What started out as a school challenge to find a way to distribute low-cost ventilators for newborns to a developing country became personal for a couple when their young son needed one.
Brigham Young University graduates Erica and Kindall Palmer recently received a grant through the Ballard Center's Y-Prize Newborn Challenge for their plan to place the ventilators in Cambodia.
The Y-Prize Challenge, which is sponsored by Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business, selects different causes each year to help those in poverty in developing countries and then encourages students to develop a plan of how to get low-cost technology where it's needed.