These projects did not become long-term flagships, but each clarified something about feasibility, operating burden, or the gap between an interesting idea and a workable one.
Winter 2018
Project Upcycle
A fundraising concept for Enactus built around California CRV collection economics. The plan was financially plausible, but the operational burden was too high for a student organization to run cleanly.
What carried forward: Feasible models still fail when labor intensity and execution overhead are underestimated.
Open artifactFall 2018
Solutions for beruby
An early case competition proposing a subscription-style retention strategy for a cashback rewards company. The business model shift was ambitious, but it also required a stronger change in user behavior than the market probably supported.
What carried forward: Strategy ideas need to be judged not just on elegance, but on how much user and market behavior they ask you to rewrite.
Open slides2018 - 2020
Multiple QR-Code Verification Method
A security concept for multi-step QR-based verification intended for lower-cost authentication flows. It never moved past the grant-seeking stage, but the idea came from a real concern about identity in weaker transaction environments.
What carried forward: Security ideas become more interesting when they can widen access rather than only raise technical sophistication.