to clean water?

THREE COLLEGE WINTER SESSION PROGRAM

How can we improve access to clean water?

Why do we have the Three College Winter Session?• See how the 3 colleges can work

together• Experiment in collaboration• Use the unique skills of each college

of better our work• Tangibly help the world with our

work

Goal of the Program

• Tie in with the BOW sustainability certificate and the Grand Challenge Scholars Program

• How to improve access to clean water

This Year’s Program

Zimba Doser

Zimba’s Mission Laura Stupin, Zimba’s Product Manager

The Team

Wellesley Kavya Akash (coordinator) Xinyi Yan Asha Albuquerque Gabriella Perez Villalobos

Babson Latifat Owolabi (coordinator) Sean Prentis

Olin Juliana Nazare (coordinator) Amos Meeks Ivy Santos Andrea Cuadra

• Learning experience• Completely student run and

designed program

Approach

• Decisions• Delegation• Ideation• Discussion• BOW Collaboration

A Typical Day

How we were able to help the Zimba Doser team:• Approximate market size• Provide background research to aid expansion

plans and partnership• Analyzed user base and provided approaches

to understand users’ need in India• Provided alternate revenue generating ideas• Designed a performance measurement systemAny questions about deliverables, we would be happy to answer during Q&A

Deliverables

• Everyone has specialized training to offer

• Many Olin ideation processes can be adopted to this project

• Best experiences are from discussions that this project facilitated

Lessons Learned

Huge success this year!What we would like to change:• Not just research (sitting on

computers)• Letting professors know that we are

here• Working on a closer-to-home project• Less burden on the coordinators

Program for next year

• Student run, with more lead time for coordinators

• Ideas for projects:• Product development• Consulting for a local start-up or NGO• Consulting for a green energy start up or NGO that

is not local• Designing something for the three schools• Improving something in the community • Continuing to work with the Zimba Doser team

Plan for next year

• Allows students to get to know individuals from each college

• Able to work on something that maters

• Learning how to work with people with different backgrounds

• Exploring topics that are not typically covered in school

Why the program should endure

Administration: Adele Wolfson, Colleen Crawford, Joanne Kossuth

Professors: Max Kressy

Students:

Laura Stupin and the Zimba Doser Team

Acknowledgements

• Kevin Simon (Olin ’11)• Kate McConnell (Wellesley ’13)• Emily Shakleton (Olin ’13)• Aiswarya Kolisetty (Olin ’13)• Trevor Hooton (Olin ’14)• Sonia Agrawal (Babson ’12)• India Affordable Design and

Entrepreneurship Team