by jackie | May 9, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Featured
As part of the President’s Challenge introductory meeting, we had a mini team photo shoot. Check out how our photos progressed below. All credit goes to Rose Lincoln, Harvard Staff Photographer for taking the photos! We had so much fun with this that we’ll...
by diana | May 4, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Competitions
Amazing news, friends! Essmart wins its largest check to date – $10k in the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge! This is hugely encouraging to us, as we’ve come close to winning competitions but fall just short of the monetary prize. We’re entirely thankful...
by diana | May 2, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Competitions
The past week or so has been quite busy for the Essmart team. We made it to the HBS Social Venture finals and had the opportunity to give a five-minute pitch in front of a great audience. Unfortunately, we didn’t take home a prize. One of our semifinal round...
by jackie | Apr 21, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Thoughts and Ideas
Thursday was a busy day for the Essmart team. As a President’s Challenge finalist, Rob and I were fortunate to attend a lunch with Professor Muhammad Yunus. Each finalist team got to briefly describe our start-up idea, and then the floor was open for questions....
by diana | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Competitions, Thoughts and Ideas
Improved cooking stoves not going anywhere in rural Tamil Nadu, India. Why does Essmart exist? Why are we Essmart team members working on Essmart? These important questions were posed to some of our team members today. We had a Skype interview with an MIT IDEAS Global...
by jackie | Apr 17, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Competitions
Part of our team had head shots and group shots taken for of the President’s Challenge introductory meeting. The professional ones should be up on the President’s Challenge site soon. Below are some of the shots we took ourselves. We had a ton of fun, and...
