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🚀 Demo Day is coming!

​After weeks of workshops, founder stories, ideation, prototyping, and pitching preparation, participants of Builder’s Challenge will finally present their ideas on Demo Day 🔥

​📅 When: 29.05 at 15:00
📍 Where: 2nd Floor, Taidon Portat, Staircase stage, EduCity

​🏆 We’re so proud to see what our participants have learned in such a short time, and to see them having the courage to stand up and pitch their ideas.

​Please always remember: you don’t have to be perfect to pitch — it’s the process of trying again and again that helps you become more confident about your future direction.

​🔥 We’re excited to introduce our amazing judges panel:

​✨ Aschwin van der Woude
✨ Angeli Kumari-Ilieva
✨ Tapani Talvitie

​A huge thank you to our judges for joining us and giving insightful feedback to our participants, and also for giving attention and supporting deep tech and startup ideas in Turku 🙌

🤩 A double thank you to Boost Turku and .garage!

​🔥 We can’t wait to see what our participants will pitch!

​Based on the number of participants pitching, the length of the program could be shorter

Register now: https://luma.com/b8omy1tm

🚀 Have you ever struggled to explain your ideas clearly, so that people can actually understand and resonate with them?

For Session 6 of Builder’s Challenge, we’re excited to have Aschwin van der Woude teaching participants how to pitch
deep tech ideas effectively 🔥

✨ With Aschwin’s rich experience in pitching and communication, you will learn how to structure and communicate your ideas for Demo Day, and, of course, for
future opportunities as well.

And as always — the sessions and workshops are open for
everyone 🙌
📅 When: 25.05 at 15:00 TODAY!
📍 Where: Room EDU_3004 Joosef, EduCity

Register now: https://luma.com/1ntg62nh

We don’t just talk about innovation — we also hope you can learn by exploring real technologies hands-on.

🔥We’re excited to have Heidi Piili (née Malmberg) and Anum Rasheed from the Mechanical Engineering at the University of Turku and Women in 3D Printing-Turku Chapter, joining us for Session 5.

📅 When: On 21.05 (TODAY)
📍Where: QTT Lab, Turku Design Studio (University of Turku, Faculty of Technology), Lemminkäisenkatu 28, 20520 Turku, Finland

✨ At 15:15, Anum will speak about 3D printing for prototyping — an important step in turning ideas into physical products.
✨ Then at 16:00, we will head to the UTU QTT Lab to explore more in practice with Heidi.

🙌 Whether you come from a technical background or not, take this great opportunity to explore how ideas can take shape in the real world!

🔥 Follow .garage for more info

👉 There are limited spots for this session. Register for this 3D Printing and Lab Visit session: https://luma.com/wsofmkxr

🚀 Interested in building “tangible” tech? Then you can’t miss this session! Which is about hardware strategy and IP protection!

🔥 Patrik Hollos IS COMING TO TURKU to share his insights and first-hand experience on Hardware Startups and IP! 🔥

📅 When: On 20.05
✨ Who: Patrik Hollos, CEO of litegrav and PhD in Neurobiology, is an expert in turning complex research into commercial success.

Register from .garage

Join tinkers.garage for Builder’s Challenge 3rd session!

Have great ideas but struggling to make your early prototype? Vibe Coding is a powerful and low-threshold solution, and this is THE SESSION FOR YOU! 🚀

HEIDI SUUTARI IS COMING TO TURKU to lead a workshop on Vibe Coding as a prototyping technique for deeptech on 18.5! She is a leading Vibe Coding practitioner and educator who empowers even non-technical founders to build successful products. 🔥

This is an amazing opportunity to learn how to make rapid prototyping even without a technical background. ✨

Register Now! Link in bio...

Link: https://forms.gle/VRXWxLCGCbow6Vnm7
Suomeksi alla:
Haluamme tavoittaa kaikki opiskelijat Turussa, joilla ei ole kesätyötä. Työllistymistilanne on tällä hetkellä haastava lähes kaikilla aloilla. Jopa ne opiskelijat ovat jääneet ilman kesätöitä, joilla taitoa ja motivaatiota riittää. Me halutaan auttaa näitä opiskelijoita tienaamaan kesän aikana omilla taidoillaan. Siksi perustimme OmaHomma-kesäohjelman.

OmaHomma on maksuton (Turun yliopiston rahoittama) ohjelma opiskelijoille, joita kiinnostaa yrittäjyys, freelancer-työ, side hustlet tai oman idean kehittäminen. Ohjelmassa saat mentorointia, työpajoja, viikoittaiset check-init sekä yhteisön vertaistueksi koko kesän ajaksi. Mukaan voi hakea idean kanssa tai ilman. Haku päättyy 20.5.

Lisäksi järjestämme Turku-salissa 19.5 klo 15 tapahtuman, jossa voit kuulla lisää vaihtoehdoista, joilla saada toimeentulo kesän aikana järjestettyä.

Jaa tätä postausta eteenpäin, jotta voisimme tavoittaa kaikki opiskelijat Turussa ilman kesätyötä. 🙌🏻

.garage kicked things off today with founder’s stories at Astra🩵🚀⚡️

If you are an ambitious builder in Turku and thinking how to fund your business, we have a Poc-grant applications open in our bio. You can get maximum of 5k euros per team/ idea will be given to🤝💰

We wish you good luck!💫

Want to learn how to translate research into real business opportunities? This is the session for you!

MIMIR IS COMING TO TURKU to deliver an R2B workshop during the Builder’s Challenge program on 15.5.

Mimir is one of the biggest R2B educators in Finland helping turn new scientific breakthroughs into practical, impactful ventures.

🧠 Learn from real research use cases
🚀 See how deeptech becomes business
⏱️ Program commitment: 2-5 hours per week

Don’t miss this opportunity!
Apply now! .garage

🚀 Introducing The Builders challenge first Workshop Speakers! 🚀

• Henrik Terävä from Ai2Ai
• Ines Picone from Lun
• Sameera Gamage from SPTechLabs
• Ville Lunden from Metaktik

We are extremely excited to have these professionals share their Founder Stories! 🔥

The first workshop is on 13.5. To immerse ourselves in deeptech, inspiration is necessary, and that is exactly what this session will be about! 🤩

Limited spots are available,
Apply now!