Embrace a Future with Robots
Robots aren’t as you see them in movies. This technologist is disrupting how we see robotics in everyday spaces, and how robotics is changing industries.
Can We Save Our Reefs
Ecology begins at the grassroots – or in the bottom of the ocean. Our reefs, marshes, and waterways are slowly degrading due to warming oceans and rising tides. Learn how you can take action.
What’s in Your Water
Pharmaceuticals aren’t just in our medicine cabinets, but are in our tap water. This student invented prototype filters to combat contaminated water and is educating others on the importance of proper disposal.
College Is for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Disability is not a life sentence, but a cause for celebration. This advocate has programs in place to give students with intellectual difficulties tools and resources to living, working, and thriving as equals in society.
Drive Innovation through Cognitive Diversity
Powerful problem solving is rooted in diverse thinking. Discover how this technologist embraces a spirit of celebration and inspires his team to use their unique creativity, logic, and reasoning to do better together.
Global Connections Begin at the Dinner Table
Breaking down barriers starts with breaking bread together. Tina Singleton traveled to the hostile corners of the world to find what all humans desire: to belong and to be fed.
Emotive Tools to Empower Human Connection
Does reach equal engagement? This clinical psychologist isn’t convinced. Learn how emotion science empowers human connection through new emotive tools.
Let’s Give Face to Mental Illness
To break the stigma, we’ve got to shake up the silence. Emily’s brave quest is to bring invisible illnesses into the light by giving herself and others permission to see the strength in their struggle.
Vickie Waller
By using leading edge technology as a constructive business generation and marketing tool, this CEO of SBG Technologies, a local B2B tech business, is out to reposition small and family businesses to capture the benefits of today’s e-marketplace.
Emily Torchiana
A former College of Charleston student, Emily Torchiana has emerged from the shadows of cyberbullying and suicide attempts to turn life’s darkest moments into moments of meaning for others who need a mental health hero.