Dear Seed Grant Applicants and Partners, Thank you for such wonderful and elaborate proposals. Our panel of 14 judges scored each proposal on 10 broad parameters – context and collaborative approach, relevance and impact potential, feasibility and scalability, intellectual merit, future potential, gender and equity, interoperability, risk attribute and value to Purdue. After extensive deliberation we have picked top 8 proposals for the next and the final round. The finalists are mentioned in the table below. Congratulations to the Purdue researchers and our partners! Next Steps: I will get in touch with the selected team to share the feedback from judges on their proposals. These team now have to prepare a short presentation (4 slides max). The presentation will happen via WebEx on April 2nd , 8:30am to 12:30pm. The judges panel (including partner representatives) will be evaluating each presentation to pick the final awardees. Please let me know if you have any questions. Congratulations again! I will be in touch soon. Finalists Problem Statement Partners Purdue Researchers Execution Region Finalists #1 GirlEngage program Molly Fitzgerald and Sarah Havekost, Plan International USA Jennifer DeBoer, Coll of Eng. Zimbabwe Finalists #2 Sensor technologies for real time monitoring of mosquito populations through heat maps Ajit Rangnekar, Bhubesh Kumar, Paridhi Gupta and Srinivasa Mutheneni, Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH), of the Govt of Telangana, India and Prem Vislawath, Marut Dronetech Bryan C. Pijanowski and Kristen Bellisario, College of Agriculture India Finalists #3 Desalination of water in arid and semi-arid areas NyoTonglo Arowo and Abarham ChirChir, Moi University, Kenya Harun Ringera, World Concern David M. Warsinger, Coll of Engineering Kenya Finalists #4 Solutions for Food Storage and Transportation in Bangladesh Kazi Arafat Rahman, Bangladesh University Martin Biswas, World Concern Eckhard Groll Coll. of Engineering Bangladesh Finalists #5 Models to predict health behaviors for maternal and child health Ruchit Nagar, Mohammad Sarparajul Ambiya and Saachi Dalal, Khushi Baby Priya Ajmera, N-Core Foundation Nan Kong, Coll. of Engineering Guang Cheng, Coll. Of Science Vinayak Rao, Coll. Of Science India Finalists #6 Monitoring Air Pollution and Pollution Control Suhail Shaikh and Ravi Kaushik, Social Alpha Brandon E. Boor, Coll. of Engineering Jun Chen, Coll. of Engineering India Finalists #7 Rapid qualitative coding of data to support agile humanitarian prog. Dan Schimmel and Isadora Quay CARE Barrett S. Caldwell, Coll. of Engineering Global Finalists #8 Affordable water meter at scale Shivani Sood, Aanand Kumar and VR Raman, WaterAid Guillermo Paniagua, Coll. of Engineering India Kind Regards, Pallavi Gupta Assistant Director of Programs Shah Family Global Innovation Lab Global Engineering Programs and Partnerships Office: 765-496-7311 | Mobile: 304 545 1525 | gupta604@purdue.edu<mailto:gupta604@purdue.edu> [/Users/gupta604/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Outlook/Data/Library/Caches/Signatures/signature_509912464]