Mexico City, July 5, 2023.- With the aim of creating a venture related to the fashion industry, where in addition to generating income, it should generate positive social and eco-sustainable impact; the academic student group Hult Prizefrom the SMART Center of the Universidad Panamericanaheld the OnCampus Event on February 15 of this year.
OnCampus Event 2023
This year's challenge entitled Redesigning Fashionthree teams participated and dazzled the judges with their business ideas:
Modequity
Paola Sánchez Alcántara, Andrea Macías Espíndola, Ximena Rivera del Río Hernández, Servando Fernández Flores and Sandra Mariana Urbina López from the School of Business Administration.
Her project aimed to make more use of formal dresses, which are worn a limited number of times, to make them more accessible to those who cannot afford to buy their own or are looking for alternatives.
With this initiative, they propose to reduce the environmental impact of producing such garments and generate a positive economic impact on those who wear them.
Changeitt
Montserrat Huitrón Gómez, Andrea López Nieto, Andrea de los Santos González and Victoria Jaimes Fabila, students of the School of Business Administration.
It is a startup that seeks to reduce the pollution generated by consumers' poor online purchasing decisions, through the implementation of technologies associated with artificial intelligence and web 3.0.
Retazzo
Formed by Pablo Marentes Mirafuentes, Hanna Magaly Larios Moscoso, Marco Samuel López Benítez, Ximena Reyes Moreno, most of them from the School of Engineering.
This was the winning team, which presented a project that saves the waste of leather that is generated in industrial quantities when manufacturing car seats, armchairs, etc., with this material.
Through waste, the team proposes to generate raw material for the production of new products, such as furniture, fashion accessories, leather bags and wallets.
Next step
The winner of this competition, Retazzo, went directly to the regionals, where they will face universities from all over the world. The students had the opportunity to choose the venue where they will participate, which was Rio de Janeiro.
Modequity decided to enter the regionals through Second Chance and chose to participate in Monterrey.
Known as the "Nobel Prize for Students," the Hult Prize is an annual competition that gathers ideas from university students around the world and then challenges them to solve pressing social problems.
