He immediately saw an opportunity to develop the Buddy Bandz idea further.ĭucay oversees the new Xperiences courses offered since the fall by DU’s Project X-ITE, a cross-disciplinary program to launch and nurture startup-focused entrepreneurs. The adjunct professor was walking through the Madden Challenge that night, on the lookout for projects with potential. “We feel like it’s really important to continue, even after the project is over.” “There are ways you can prevent ,” Huff said in December, as she and her team showed off their product at the quarterly Madden Challenge competition. Huff and her classmates, fellow first-year students Anna Perleberg and Em Profeta, developed a prototype as an assignment in the fall. But now she’s on the cusp of marketing a product that could dramatically impact public safety on college campuses across the country.īuddy Bandz are devices, much the shape and size of key fobs, that give users a way to combat sexual assault by connecting with Campus Safety or other emergency contacts at the push of a button. These days, Huff is still a first-year student. Just a few months ago, Emily Huff was simply a first-year student in the Daniels of College of Business, enrolled in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a hands-on introductory course aimed at preparing potential entrepreneurs for today’s fast-moving marketplace. Consumer Insights and Business Innovation Center (CiBiC)Īn idea from an introductory business course could be the next tool for student safety.Center for Analytics and Innovation with Data (CAID).
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