MEG team competes at Hult Prize Global Finals
Federico Castillejo, Laila Berning, Saji Zagha, and Andrew Bonneau.
After placing first in the Hult Business Accelerator in England last month, Laila Berning (MEG-12), Andrew Bonneau (MEG-11), Federico Castillejo (MEG-12) and Saji Zagha (MEG-12) were invited to compete against five other teams from around the world at the Hult Prize Global Finals in New York City. Their proposal, Noor Medical, utilized solar, thermal, and electricity energy to provide medical instrument sterilization for rural and off-grid medical clinics.
Merely reaching the Global Finals represents a tremendous achievement: roughly 150,000 applications to last month's Business Accelerator were submitted from teams around the world, from which only 42 teams were selected. Not only did Noor Medical place first in that completion, it also won top honors at the Hult Prize Regionals in Tunis earlier this spring.
While ultimately their project was not selected in the Global Finals, the Noor Medical team remains committed to moving forward with their enterprise. They have already secured numerous key partnerships among the international medical and business communities including Riders for Health, a world leader in medical supply delivery to rural locations, and Aesculap, a division of BBraun, one of the largest surgical instrument manufacturers in the world.
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