June 25, 2008
By Kris Berggren, National Catholic Reporter, NCRonline.org
Cover Story Published: May 30, 2008
You might call University of Dayton senior Lori Hanna an accidental entrepreneur. The mechanical engineering major recently won the $10,000 top award in the University of Dayton’s business plan competition for her project to build portable solar-powered medical equipment sterilizers.
Her project has blossomed into a nonprofit technology assistance company, Salud del Sol, whose first business, producing a sun-powered medical sterilization device, could be a tremendous boon to health-care providers in remote rural communities.
“I’ve never worked with anything business-related before,” said Hanna. “It has gotten so much bigger than I thought it would be, but it’s so exciting.”
Pictured above: Lori Hanna roasts coffee beans with her host sister, Vanessa, in Sabana Grande, Nicaragua.
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