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Asian American Intervarsity - University of Washington

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Founded	2009 (2009)
Type	Religious/Spiritual
Focus	Undergraduate students
Area served	University of Washington, Seattle campus
Members	120+ (2012-13)
Website	students.washington.edu/aaiv/

Asian American Intervarsity Christian Fellowship - University of Washington Chapter (AAIV) is a non-denominational, Christian, student-led ministry organization at the University of Washington. AAIV is a chapter of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship ministry. Founded in 2009, the chapter split off from the Multiethnic Intervarsity Fellowship to start a ethnic-specific chapter for Asian American students. AAIV is a registered student organization at the University of Washington.

Background

AAIV is an affilate chapter of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a nationwide ministry organization. As of the 2011-2012 school year, InverVarsity Christian Fellowship consists of 1014 campus staff members worked with over 37,000 students and faculty in 893 chapters on 576 campuses in the United States.

We at Arctic Zero saw the increasing number of children developing food allergies, and the increasing waistlines of Americans and wondered if there was a solution

• We saw these problems manifest in our own lives with family members diagnosed with diabetes and having other weight related health problems
• So we decided to develop a product that diabetics could enjoy and was still nutritionally sound -- what better medium than ice cream!

In 2002, we developed Carbawhey, a protein-based soft serve ice cream that was diabetic friendly

• As we sold Carbawhey at many yogurt shops throughout Southern California, we received requests from consumers for a similar product that could be taken home and eaten
• As a result, in 2006, we started working on a pre-packaged pint and Arctic Zero was born

When developing Arctic Zero, we decided to address other health issues and produce a product that could be consumed by all

• As opposed to Carbawhey, we decided to develop an all natural (Splenda free) product that was also gluten-free
• We wanted it to be low calorie, low carb, fat free, and lactose intolerant friendly, all of which took a number of years to develop

In 2009, Arctic Zero began to be sold through natural food, retail grocery and direct-to-consumer channels

In Spring 2011, Arctic Zero released an 85 calorie premium chocolate dipped ice cream bar in 4 flavors

Arctic Zero is currently sold online through Amazon as well as across all 50 states through 8000+ grocery stores including Whole Foods, Sprouts/Henrys, Sunflower Markets, Bristol Farms, Publix, Safeway, Kroger, HEB, Hy-Vee, Giant/Martins and Winn-Dixie and expects to be in an additional 3,000 stores within the next several months