WEPICS

WEPICS - Women Engineering Projects In Community Service

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The 2017 Women Engineering Projects in Community Service (WEPICS) Competition

This competition is an exciting opportunity for STEM women students, engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers to support the sustainable development of the local community through innovation and entrepreneurship. In WEPICS, teams are encouraged to create projects that help to solve real challenges the community is facing. Each team has a chance to compete to win the $1,500 USD value scholarship Grand Prize.

Through our partners, participants will receive technical support including mentoring and creative work space, and the first two winning project teams will receive direct support to develop and commercialize their prototype products.

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) was founded in 1995 by Edward Coyle and Leah Jamieson, Professors at Purdue University, as a solution to two different problems:

Many engineering graduates lacked real world skills need for project management, such as budgeting, scheduling, communicating.
Many non-profit organizations did not have funding for needed professional engineering services to design displays and exhibits or keep relevant databases.

The solution was to use the skills of undergraduate students through the curriculum to provide services to local non-profit organizations.

The program originally started as an educational program, and finds its roots in the concept of "service learning"

THEN WOMEN IN STEM INITIATIVE

Prize Information

• $250 USD cash project development scholarships for two (2) outstanding project ideas

• $750 USD value award ($500 cash project development scholarship and $250 startup promotion package) for the 2^nd place project presentation

• $1500 USD value award ($1000 cash project development scholarship and $500 startup promotion package) for the 1^st place project presentation

Important Dates

• 01 January, 2017 Open call for registration

• 15 January, 2017 Registration Deadline

• 18 February, 2017 Round 1 - Idea presentations

• 20 May, 2017 Round 2 - Project presentations

FIELD TRIP

IDEA ROUND

In this round, each team has 5 minutes to introduce their idea present their ideas to a panel of judges from different fields.

The judges will select the best 10 teams to advance to the next round.

The 10 groups that passed the idea round will receive further support to complete their prototype and attend the final round.

MAKER SPACE TRAINING

The teams will be trained to use the Maker Innovation Space to create their prototype.

Here, groups have the opportunity to use modern machinery and equipment such as CNC Laser and 3D printers with a team of professional advisors.

SEMI ROUND

After 3 weeks of training and prototype design, the teams will attend a report session. The teams present the design of the product, from which they get the comments, suggestions and guidance from the technical committee before entering the intensive making phase.

The two groups with the best reporting will receive a $ 250 prize