Awesome Foundation - Proyectos

Awesome Without Borders (Inactivo) – SenseU

2016-02-09T00:00:00Z

SenseU is a sex education game that aims to help young Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 to become more confident in their bodies by teaching them how sex works. Despite the fact that sexual activity has many benefits, many people in America think of sex as a negative activity. This game aims to reverse that perception by enabling users to communicate with digital characters who have questions about sex. In SenseU, players assume the role of a college resident advisor. By guiding and advising in-game classmates via a text messaging interface, players will learn about sex in a consequence-free space. SenseU will be available on Google Play and the App Store for free.

Oahu, HI – Castle HS Winterguard

2016-02-08T00:00:00Z

Castle WInterguard was created in 2014 by the colorguard program director, Jimmy Esquibel. After a very successful marching band season, Mr. Esquibel proposed the idea of creating Castle High School’s very first winterguard. Mr. Alconcel approved the proposal and in January 2014, the Castle Winterguard was created. The goals for Castle Winterguard is to provide education on the pageantry arts; further the growth of students by providing a sound, structured environment that fosters personal growth, self acceptance, self-discipline, and team work; and to promote the values of dedication, hard work and pride in ones accomplishments. Through positive reinforcement, dedication to our young performers, and with the promise to teach not only the pageantry arts but also foster creativity and acceptance of all, the staff of Castle Winterguard will accomplish the goals mentioned above. Winterguard is the sport of indoor colorguard. Modern colorguard is a combination of the use of flags, sabers, mock rifles, and other equipment, as well as dance and other interpretive movement. All of these elements are combined together to tell a story or to portray a concept to the audience. Winterguard teaches one to believe in their ability to accomplish great feats of difficulty not only for their own sense of accomplishment but also for the benefit of the guard as a whole. In 2014, Castle Winterguard performed at the Mililani SpinFest Festival. In the spring of 2015, the winterguard was unable to floor (start-up) due to funding issues. 2016 has started off positive for the colorguard program. Mr. Esquibel and our new staff member, Mrs. Chelsea Prendergast, coupled with some funding support from the Castle Band Aid Association (CBAA). The winterguard has the initial funding needed to start off but unfortunately not enough to meet the demands of the season. We hope to floor a competitive unit this spring competing at shows all over Oahu.

New York City, NY – SLIME - Students of Long Island Maker Expo

DivvyUp is a sock company with a mission to give amazing socks to the world. With every pair of socks you purchase, you give a pair to the homeless community. The project started in March 2014 out of Florida State University's entrepreneurship program. We saw the program as an opportunity to do something that gave back to the community. Unsure of what was needed, we thought the best option would be to take a trip down to The Shelter on Tennessee St. (before it moved to Pensacola St.) to simply ask how we could help. Expecting to hear shelter or food as their largest needs, we were really surprised when the homeless shelter expressed a huge need for clean socks. That got us thinking about ways we could give socks on a sustainable basis. Seeing that fun socks were trending on our college campus, we decided to buy a batch of designer socks with a mission to give pair to the homeless shelter for every pair sold. We received a $400 loan from our professor to purchase inventory and set up on campus wherever we could. After 6 weeks, our project enabled the Tallahassee community to give 160 pairs of clean socks to The Shelter! After the initial success, we invested $1,600 to buy more socks and to build a website during the summer. Over the past year, we have sold socks at various markets and events around Tallahassee and through our website. To date, we have gifted over 5,200 pairs of clean socks to homeless shelters across Florida, with most going to Tallahassee's Kearney Center. This fall, we partnered with Dance Marathon at Florida State University (DMFSU) to create custom socks for their philanthropic organization. For every pair of DMFSU socks sold, we give $5 to their fundraising efforts and a pair of clean socks to the Tallahassee homeless community. After 8 weeks, we have sold over 370 pairs and raised more than $1,800 for Children's Miracle Network, Shands Children's Hospital and FSU's College of Medicine.

