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Video of Social Entrepreneurship Symposium up on Vimeo!

May 28, 2012 in Our News, Uncategorized

For those of you who couldn’t make it to the Tekla Labs Social Entrepreneurship Symposium (or who want to see it again!), you can check out video of all the talks on our Vimeo page.  Special thanks to all of our speakers for sharing their experiences and ideas; we hope you all feel as inspired by them as we do!

Speakers
Evan SteinerHub Bay Area
Teju Ravilochan, co-founder of the Unreasonable Institute
Tessa FinlevInstitute For The Future
Dr. Hal Aronson, co-founder of WE CARE Solar
John Danner, Professor in the Haas School of Business
Gautham Venugopalan, President of Future Scientist

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PrintMYLab Results Announced

May 13, 2012 in Our News

Tekla Labs is excited to announce the winners of our first-ever design contest, PrintMYLab.  Check out the winning entries here.

We’re working to make all the printable file for the designs available soon, complete with instructions documents for the designs requiring some degree of assembly.  Stay tuned and go Science!

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Starting your own initiatives: lessons from social entrepreneurs

May 1, 2012 in Our News, Tools for Scientists

Tekla Labs member Lina Nilsson has interviewed social entrepreneurs about their paths in developing international projects and products. Read about lessons from initiatves including WE CARE Solar and NextDrop and competitions including the Global Social Venture Competition and Big Ideas@Berkeley  in the Berkeley Science Review Spring 2012 issue:  Planting Seeds: Lessons learned from global social entrepreneurs

 

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You’re Invited to Our Social Entrepreneurship in Technology Symposium

April 24, 2012 in Our News

We’re hosting our first symposium!

May 1st. 12-4 pm. Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Hall, at UC Berkeley

Learn more and register for free at: buildforchange.eventbrite.com

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On May 1st Tekla Labs invites you to a half-day social entrepreneurship symposium featuring organizations leading the way in technology and engineering innovation. Featuring a diversity of perspectives,  including: established social ventures with a proven track record, funding organizations that support innovative social entrepreneurs, as well as up and coming initiatives from UC Berkeley students.
Find out about funding opportunities,  methodologies and support for social enterprises in science & technology.
Learn from success stories of student-initiated social enterprises in science and technology.
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GUEST SPEAKERS

Teju Ravilochan, co-founder of the Unreasonable Institute - http://unreasonableinstitute.org/
Tessa Finlev, Institute for the Future - http://www.iftf.org/
Evan Steiner – Hub Bay Area - http://bayarea.the-hub.net
John Danner, Professor in The Haas School of Business - http://ischool.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/johndanner
Dr. Hal Aronson, co-founder of WE CARE Solar - http://wecaresolar.com/
Gautham Venugopalan, President of Future Scientist - http://www.futurescientist.org/
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Countdown to April 30. 3D printing design deadline!

April 6, 2012 in Our News

Tekla Labs’ 3D printing competition is in the final stretch.  Enter now to win oscilloscopes, kindles, tools for your shed, Make magazine subscriptions, and more!

Read about the competition, and about Tekla Labs, in this recent blog from PC World: Tekla Labs Wants To Help You Print Your Own Lab

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Nature’s Soapbox Science talks the Future of Funding

March 26, 2012 in Our News, Things We Like

The most recent series in Nature’s Soapbox Science blog focuses on different ways scientists worldwide are funding their research in the current economic climate. Tekla Labs, Kickstarter, and Petridish are all featured as new avenues for scientists to fufill their research needs in the face of decreasing federal funding and parallel increases in crowdsourcing and social networking.

As part of this discussion, see Tekla Labs’ text on Soapbox for our ideas on engaging individual scientists as active global citizens.

Share your ideas!

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Innovations at UC Berkeley: Tekla Labs

March 19, 2012 in Our News


Check out this write-up about Tekla Labs in UC Berkeley Engineering’s magazine Innovations.

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We are Makers – Dale Dougherty talks at TEDx about ‘making stuff’

March 11, 2012 in Things We Like

and of course Tekla Labs couldn’t agree more. Go Make!
To see some of the type of creative stuff in the talk for yourself (or to showcase your own designs!), go to one of the Maker Faires. The next Bay Area Maker Faire is May 19 & 20. NY’s edition is in September.

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2-for-1 3D Printing Competition Submissions

February 25, 2012 in Our News, Things We Like

Tekla Labs’ 3D printing competition is on and the first designs have been submitted! We’ll be acccepting submissions until the end of April.

There have been some questions about the ownership/sharing of submitted designs: we’re encouraging everyone to be as open as possible and to share their designs through our website or other online portals. See the competition guidelines for details of our open license suggestion. However, this is ultimately up to you, and feel free to suggest alternatives that work for you!

In addition, Instructables is hosting an even larger competition – Make it Real – with $100,000 in prizes for the best designs! And best of all, you can submit the same designs to both competitions!  Thanks to Instructables again for sponsoring our competition at the same time as they are running their own and for supporting “2-for-1″ dual submissions.

Tekla Labs’ competition:

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Tekla Labs demo at Biocurious!

February 22, 2012 in Our News

This coming Monday, February 27th, Tekla Labs will be demoing some designs we are working on at the BioCurious hackerspace in Sunnyvale, CA. Join us there to hear more about what designs we are working on, and test out some of our recently build DIY lab equipment. Space is limited, so sign up soon!

DIY Research Grade Equipment for Laboratories in Developing Regions
Monday, February 27, 2012, 6:30 PM
BioCurious: 845 Stewart Drive, Suite C, Sunnyvale, CA