2021 Club Entrepreneurship Projects

OHS is well known for its exceptional range of unique clubs. Throughout the 2020–21 school year, many of these clubs completed impressive entrepreneurship projects. Read below to learn more.

Competitive Entrepreneurship Club Projects

The Competitive Entrepreneurship Club allows OHS students to invent their own startup companies and compete in online as well as in-person competitions. The members of this club divided into multiple teams to complete intriguing projects over the course of the school year.

Helicume

Throughout the past school year, Kierra Wang and Tesla Pratt created Helicume, a product which “aims to stop the massive loss of helium from Earth’s atmosphere through recycling the liquid helium used in MRI machines.” Kierra and Tesla recognized that the helium lost annually is a major issue; they explained that at the rate that helium is currently being lost, “we are set to lose basically all of the helium that we have in our atmosphere.” Helicume aims to solve this problem by “collecting the excess liquid helium from quench vents in MRI rooms.” Helicume would collect the helium in bottles, which would allow hospitals to reuse the helium. This product would allow for the recycling of helium, thus reducing the quantity of lost helium.

Hydro-Volt Model RS

Ferrris Haukom, Emmie Panigrahi, Aaron Wang, and Tanisha Gupta set out to create the “ultimate affordable water filtration device,” which they ultimately named the Hydro-Volt Model RS. The Hydro-Volt Model RS “includes a hydroelectric generator that can power the desalinator using water currents, making the device essentially self-sustaining, and a unique reverse osmosis (RO) filtration system which combines components of a traditional RO system with a polypropylene membrane and extra layers of sediment-removal filters for durability.” While the RO process is usually both “expensive and energy consuming,” the Model RS cheapens this process while does not compromise the quality of water. As the contamination of water is one of the primary causes of death in “underprivileged and rural countries,” the Hydro-Volt Model RS is an important product that could aid many individuals across the globe.

Pryrogerm

Joshua Jung, Hannah Kim, Anjana Goli, and Kavin Krishna invented the Pryrogerm, a mask sterilization device. Bonding over their hopes to “bring meaningful, positive changes to people’s lives through advancements in technology… [they] worked together to find a way to overcome the global issue of the COVID-19 pandemic.” They accomplished their mission by creating a heat-sanitizing container that can be used to eliminate viruses on face masks. Recognizing the importance of eliminating viruses as quickly as possible, Pryrogerm “uses dry heat to denature potential viruses on face masks to allow for their reuse within a half-hour or less.”

Girls Can Code: Technovation Team 2 RecipeThyme

Girls Can Code members Sophie Mansoor, Ilana Nguyen, Suhavi Kaur, Rachel Hu, and Hanna Treehan competed in the 2021 Technovation competition, a competition that combines both coding and business. Together they established RecipeThyme, an app aimed to “address the issue of food poverty by providing people with affordable and personalized solutions to cooking at home.” They recognized that oftentimes apps targeted at meal plans don’t acknowledge that there are “a variety of factors that prohibit an individual’s ability to cook nutritious meals.” These factors include, but are not limited to, an individual's location, how accessible stores or food banks are, their income, etc. This app is aimed towards people who are “interested in cooking and need an app to help them organize ingredients and find recipes based on their budgets and circumstances.” The team members’ goal is to have their app published on the app store, and to ultimately “become America’s leading recipe app, with users from all 50 states.”