Academia and entrepreneurship collaboration

Projects

Our student-led projects exploring innovative solutions to climate challenges.

If you are interested in leading a project in Winter 2026, please email our TAs with your name, program/year, and project idea so we have you on our radar.

Winter 2026 Important Dates

Applications Open

November 19th

2-Minute Project Pitches

December 3rd

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Shriram 104

For students interested in leading or joining a team

Team Formation Happy Hour

December 3rd

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Dutch Goose

Networking and team formation

Recent Projects

Circular Economy

Recovered Potential

Recovering nitrogen from wastewater to help waste handlers meet regulations, prevent environmental pollution, and circularize the nitrogen economy.

Team Leads

KW

Kindle Williams

KC

Kristen Corlay

Carbon Removal

Archeon Carbon

Converting CO2 into crystalline carbon materials using patented processes enabling semi-permanent carbon storage within next-generation materials.

Team Leads

GC

Grace Callander

GG

George Georgiev

Climate Adaptation

EcoCool

Providing affordable, power-free personal cooling products to the world's most heat-vulnerable workers and communities.

Team Leads

KA

Kunal Arora

NM

Nivitha Mavuluri

Emissions Monitoring

Telluscope

Offering real-time, localized tracking of GHG emissions and air pollutants for government, insurance, and industrial clients using low-cost sensors & AI models.

Team Leads

KB

Kathryn Bacher

DS

Deepan Shah

Energy Optimization

Pravāh

Pravāh saves utilities' power procurement costs (often in tens of billions) by doing real-time optimisation of their grid operations using machine learning techniques like GNNs.

Team Leads

DS

Dhruv Suri

MM

Mohak Mangal

Climate Resilience

FloodWatch

Predicting rain-induced flash floods in real-time and at hyper-resolution to support flood preparation and response.

Team Leads

KM

Kevin Mayer

RS

Ralph Skinner