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COVID-19 Maker Challenge

We can do this!

COVID-19 Maker Challenge

We can do this!

About


Challenge America teamed up with the Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem to join the fight against COVID-19. We put on five Maker Challenges focused on addressing the immediate needs of different subsets of the essential workforce - first responders, custodial services, nursing home staff, caregivers, and disaster relief workers. Teams of subject matter experts worked directly with these end users to create innovative products designed to help them cope with the challenges of the pandemic.

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Our Story


Over the last two years, Challenge America and VHA Innovation Ecosystem have partnered to develop innovative solutions to the unmet needs of injured veterans and their families. Through Challenge America: Makers For Veterans (CAMVETS), we have worked with engineers, designers, software programmers, and other subject matter experts to create seventeen working prototype solutions in the last year alone, four of which have earned provisional patents. 


At the onset of COVID-19, our always-visionary partner, Danielle Krakora, proposed we adapt our program to meet the needs of essential workers on the frontlines of the pandemic. It has been humbling to see so many organizations, companies, and individuals rally to the cause and we are confident this effort will meet or exceed the results of our CAMVETS program. 

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Impact


50


Projects

420


Volunteers

150


Organization Represented

Our Solutions


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Your support will directly assist the maker teams in their efforts to refine these designs to commercialize their products, making it possible to share them with the essential workers who so desperately need them. Please give today!

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