Opportunities

Google's "Little Box Challenge" is a competition worldwide (with some exceptions) to stimulate the creation of small power inverters.  Inverters change direct current to alternating current, and smaller inverters could help bring electricity to many people who don’t have it.  Google offers a prize fund of US$1 million to the winning team.  Additionally, Google will make grants of US$20 thousand to US$40 thousand on this topic to full-time faculty at degree-granting universities. The deadline to register for the Little Box Challenge is 30 September 2014, which is also the application deadline for grants.