Alaska (Inactivo) – 12% Happier Class

2016-01-27T00:00:00Z

12% Happier is a class designed for less privileged women in our community to care for their inner wholeness. The experiential curriculum, which I designed helps women trust themselves more, handle feelings skillfully, treat themselves more kindly, and make good life decisions. In other words, live with more ease and yes, be a little happier. Over the course of 8 weeks in 90-minute classes at Many Rivers, women become aware of being witness to their body, heart, and mind’s rumblings, sorting through it, and being one’s own best friend. Each week women learn a new 12% Tool such as soothing breath (a certain breathing technique to kick in the resting nervous system and calm oneself) that they can begin applying in daily life immediately. As a pilot, Haven House and I partnered during Spring and Autumn 2015 to offer this class to two different groups of women that had received Haven House services. The spring class was 6 weeks and the autumn class was 7 weeks. Fortunately, we received great reviews from class participants of how this calming time together and tools for the week ahead were helpful in their lives. Pre-post surveys quantified positive learning also. In 2016, we want to partner again and provide one or two more sessions of our 8-week class, 90-minutes per week at Many Rivers. Haven House will again provide a staff member to assist with logistics and support to women, childcare services, transportation vouchers, and rental space. Again, I will voluntarily teach the class, provide incentives for women’s attendance, and donate childcare space (Art Barn). We would also like to expand this offering to women who are Head Start parents and WIC clients to touch even more women’s lives in our community. Because after all . . . everyone wants to be a little bit happier.

Rio de Janeiro (Inactivo) – O Embaixador

2016-01-27T00:00:00Z

Vinte mil soldados usaram suas armas na 2a Guerra Mundial, em nome do Brasil. Um brasileiro usou apenas a caneta para salvar milhares de pessoas, em nome da Vida. Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas foi embaixador do Brasil na França de 1922 até 1944, quando salvou milhares de refugiados do Holocausto. Em 1939, desobedeceu oficialmente o estado ditatorial e anti-semita brasileiro, e se arriscou emitindo incontáveis vistos ilegais e assim salvando milhares de vidas, sem pedir ou receber nada em troca. Receberam seus vistos diplomáticos desde os mais pobres até famílias de grandes banqueiros; artistas, atores, jornalistas, e centenas de perseguidos pelo racismo. Em 1941, foi submetido a um inquérito político pelo governo brasileiro por “emitir vistos irregulares a indesejáveis”. Souza Dantas nasceu no Rio de Janeiro em 1876, e morreu em Paris em 1954, sem deixar herdeiros. Desde então, sobreviveu na memória de poucos enquanto esteve esquecido pela história do Brasil. Braziiian Ambassador Luiz de Souza Dantas helped save the lives of thousands of refugees during Second World War. LSD, as he’s nicknamed by the director, saved not only jews, but lives of all those whom we don’t know or care where they came from. He did it “from the goodness of his heart”, says an FBI report and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, where he is recognised as a ‘Righteous Amongst Nations’. Even with all this, he was erased from the history books because of the Brazilian dictatorship at the time, which even sued the Ambassador for issuing illegal diplomatic visas to save lives. The documentary, which we are shooting, tells the story of this amazing human being, while showing some of the lives he helped nourish throughout the World. We have recently shot in Europe, and we are now preparing the material and transcripts, and editing the interviews.

2016-01-15T00:00:00Z

This project will be white coroplast signs with statements and questions that you don’t expect to face while you’re out and about in your daily commute. These statements and questions get people to think about deeper things other than their daily thought about what they’re going to eat that day or what they will watch on tv. The signs will say, “You Might Die Today,” “Do you deserve your soul?,” “Are you making the world a better place?,” and “Why do you exist?” The signs will have only those questions and statements. I don’t want to promote myself or a hashtag on the signs. I have already seen that people will react on their social media when they see the signs. The signs will be strategically placed at busy intersections or areas that attract a lot of foot traffic, so that the signs are seen by a large amount of people.

2016-01-13T00:00:00Z

TorBots FRC Team 1197 is a FIRST Robotics Competition team from Torrance, CA. Founded at South High in 2002 by Michael Ellena, our team has expanded to support youth robotics among all Torrance high schools, and Richardson Middle School. TorBots is student run and organized, aided by extraordinary mentors and amazing parents. Our current membership consists of over 80 students. During the build season that starts in January, students work at the South High School Robotics Shop after school and on weekends. Students develop and utilize their knowledge and skills in programming, mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as business proficiencies in management, public relations, finance, fundraising, and community outreach.