2020 Spring Into Innovation
Spring Into Innovation on Campus
Welcome back to campus! We're excited about the full calendar of innovation programs from both Brandeis Innovation and organizations across the University, including the MakerLab and Hiatt Career Center.
This coming Tuesday, get into the swing of innovation with our annual Fireside Chat with Startup Grind, the world's largest organization for startups, in partnership with Google. You'll learn the art of pitching your idea from venture capitalist Dan Rossignol. In February, join us for the 6th annual SPARKTank pitch competition. Interested in social innovation? DeisHacks is back the following weekend with more impactful projects, led by the MakerLab. Looking for a job, or have students who are job-hunting? Check out the Biotech, Health & Science Career Fair from the Hiatt Career Center.
We have a wide range of events this month for innovators of all types. Whether you're looking for work, to lead your own project, or simply to make a difference, check out these opportunities to engage with innovation this spring.
The Art of Pitching with StartupGrind
in Partnership with Google for Startups
Tues, January 21, 6PM - 8PM
Mandel Center for the Humanities
What is pitching? What do we do and don't we do right...or wrong? Come find out and learn all about pitching from Dan Rossignol, who has a proven track record with 10+ years of business transformation experience turning around, restructuring, and exponentially growing multiple technology businesses.
Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting more than 2,000,000 entrepreneurs in over 600 chapters. They nurture startup ecosystems in 125+ countries through events, media, and partnerships with organizations like Google for Startups. StartupGrind returns to Brandeis in January with their monthly event featuring successful founders, innovators, educators and investors who share lessons learned on the road to building great companies.
This event is free to members of the Brandeis community using code "BrandeisFree" during online registration.
Apply to SPROUT and I-Corps
Apply by Friday, January 31 at 11:59 PM
The Brandeis Innovation SPROUT and I-Corps programs offer support for bench and non-bench research. Both programs offer funding in different amounts, mentorship, training and help in further exploring the commercial potential of inventions. SPROUT supports bench research only with grants up to $20,000, while I-Corps emphasizes training for both bench and non-bench researchers in developing the commercial potential of discoveries, with small grants and extensive training programs. You can apply to one or both programs.
SPARKTank
Sun, February 2, 8:30 AM - 3 PM
Heller School for Social Policy
Watch startup teams from around Brandeis compete for up to $50,000 in prizes in our 6th annual SPARKTank competition. Teams will present their ideas for innovations in high tech, social enterprise, business-to-business, and consumer products to a group of judges, and the winners will receive funding, mentorship, and support as they strive to make a difference in the world through entrepreneurship.
Brandeis’ SPARKTank is one of the only university startup competitions in which students, faculty, and staff compete as equals. Past winners have gone on to win Boston and national startup competitions, including being named a semifinalists at MassChallenge, taking first place at the MIT Enterprise Forum/HUBWeek Beantown Throwdown, and winning SheStarts’ ShePitches competition. You just might see the next groundbreaking startup to come out of Brandeis at SPARKTank.
2020 Biotech, Health & Science Career Fair
Wednesday, February 5, 11 AM – 2 PM
The Brandeis Biotech, Health & Science Career Fair is the University's largest industry event of the year. This is an opportunity for students to meet leading employers that want to hire Brandeis students for full-time jobs and internships.
DeisHacks
Saturday, February 8, 2020, 9:00 AM –
Sunday, February 9, 2020, 3:00 PM
Hosted by the Brandeis MakerLab partnered with the Brandeis International Business School, this year's 'Deis Hacks is a 24-hour design competition targeted at real world solutions. Instead of having a single hackathon challenge, this event's theme will fuse design thinking, digital fabrication & social impact to work on real world solutions for non-profit companies. Each hackathon team will chose a design challenge from Waltham's diverse non-profit community they find compelling to focus on.
Coming in March: Mass Innovation Nights
Wednesday, March 11, 6 PM - 8 PM
Join us for the third annual Mass Innovation Nights at Brandeis on (or this year, almost on) Pi Day. Celebrate Brandeis-born startups with the Boston innovation community, enjoy pizza, and vote for your favorite startups to win prizes.
Registration opens soon.