About

History

PlasTech Ventures started in August of 2018 at the University of Philipines Diliman as a potential approach to bettering local waste management systems. Two partnerships quickly formed between the Global Social Impact Fellowship at Lehigh University, and a local Filipino community based out of Barangay Malabon. The relationship with the Malabon community was headed by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.  Machine design, fabrication, and product design were jointly begun by UPD’s College of Engineering and College of Fine Arts, as well as Lehigh University’s College of Engineering.

A group of students through UPD’s Humanitarian Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Design institute spent the academic year gathering insights from relevant stakeholders, brainstormed product ideas, and talked to potential customers. In January, a cohort of students from Lehigh University began developing an ecosystem structure while testing machine capabilities. Come summer 2019 (June-July), five Lehigh undergraduates with three faculty members came to the Philippines through the Lehigh Mountaintop Program to work with the UPD team to begin accelerating the project into an actual venture.

 

 

Team

 

 

 

Ian Jasper Agulo Advisor, Dept of Physics at University of the Philippines, Baguio		Melissa May Munoz-Boado Advisor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Saint Louis University		Rouenne Camille De Castro Advisor, University of the Cordilleras		Isagani A. Paddit Advisor, University of Baguio
Elmer S Soriano Advisor, City Futures Lab, University of  the Philippines, Diliman				Mafe Pastorpide Advisor, Forest Sustainability Lab, Civika Asian Development Academy

Daniya Mariz Libiran Analyst		Francis Abog Analyst		Ric Alindayu Analyst		Devin Yeatter Analyst
Rob Smith Analyst		Abbie Gail Villanueva Analyst		Adrian Suarez Analyst		Beth Cortez Analyst
Julian Tanaka Analyst		Andy Fugh Analyst		Alexis Glenn Espina Analyst		Kelly Mulvaney Analyst
Susan Cheng Analyst		Laura Marsiglio Analyst