Envision 2026: Envisioning a Change in Transportation Access and Mobility Infrastructure
Fifteen Geneva students participated in the second annual Envision program at the B-HIVE in downtown Beaver Falls on Saturday, January 31. Envision, an annual event hosted by a team from the Student Development department and funded through the ECI's Institutional Impact Grant, challenges third-year students to consider how they might develop solutions toward local problems through their fields of study. Cross-disciplinary student groups are guided by community members and college faculty in understanding a multifaceted issue before they develop and present a proposal that addresses the issue. The event takes place at the Beaver Valley Hub for Innovation, Venture, and Entrepreneurship, more commonly known as the B-HIVE. This year’s prompt was “Transportation Access and Mobility Infrastructure.” Students heard from several community experts on the subject before taking time to consider and plan. Divided into teams of three, each student group gave a “Shark Tank-style" presentation to a panel of judges, who considered the proposals made by each team and chose a winner at the end of the night.
This year, five teams considered how transportation access might be addressed in Beaver County. The purpose of the event, as Sarah Faulkner, the assistant director for Geneva’s Center for Calling & Career, shared at the close of the night, is to remind students that “you don’t have to wait until graduation to impact your community.” This was certainly a message that the fifteen participants took to heart. A diversity of majors and class years participated, with students representing majors such as engineering, social services, English, communication design, and computer science. Each team offered their own unique spin of improving transportation access in Beaver County, suggesting ideas such as repaving sidewalks with stamped concrete and installing audible traffic signals to help disabled pedestrians, retrofitting public buses with more storage space, and painting crosswalks to beautify Beaver Falls for pedestrians.
“There’s strong competition,” junior Odin Kulp commented as he watched the presentations. But Odin and others also shared that there was “low pressure,” and the event progressed in a spirit of good sportsmanship.
As the last two presentations finished, with laughter and joking between the judges and the contestants, the audience settled in for a brief wait, chatting about the presentations. After only a few minutes, the judges emerged to announce the winning team. This year’s winners were engineering major Peter Samuelsen, finance major Winter Wilson, and computer science major Henry Trevisan. Their leading proposal was to artistically paint several crosswalks throughout Beaver Falls to beautify the city and make the crosswalks more visible for drivers.
With the Envision Project returning next year, event organizers hope to see yet another group of dedicated students at the B-HIVE, ready to seek ways to serve our Beaver County neighbors while learning.
By Luke MacKenzie ‘26
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