Education, Agriculture, Technology

EAT is a Chicago-based nonprofit that focuses on food production and technology as a means to enhance education, personal health & environmental awareness. It does so by hosting hackathons, engaging other non profits, and facilitating funding. Data farming for urban farming.

As for my involvement, I authored a research proposal for education, agriculture, and technology in urban youth. It proposed means of human-subjects methodology supported by extensive literature review, and consulted generally on the various research projects and tech deployment.

Here’s some press about their first ‘spots’:

And some of the data-gathering from hackathon lives on at the Chicago Urban Agriculture Mapping Project (CUAMP)

it starts...

it starts…

it takes over

it takes over

Chicago's Center for Neighborhood Technology 2nd Hackathon

Chicago’s Center for Neighborhood Technology 2nd Hackathon