Team PumperNickel Tracy Pizzo MBA 2 Non-profit experience Worked in developing countries Can start a fire without matches (yeah, it’s cool) Jim Culkar MBA 2 Engineer of all kinds (ME, EE, ME again) Went to Myanmar PPT Genius (he’s a consultant...) Alissa Burkholder ME ME Undergrad Went to Myanmar Knows her way around power tools Can do some mean hip-hop Mark Bianco ME ME Undergrad too Loves to build, and he can build anything He’s a Reality TV Star – with a fan club

Our Point of View Landed small-plot farmers need a cheaper pump so they can get a better pump. Landed small-plot farmers need a cheaper pump so they can get a better pump. Team PumperNickel: Team PumperNickel: It will take some bread, It will take some bread, but not much… but not much…

It’s What the Farmers Need  When we mentioned there was a team looking at a $5 pump - boy did they light up! They all said a lower cost pump would be fantastic  They have seen first hand how cash strapped families are and how much they want our pumps but just can't afford the $13

Meet our User

Where We’ve Been  Water Displacement  Rope and “Washer”  “Starter” Diaphragm pump  Plastic Study  Economic Research

The Financials

Our Future Explorations  Is a bamboo piston viable? What about a bamboo diaphragm?  Can we build a one piston pump?  Honing in on blow molding and injection molding  “Degrading” test of rope and washer

Vulnerability – potential pitfalls  Rope and Washer not high enough quality to last even one season – how long will it take for the rope/cloth to degrade?  There isn’t enough bamboo, and it isn’t strong enough to be the pump body  Blow-molding or injection molding is just too expensive  We can’t lift the water enough to make any of our solutions viable for most farmers  We’re missing major “social input” – what do the farmers want this to look/feel/act like? Is cheap sufficient?