Wolverines on Wheels: Envisioning sustainable transportation on campus
Check out how Team 3 from the Winter 2024 SEED Course and Fellowship became Wolverines on Wheels – a new and enthusiastic student organization on campus!
BotaniBot: Designing sensory accessibility at the Matthei Botanical Gardens
BotaniBot, a navigation app designed for those with sensory disabilities, is one of the Winter 2024 SEED Course and Fellowship's incredible teams. But just how did they make it here?
2024 SEED Fellowship: Designing public accessibility
When Smriti Vamaraju and McKenna Owens joined the cohort of the 2024 SEED Summer Fellowship, they embraced the opportunity to investigate what accessibility looks like in public spaces – for a variety of important stakeholders.
LIFT: The importance of listening in the design process
LIFT, which stands for “Leveraging Inclusive Functional Transfers,” is a project team dedicated to offering support for those who provide care for older adults.
Introducing: The Innovation in Action Fellowship
Ten years later after its first cohort of teams, Innovation in Action is expanding into the summer with the very first Innovation in Action Fellowship.
AudioOdyssey: Protecting Long-Haul Truckers One Story at a Time
This IiA team spent the last year building a platform designed to prevent drowsy driving accidents among truck drivers through engaging and interactive audio entertainment with the mission to stop accidents on the road and save lives.
IiA 2021 & Envisioning an Anti-Racist World: Team Features
Student teams from across the University of Michigan worked for several months to imagine a future world--and a future campus-- that is anti-racist and developed solutions through C-SED's Innovation in Action program.
Innovation in Action…is Running Virtually!
We are excited to apply our own design process to this year’s program and re-design IiA to meet students where they are: online!
INNOVATION IN ACTION: 2020 Final Showcase
On the morning of a typical Innovation in Action Final Showcase, you can find a familiar scene: teams of students nervously checking their microphones and rehearsing their pitches; judges from all over the country readying their score sheets; and staff members double-checking each detail to make sure every team has the chance to showcase five months of hard work.
Innovation in Action Team Feature: Reproactive
ReproActive is focused on solving communication and education issues related to sexual and reproductive health for adolescents and young adults. Knowing this a highly stigmatized topic, ReproActive aims to deliver unique tools to relevant stakeholders, adolescents, young adults, healthcare providers, and parents.