Success Stories
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Ready to start building your business? Applications for the Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank Fall 2023 FastTrack Accelerator program are open with a deadline set for midnight, September 4, 2023. FastTrack Accelerator is a 10-week program that helps early-stage startups better refine their target…
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Venture Connection, an investor-to-entrepreneur matchmaking event, is now accepting applications. The event will take place during the Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference Oct. 16-17 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Venture Connection pairs entrepreneurs and investors based on industry and capital needs, among other key criteria. Entrepreneurs…
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The Penn State Small Business Development Center (SBDC) recently held a Creative Entrepreneur Roundtable at the Pennsylvania College for Technology to highlight resources and programs that assist creative entrepreneurs, which include those undertaking ventures in music, art, and photography. The Penn State SBDC supports business owners who currently run or…
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A team of researchers in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science aims to enable healthcare and extended reality — which encompasses virtual, augmented and mixed reality — with their smart sensing ring, OmniRing. The ring uses both inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors, which can capture…
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UNIVERSITY PARK - State College community member Aquito Young, like a lot of parents, would tuck his nine-year-old son into bed each night. However, when Aquito would go check up on him hours later, he would notice the covers had fallen off his son’s legs and feet. For Aquito, this…
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Penn State’s I-Corps Short Course is accepting applications for its June cohort. The no-cost program helps researchers test a startup idea through customer discovery and lean startup methodology. The cohort will begin on June 9 and runs through June 23. Apply for the short course by June 2. The NSF…
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Münire Bozdemir has loved storytelling and learning since she was little. However, she grew up in a small town in Turkey at a time when it was not easy to find books. She was born during the aftermath of the 1980 Turkish coup d’etat - a time when books were…
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Eight Penn State student startups have been selected into the 2023 Invent Penn State Summer Founders Program. The Summer Founders Program provides teams with at least one Penn State student founder a $15,000 grant to work on their startup, social good, or nonprofit idea over the summer at Happy Valley…
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UNIVERSITY PARK - As a soil science graduate student teaching at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Zoelie Rivera-Ocasio found herself searching for ways to make studying soil more interesting in outreach activities for undergraduate students. In one of these outreach activities, she made soil-based paints for the students. The activity…
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