{"id":32871,"date":"2023-06-01T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T19:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/?p=32871&preview=true&preview_id=32871"},"modified":"2023-06-30T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:07:05","slug":"earlham-college-students-selected-to-compete-in-hult-prizes-summits-in-brazil-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/news-events\/earlham-college-students-selected-to-compete-in-hult-prizes-summits-in-brazil-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Earlham College students selected to compete in Hult Prize\u2019s summits in Brazil, Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Three teams of students from Earlham College have been selected to compete at the Hult Prize\u2019s regional summits in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and Taipei, Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hult Prize<\/a> is the world\u2019s largest social entrepreneurship competition and awards a $1 million grand prize for ideas solving pressing social issues, such as food security, water access, energy and education. This year\u2019s competition<\/a> challenges students to redesign fashion by launching ventures in the clothing and fashion industry to make it more sustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFashion has the power to create a difference and we\u2019re harnessing that power to make a difference in the fast fashion industry through sustainability,\u201d said Diprekshya Maharjan, the chief marketing officer for Ecothreads, a venture proposed by Earlham students that would manufacture recycled t-shirts using plastics commonly found in water bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ecothreads was selected to participate in the Hult Prize\u2019s summit in Taipei, Taiwan, from June 16-18. They were this year\u2019s winners of Earlham\u2019s quarterfinal competition on campus, which is sponsored by the College\u2019s Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity (CEIC)<\/a> and the campus chapter of Net Impact. In addition to Maharjan, EcoThreads also includes students Zohaib Asif, Loukik Nanda and Eric Ford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor our clothes, one of our core main values of our business is to connect the world through sustainable fashion,\u201d said Zohaib, chief operations officer of EcoThreads. \u201cTo that end we will have a traditional and modern integration of cultural designs from across the world. We will do that with a diverse team of designers who will help us create those designs. We will try to include a different element of every culture in our designs and connect the world with these designs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Earlham teams, Team Frextile, and Ethicali Rebodied will compete at the Hult Prize summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, from June 2-4. Team Frextile\u2014Aaditya Pillai, Fabijan Bagari\u0107, Armen Sargsyan, Nghi Le\u2014plans to produce biodegradable vegan leather products made from bananas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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