The team’s winning project is titled The Aria, a Home Allergen Sensor. The students shared that they came up with the name “Aria” because it means “air” in Italian. Their product concept is focused on helping people manage airborne allergens.
Read MoreOur speaker was Jeff Butler, who represented the United States at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Read MoreOur speaker was Margaret Moore, Travis County District Attorney. Mrs. Moore has focused on strengthening the relationship between the DA’s office and the various Law Enforcement agencies in Travis County.
Read MorePast President Harold Ingersoll introduced our three members for the Members Showcase: Don
Busby, Kimberly Gdula and Ron Greening.
Our speaker was Christopher Calicott, the managing director of Trammel Venture Partners, an Austin based Venture capital firm focused on investing in highly technical seed- and early stage startups.
Read MoreOur speakers were Ted Keyser and Chris Janawicz from the Helping Hand Home for Children, who discussed the work of the Home, the oldest continuously operating residential childcare agency in Travis County.
Read MoreOur speaker today was Johnnie Johnson, who started the Moving Families Initiative to better the lives of children under the age of 19 years old who are confronted with the challenges of being uprooted and relocated for various reasons.
Read MoreOur guest speaker was Stefanie Herdman from the Epilepsy Foundation of Central and South Texas, who shared her personal story about living with epilepsy.
Read MoreOur speaker was Jon Beall of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby who spoke on Climate Change. Jon is a former Rotary Club of Austin member (1990-2002) and is very active in conservation issues in Central Texas.
Read MorePast President Harold Ingersoll introduced Ashish Gadnis of BanQu (banquapp.com) who gave a lively high-level presentation on the disruptive technology called Blockchain and the humanitarian case for enabling bitcoin around the world.
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