SHAPE

 

Columbia Engineering Summer High School Academic Program for Engineers (SHAPE) is a selective summer program for rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The program is geared toward local students who have demonstrated an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Each 3-week session offers college-level courses in robotics and computer science, which are complemented by electives in research skills and entrepreneurship, labs, and college preparation workshops. The entrepreneurship elective course teaches students the lean methodology via the business model canvas. Students work in groups to identify problems in our current market and their “customers”.

Special thanks to all our Entrepreneurship presenters: Jim Aloise, Julia Byrd, Sara Jayanthi, Ioannis Kymissis, Philip Loew, Boyan Penkov,  Dave Petrillo, Ivy Schultz, Chris Wiggins and Dario Vasquez.

Teams from Summer 2017

Session I teams (July 3 – 21)

  • TransEco: TransEco is an environmentally-friendly bus company that aims to provide a more comfortable commute for a reasonable price. Through a system that implements paying before you board and more frequent rotations, our company will provide commuters another method of transportation. It will be a convenient, consistent, and comfortable way to get to work compared the transportation currently available.
  • EzPoop: We are a group focusing on making and selling robots that are affordable and can pick up your dog’s poop and dispose of it on its own.
  • MediClear: To create transparency in the health and wellness industry by providing healthcare consumers with information about costs previously inaccessible to them. Consumers will care because it will provide them with more knowledge about medical expenses, helping them save time and money.
  • Teach N Reach: Live Local, Learn Abroad. To create a safe and fun environment for your mind to travel in the comfort of your own city!
  • Locked Out: Our team develops cyber security that is affordable for schools lacking proper resources. Schools that lack resources are not able to protect students confidential information, such as grades, addresses, and medical info. Our team hopes to alleviate the pain from this struggle.

Session II teams (July 24 – August 11)

  • 3D Printeers: With so many risks that come with prosthetics, such as breaking, losing, and wearing them out, acquiring a new one can take time and be very costly. With our product, customers could get their prosthetics in a matter of hours, for a low price.
  • Slide In: Our product is a new design for the wheels of cars. The wheels turn sideways, at a 90 degree angle, allowing cars to ‘slide in’ to parking spaces. Our product alleviates the painswith parallel parking, such as fitting into smaller parking spaces, needing to look behind you while parking, and stopping traffic behind you for long periods of time.
  • Greenergy: Make green energy affordable and accessible to all people, helping eliminate fossil fuel consumption from society.
  • TrakMap: Create a smartphone application that combines all of the different aspects and solves the problems of public transportation, Including, but not limited to, navigation, route finding, foreign language translation, scheduling, and delay notifications, on an international scale.
  • DriveSafe: Our goal is to provide a safe environment for the residents in New York State. To achieve this goal we will create a device that measures the blood alcohol level via infrared sensor; Once high BAC is detected, the car will be locked and the closest relatives or friends will be informed. Our device is reliable, small, and easily installed.

Learn more at outreach.engineering.columbia.edu/content/about-shape