Sticky Innovation Reflection
During the fall of 2018 I participated in the honors seminar Sticky Innovation. During this class I learned a great deal about the real threats facing bees and how humans can change these trends. I started off the class reading Buzz by Thor Hanson, which was an extremely fascinating and informative book that focused on native bee species (not the honey bee) and how they’ve evolved over time. After acquiring knowledge about bees, I explored two projects with a small team. One of the projects focused on designing an “Ideal bee” in which we could make theoretical changes to a honey bee to make it more adaptable. We made a medical bee that would not leave the hive and had it 3D printed in the makers space at the Innovation Hub. Our final project included a conceptualized business concept for a pollination company that would minimize stress to its bees and therefore over time have a lucrative pollinating honey bee population.
I was incredibly grateful for the opportunity to take this class as it connected to various other ideas I have encountered on my sustainability journey over the last five years at UC and RBI. I had known about colony collapse disorder before this class but I had not had the opportunity to delve deep into bees and what solutions are most accessible. Moving forward I am taking an independent study in the spring of 2019 that will continue with the themes of the class and adapt them to the Bio Design Challenge.
Below is a link to my final project's website. The project was a conceptualized business that optimized the minimization of stress to bees, in thoughts that pollinating honey bee populations would become exceedingly rare in the future and that pollination prices per acre will increase dramatically.
https://rent-a-hive.weebly.com/
During the fall of 2018 I participated in the honors seminar Sticky Innovation. During this class I learned a great deal about the real threats facing bees and how humans can change these trends. I started off the class reading Buzz by Thor Hanson, which was an extremely fascinating and informative book that focused on native bee species (not the honey bee) and how they’ve evolved over time. After acquiring knowledge about bees, I explored two projects with a small team. One of the projects focused on designing an “Ideal bee” in which we could make theoretical changes to a honey bee to make it more adaptable. We made a medical bee that would not leave the hive and had it 3D printed in the makers space at the Innovation Hub. Our final project included a conceptualized business concept for a pollination company that would minimize stress to its bees and therefore over time have a lucrative pollinating honey bee population.
I was incredibly grateful for the opportunity to take this class as it connected to various other ideas I have encountered on my sustainability journey over the last five years at UC and RBI. I had known about colony collapse disorder before this class but I had not had the opportunity to delve deep into bees and what solutions are most accessible. Moving forward I am taking an independent study in the spring of 2019 that will continue with the themes of the class and adapt them to the Bio Design Challenge.
Below is a link to my final project's website. The project was a conceptualized business that optimized the minimization of stress to bees, in thoughts that pollinating honey bee populations would become exceedingly rare in the future and that pollination prices per acre will increase dramatically.
https://rent-a-hive.weebly.com/
