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Who knew civil engineering could take you from the treasured collections of a world-famous museum to finding the best way to repair cracked concrete? Jessica Rosewitz’s experience is exciting, inspiring, and transformative and led her to earn her BS, MS, and work toward her PhD at WPI. She’s even passing along her passion for engineering to the next generation of leaders as a regular volunteer at Touch Tomorrow at WPI.

WPI Students had a blast taking mini-courses in UX Testing, welding, design thinking, high-performance teamwork, laser cutting, pottery, Agile games, glassblowing and many more at LaunchPad's second annual WinterSession. Thank you to all the students, faculty and alumni that came to teach, learn and help revive this WPI tradition. Special thanks to Technocopia and the Worcester Center for Crafts for hosting students for the arts and maker courses!

Check out the new i2i Challenge spin-off, Industry Challenges Series! This month we are featuring an interactive workshop on outsource manufacturing and vertical integration. Co-hosting the event, we have Kalow Technologies, a VT based electromechanical contract manufacturing company.

Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/FX3PKK7YZNz1MQd83

A perfect example of celebrating failure- delivering incremental value for years to bring you pints of ice cream you can eat alone in one sitting!

Previous LaunchPad Pitch Competition winner, GeoStage, is happy to announce that their location-based take on the social game assassin is now publicly available for both iOS and Android. Check out the game at https://geostage.io. Good luck Brian Keeley-DeBonis!

Home Create a game, invite your friends, and battle it out to see who among you is the most powerful, resourceful, and resilient.

Looking for a cool event in Worcester tonight? Head down to the Worcester Clean Tech Incubator on Portland Street to connect with sustainability enthusiasts of Worcester! There will be food from Talyta's Cafe, beer from Wormtown Brewery, and live music!

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_9BHQS8dffXBZqDPCdfsuIXzIDcbu6SCYVNJyiUT8J-iLYg/viewform?c=0&w=1

Green Drinks @ WCTI Event Timing: April 27, 2017 Event Address: WCTI - 44 Portland Street 4th floor, Worcester MA 01608 There will be a greeter at the door from 6:50-7:15pm, after that dial 017 on the call box. Parking info:http://www.wcti.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/WCTI-Parking-for-Day-Visits.pdf Contact us at: i...

Congratulations to Brian Keeley-DeBonis for winning the LaunchPad Pitch Competition with his company, GeoStage!

You can check out GeoStage's first augmented reality game, aTag, in action at http://geostage.io/. Support Brian by participating in an aTag game on campus and by coming to The Venture Forum 5-Minute Pitch Competition tonight (CC Odeum 5-8pm) where he will be recognized as a winner of a seat in the StartUp Worcester Incubator program.

Come check out The Venture Forum 5-Minute Pitch Competition this Tuesday from 5:30-8pm in the Campus Center Odeum. Students can pre-register for free or at the door for $5.

http://www.theventureforum.org/event-2320414

The Venture Forum - 5 Minute Pitch This is The Venture Forum’s 11th Annual 5-Minute Pitch Contest. It has been incredibly powerful in getting startups the outlet that they need to advance their business to the next level.

Congratulations to the 6 finalists that were selected to move forward to the Pitch Competition! Come check them out this Thursday at 5:30pm at the Foisie School of Business (50 Prescott St).

The 6 finalists are as follows:
VitaCream - Conrad Ruiz
Manta - Anh Tran
Linguistic - Tyler Nickerson
Go Tag - Brian Keeley-DeBonis
The Hum - David Powers Bo Pierce Tim O'Neil
Telapush - Erin Esco Devon Bray

Got an idea for a business but don't know how to form it into a business model? Come learn about the simple tool used by millions of people in companies of all sizes, as well as exciting opportunities in the field of Cleantech! Taught by WPI alum and Director of the Worcester CleanTech Incubator, Joe Bush! RSVP: tiny.cc/wpi-pitch

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Pitch Competition Workshop 1 is off to a great start!

We are excited to announce the first company to apply to the Pitch Competition!

Telapush enables event organizers to showcase social media interactions through custom light shows. Telapush founders include Erin Esco​, CS 2017 and Devon Bray​, ECE 2017. Wow, nice work!!

If you have an idea and are interested in applying, get more information here: http://wpilaunchpad.strikingly.com/blog/wpi-student-pitch-competition