2015
Efflorescence International
Founder, CEO
Efflorescence International is a premier social hybrid venture that creates synergistic opportunities between communities locally and internationally to alleviate poverty.
Website: http://einternational.org
2015
Edge
Design consultant
A mobile phone app which increases safety by making it easy to report location to loved ones and to emergency personnel.
2012
Students Pursuing Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (SPICE) program
Developer
This program is part of the Success 101 class taken by CWHS sophomore students during the 2012-13 academic semester. This program promotes creativity, design, and social impact through a variety of in-class activities and real-world problem solving.
Website: https://spice4cwhs.wordpress.com/
2010
Javier Fernandez-Han Excellence in Community Scholarship
Founder
A scholarship to recognize exceptional students living in Mumbai India. Current and past scholars live in slums and volunteer at schools which provide education to children living in a “Tribal” community. This community lacks political voice and leverage and lives in dire poverty surrounded by wild animals in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
2010
Conrad Foundation’s “Spirit of Innovation” Award contest
Inventor, sole patent-holder
First place winner for designing the ACWa System, an invention for creating affordable clean drinking water for developing countries. ACWa condenses clean water from humid air using only wind, solar and geothermal energy. The patent-pending ACWa was also selected to receive commercialization support from the Conrad Foundation through its Portal program. Article here. (2010)A patent for ACWa was filed in 2011. Javier Fernandez-Han was granted the patent in 2013:
2010
Innovation Foundry – My India Empowered
Founder, Project manager
A collaboration of youth between Mumbai, India and Houston, Texas to rebuild a one-room schoolhouse damaged by monsoons.
2010
Inventors Without Borders, Inc
Founder
Incorporated as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation in 2009We serve at the intersection of Youth Character, Capability, and Spirit and their relationship with and responsibility to their Community. We are a team of adults and youths representing a diversity of cultures, ages, experiences, and viewpoints. We are based in Texas, USA but our work crosses borders. We were originally conceived in 2005 by Javier Fernandez-Han when he was 11 years old.