Social Innovation Camp Sunday: And the winners are….
April 7th, 2008
On Friday, we were enjoying the sunshine; we were a little surprised to wake up to a London snow fall on Sunday.
After a crazy weekend, we felt a litte bit like this
Despite the snow, the Social Innovation Camp team had only been in the building ten minutes when the first Campers arrived on Sunday morning.
With only five hours to go before Show and Tell, all the teams seemed to be feeling the pressure and, armed with breakfast, hurried off to their hubs for a morning for frenetic activity.
By mid-morning, entrepreneurial types, seasoned in the art of pitching, were giving teams last-minute advice and designers with CSS/html skills were at a premium as the finishing touches were made to the prototypes.
Lunch passed by in a flash with pasta and salad disappearing around the building as the deadline approached and, at 2pm, we herded everyone over to the Museum of Childhood for the Show and Tell part of the weekend.
In front of a packed out hall, the seven teams (including our sneaky rebel project) put on a fantastic show. We were staggered by just how much they’d accomplished in well under two days: there was some really thoughtful research on the social needs captured on short film clips; Barcode Wikipedia had built an entire working website and mobile app and the small-but-perfectly-formed team behind Rate My CV had done an incredible amount of work with a core group of only three.
And the winners of Social Innovation Camp 2008 are….
After every team had shown and told, there was a judgly huddle to vote on the winners of our £3,000 prize.
After some deliberation, they awarded £2,000 to Enabled by Design as the winners and £1,000 to the runners up, Prison Visits. (We’ll post a bit more on the judges’ decision elsewhere on our site where we have more room to do the projects justice….)
It may be clichéd, but it really wasn’t the winning that was the important bit. We were so impressed by every single one of the projects that came out of Social Innovation Camp and we’re looking forward to hearing about what the teams are going to be doing next with all the hard work they’ve put in so far.
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