2024-2025 Academic Year Accomplishments
Explored the “WHAT IS THE WHY” question during a workshop led by Tom Morgan. We boiled our purpose down to four items:
- Create an opportunity for students to explore entrepreneurship;
- Produce a sustainable and healthy nutrition bar with seaweed that can enhance Maine-based aquaculture;
- Make seaweed a daily food and more broadly acceptable;
- Innovate for a healthier planet
In addition, we produced several hundred SeaMade Bars, tested new ingredients (blueberries and pecans), completed a Vision/Traction Organizer, completed the background work for new UNE branding for the SeaMade bar wrapper, and shared SeaMade bars and our research results with the UNE Board of Trustees (March 6, 2025) and at the UNE Innovation Showcase (April 28, 2025).
Finally, UNE student Abby Tasca was hired as a UNE Summer Sustainability Fellow working on background research for a more sustainable SeaMade wrapper, development of UNE branded wrapper graphics, and temperature monitoring in the Decary Teaching Kitchen.
Abby Tasca presentation at the UNE Sustainability Showcase, August 8, 2025.