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Tough Questions at MassChallenge
Tengo
December 17, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Last Monday was our first pitch in front of a real jury. No need to say that the questions were very different that the ones we are [...]

From Opportunity space to ideation
CARING
December 16, 2018

Hey Everyone! This week got off a flying start in Masschallenge, where we were glad to receive more critics about our work. This week has been for us some kind [...]

Our first pitching experience at MassChallenge
Hapstick
December 16, 2018

[embed]http://vimeo.com/306663844[/embed]Hey readers ! Everything is going very fast in here and so many stuffs has happened since last time we wrote. Our project is going through and we are very [...]

No news, good news?
AKANE
December 16, 2018

Dear readers, It has been a long time since our last blog post!  Everything is going well for the ZhuZhu Team. After a great brainstorming session last weekend, we decided [...]

Finding and developing ideas
NOX
December 15, 2018

Hi everyone, Following the ideation workshop we had last week, we are still in the process of finding projects, so we did a lot of research on our theme and [...]

How might we….define our spaces ??
Heptabox
December 12, 2018

Dear readers, Last week we defined our opportunity space: the health system in Switzerland. During our third meeting the team discussed about the interview that each member conducted with several [...]

In and out
ecal, EPFL, Event, Flowlin, FLUID, Institution, Snooze, T-Ψ, ToyGether, UNIL, VUKOVI (ВУКОВИ), Zhu Zhu
December 10, 2018

A very busy evening for CHIC participants. We kicked-off with pitches from the 4 CHIC 2018-2019 teams in front of a jury of experts from industry (Peter Boehni, Daniel Brandenburger, [...]

Going back to the roots of food
Tengo
December 10, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Another intensive week has passed. Monday we had the ideation evening, where through quantitative brainstorming we came out with interesting ideas. We spent also some time refining [...]

Getting ready for MASSCHALLENGE!
CARING
December 9, 2018

Hi everyone, After a creative ideation workshop, we had our weekly meeting on Tuesday. Urbain welcomed us to the premises of his association, The Forum, on the EPFL Campus (this [...]

Milestone 2: Ready, Steady, Go !
NOX
December 8, 2018

  Hello everyone! This week started with a new workshop to launch us on the new Milestone Objectives: Ideation! Now that we identified our opportunity space, and work to refine [...]

Second meeting done: we have our opportunity space!
Heptabox
December 3, 2018

Hello everyone! Today we had our second team meeting to define our opportunity space. We choose to focus our attention to the health system in Switzerland. In order to define our human, [...]

MS1 Bites the Dust
Tengo
December 2, 2018

[embed]https://vimeo.com/304046196[/embed] Dear CHIC Community, This week was very important for us since we had our first big step as a team: Milestone 1. It was quite an intense (read, insane) [...]

Milestone 1 is done!
CARING
December 2, 2018

Hi everybody! The first Milestone lies now behind us. Between the kick-off weekend in October and last Friday’s milestone, TΨ was able to further explore the opportunity space “Stress”. By [...]

This is only the beginning: meet the friteam!
Heptabox
December 2, 2018

Dear readers, This is our first post for this big community! Let's start with the presentation of our FRITEAM (name might be change) composed by: -Stefania Sergi HEG - Business [...]

Milestone 1 – Done !
NOX
December 2, 2018

The first Milestone presentation is done! Last Wednesday, our team had to present our opportunity space with our human, physical and data space. We worked a lot all the weekend [...]

Time’s up for MS1!
Hapstick
December 2, 2018

Hello to everyone! The last few weeks have been tiring but fun to say the least! We explored various physical spaces such as nightclubs, hospitals, train stations, grocery stores etc. Also, [...]

Decision Decisions!
Tengo
November 25, 2018

Dear CHIC Community, as others have already said, time is ticking. Next week is already time to present our opportunity space and decisions have to be made. During the last [...]

Time is ticking…
Hapstick
November 25, 2018

Dear CHIC community, since the article of last week, a lot happened. We started by going back to town last Saturday to interview more people and we captured a broad [...]

Time to sprint
NOX
November 24, 2018

Last Research Sprint! Hi everyone! These last days have been intense, REALLY intense. As you know, next week we have our first milestone and have to present our opportunity space. [...]

Shooting Day for The Zhu-Zhu Team !
AKANE
November 24, 2018

Dear readers, Last Wednesday evening we had our first photoshoot with the team, which was a first for some of the team members.  While being challenging to pose in front [...]

