timelinefeedz: Innovation Olympics 2017

I must say that I was very impressed listening to the 8 groups of students presenting their own technological solution to win the money seed from East West known to be one of the world’s biggest seed manufacturer as they launched "East West Seed Innovation Olympics" here at the University of the Philippines Los Banos Laguna. This competition challenged the young generation in agriculture, business and technology to come up with solutions that would help the small holder vegetable farmers. All the groups are amazing with their brilliant ideas. It feels good to hear the students with so much confidence and passion during their presentation. They delivered with so much passion and conviction that they deserved to win .Though there were still some missing points, I would say they have a very well experienced mentors to guide them all throughout this journey.

All the group have shown teamwork, intelligence and resourcefulness. They also had their 2 days boothcamp full of fun activities that equips and stirs up each groups great potentials and expertise.

Finally the announcement of winner that we all been wating for, From 8 student groups,theyre down to 5 groups then the judges announced their best 3 after their deliberation.

The winning pieces are the online platform called e-magsasaka transforming smallholder farmers to agri-preneurs, then is the multi-crop dryer that hopes to significantly increase farmers'revenues and reduce post-harvest losses and a tech intervention that could increase farmers 'yield by as high as 87.5% using text messaging.

Congratulations Team Agriviz, Team i- Agri Ventures and Team Oppa for being the top 3 winning student groups of East-West Seed's

They all received 150k as their money seed.

After this awarding day, the winners will have their 120 day to prove the effectiveness of their work and this is surely going to be tougher, more challenging period , just like the real competition has just began. They will continue to be guided and mentored until the grand winner day happening in January 2018

Congratulations again to the winner, all the participating student groups , they are all winners for the excellent ideas they have shared with us and great job also to East West Seed and GeiselerMaclang Network for these successful fun learning event.

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