Advocate · Builder · Founder

Bryce Wagner

I solve problems where technology, business and public policy meet, from federal foster care law to AI that screens our food supply.

Helped pass federal law Find and Protect Foster Youth Act Presented to the FDA Commissioner QSAR AI food program, with the HHS Secretary Ecovision in schools nationwide After-School All-Stars chapters WHO Ministerial Conference Presented a youth-led plan in Bogotá

01 · Advocacy

Fighting
for the kids
nobody
counted

It started at age 10, when my sister and I found foster kids living in tents near our home. Since then, the work has moved from city halls to Capitol Hill to the World Health Organization.

Founding member

See Us Now

A student-led group that fights for kids in foster care.

We work in pitch teams. We research, build decks and meet officials together.

Helped pass the Find and Protect Foster Youth Act, which requires states to report, search for and conduct recovery interviews for missing foster children. Before it, 48 of 50 states were not reporting them.
Met with every committee member, on both sides of the aisle, and won the support of the Speaker of the House and the Senate Leader.
United the foster care and anti-trafficking communities. Mayors issued proclamations and lit their cities blue.
Presented a plan to engage youth at the WHO Ministerial Conference on ending violence against children in Bogotá, Colombia.
Met with HHS to modernize the Human Trafficking Hotline. I am building an app for it with the Safe House Project.
Spoke at the IB Global Conference, training teachers from 4,000 schools, and at After-School All-Stars Leadership University.

02 · Technology

Building
tools that
help people

I see a problem, teach myself what I need, and keep building until it works. Each project here started with a real person who needed help.

Founder · Ecovision LLC

Ecovision

A nature-based virtual reality therapy. I built it when COVID left my mother bedridden and depressed, to bring nature to her bedside. Then I turned it into a company so it could help others.

Custom-filmed nature environments, layered with music, puzzles, breathing exercises and guided meditation.

The product

How Ecovision works

Scent, filmed nature and the studies underway.

Custom-filmed nature environments, layered with music, puzzles, breathing exercises and guided meditation.
A patent-pending scent device that engages more of the senses.
Built with three partners who bring different skills.

Research and rollout

Indiana University study

Atria Research Institute study

Comparing Ecovision's impact to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

After-School All-Stars

Now in chapters across the country, for teen anxiety and depression.

Flags potential toxicity in minutes, for free.

Creator · Patent pending

QSAR AI Food Program

Thousands of chemicals have entered the U.S. food supply through the GRAS ("Generally Recognized as Safe") loophole, often without FDA review. Evaluating one chemical traditionally takes a year and millions of dollars.

The model

How it flags risk

QSAR, the Ames database and who has seen it.

Uses quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) modeling and the Ames mutagenicity database to compare food chemicals' molecular structure to known carcinogens.
Flags potential toxicity in minutes, for free.
Now expanding to detect endocrine disruptors.
Presented to the FDA Commissioner and the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Recognition

U.S. Air Force award

Disaster relief

Big Hug

Built for people after a disaster.

Cybersecurity

Decoy Cybersecurity

See the attack before it's real.

More builds

AI policy programs

For USC's Schwarzenegger Institute.

Courses and labs at the Institute. Students work on the rules around machine learning, not only the models.

Charitybuzz iOS app

The iOS app, from scratch.

I built the iOS app, and a way for people watching an auction to start bidding.

Human Trafficking Hotline app

With the Safe House Project.

An app for the hotline. Same work as See Us Now.

03 · Business & Entrepreneurship

Turning
ideas into
ventures

I start things, then I stay with them. Speakers, internships, a diploma and field work, built with other students.

Founder & President

Entrepreneurship Business Investment Team

A speaker series on how to start a company.

People who have built companies come in. Students hear how a business actually gets started and how it grows.

Launched an incubator and a pitch competition.
Co-founded a Youth Advisory Council that pairs students with business leaders.
Created internships for students.
Developed the school's entrepreneurship diploma, completed alongside the IB Diploma, and a digital curriculum open to every student.

Youth Advisory Council · Field trips · Pitch events

Founder · Ecovision LLC

Ecovision, the company

A bedside project that became a company.

I had to learn the market, write the decks and talk to the people who say yes. I brought in three partners.

Milestones

Patent pending

Scent device

National partner

After-School All-Stars