Jagui’s contribution to the Opportunity Space
CARING
November 22, 2018

Dear CHIC members, This week was pretty fruitful for TΨ: We gathered various insights to refine our opportunity space, interviewing different kind of people in their own environment. Working as [...]

Pitching, metting and green olive !
AKANE
November 19, 2018

Dear readers, All the team is really busy, but we finally find a moment to write you about our progress! Last week stand the pitching workshop which was a great [...]

Divergent Tacos
Tengo
November 19, 2018

It's friday night, it's VUKOVI day, it's cold, and Ethan welcomes us at home. Up in his tower, the young man has got all the ingredients to treat us like [...]

Pitching workshop and brainstorming session
CARING
November 18, 2018

Hi everyone! On Monday, we had a pitching workshop with Benedict Stalder (CTI coach) in our usual BC building at EPFL. This evening was really helpful to prepare ourselves for [...]

Week 3 + Workshop 3
NOX
November 16, 2018

Another week, another workshop! This week has started with a new workshop to prepare us to pitch our opportunity space at the end of the month. The difficulty in these [...]

SUCCESful pitch on the way
Hapstick
November 13, 2018

  Hello everyone, welcome on this week's blog post. Do you know what SUCCES stands for? We didn't either before having attended this monday's (November 12th) pitching workshop. As Benedict [...]

Brainstorming and time mana…what?
AKANE
November 12, 2018

Dear readers, Last Friday night we had our first meeting with the team. 📝💡 To better understand everyone's motivations, we all introduced our personal project portfolio and interests. After self-introductions, [...]

Workshop #2 / 1st team meeting
CARING
November 9, 2018

[embed]https://vimeo.com/299935574[/embed] Hi everyone! Last weekend we had a workshop at EPFL that was about team working and we focused on the difficulties of collaborating with different persons on the same [...]

Workshop 2+
NOX
November 9, 2018

Hi Everyone! It is only the beginning of our CHIC journey and we already have a lot to manage and to do! Last weekend, we had a workshop on team-building, [...]

First meeting with mentors
Hapstick
November 8, 2018

Hello everyone, On Monday this week, after our brainstorming session reflecting on the information gathered by each member of the team, we held our first meeting with our two mentors: [...]

Entering the matrix
AKANE
November 6, 2018

My dear readers, What a pleasure to write you about last CHIC friday night and last CHIC saturday. For our second kick-off meeting, we spent this Saturday in our, now [...]

Looking for the Holy Opportunity Spacez
Tengo
November 4, 2018

Hi guys!   Conflict. Coordination. Communication.   These are only a few of the keywords of an intensive workshop on the topic of teamwork. We set up the basis of [...]

The first week after kickoff!
Hapstick
November 4, 2018

  Hi everyone! This Saturday (3rd November) we all gathered to attend the team working workshop which was really productive and was a fun way for all of us to [...]

Another busy Saturday
ecal, EPFL, HEAD, HEG-GE, HEPIA, UNIL, Workshop
November 3, 2018

Only a handful of days have gone by since the CHIC 2018-2019 kick-off. This time, teams gathered for one day to explore teamwork. On the agenda, leadership, decision-making, conflict management [...]

A wonderful first week
CARING
November 3, 2018

Hi everybody! This week, on Thursday, we could develop the team spirit needed for a successful (we’re confident) CHIC-project! We went out, mentors included, to try an initial Chinese culinary [...]

Brainstorming 1+
NOX
October 31, 2018

A few days after the kick-off weekend of CHIC, and having the time to reflect all the new information we received, we met to organize our work for the coming [...]

Energy footprints
Tengo
October 29, 2018

  Our opportunity space is  energy footprints which results of a combination of several different spaces. Data spaces. Pretending to be the target of your data collect can help you to gather [...]

Team Presentation
AKANE
October 29, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Kick-off weekend is done! After 2 days of meetings new people and brainstorming, we now have a team : Zhu Zhu. Zhū Zhú （zhū which means “pig”, [...]

CHIC 2018-2019 on its way!
ecal, EPFL, HEAD, HEG-GE, T-Ψ, UNIL, Zhu Zhu, вукови
October 28, 2018

Exhausted from a very intensive week-end but very glad to have launched a new edition of CHIC full of promises and with very motivated participants. While the kick-off gave us [...]