How can 90-seconds take a student from eating instant noodles to lobster dinners? Check out the Fall Rainforest Pitch Competition to find out! The University of New Mexico’s Innovation Academy and STC.UNM are partnering again to offer this fantastic opportunity for students to pitch business or product ideas to win their share of the $5,000 prize pool. Students should submit their initial 90-second video pitch at Rainforest Student Pitch Competition by …Read More
Innovation Academy Program for Innovative, Creative, and Entrepreneurial Students Has Another Successful Year
The Innovation Academy (IA), UNM’s entrepreneurial program for students, has just published its 2018-2019 Annual Impact Report. The program is located in the Lobo Rainforest Building and partners with STC on the NSF-funded UNM Lobo Rainforest I-Corps program and the EDA-funded NM Rainforest University Center program. The center program offers entrepreneurial training to students at all UNM campuses and is available to the public as well. To read about all …Read More
Spring I-Corps Entrepreneurial Training Program
The NSF-funded I-Corps (Innovation Corps) program at the Lobo Rainforest Building is a partnership between STC and the Innovation Academy. The spring cohort of 14 commercialization teams in the NSF-funded I-Corps program completed the program’s 10-week entrepreneurial training, which started in February. Teams this semester include one from the UNM Gallup branch campus and one from the UNM Taos branch campus. Each team consists of a UNM faculty member, student, …Read More
Spring Rainforest Student Pitch Competition Kicks Off Ninth Event
STC and the UNM Innovation Academy kicked off their ninth Rainforest Student Pitch Competition on the evening of March 25 at Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. This popular community event recognizes student entrepreneurs in the state. The pitch competition was an opportunity for aspiring student entrepreneurs to present their innovative ideas for products, services and technologies to local entrepreneurs, investors, and business professionals. The competition is open to currently enrolled …Read More
Fall Rainforest Student Pitch Competition Draws Large Number of Participants
STC and the UNM Innovation Academy co-hosted their eighth Rainforest Student Pitch Competition on the evening of November 5 at Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. This popular community event recognizes student entrepreneurs in the state. The pitch competition was an opportunity for aspiring student entrepreneurs to present their innovative ideas for products, services and technologies to local entrepreneurs, investors, and business professionals. The competition is open to currently enrolled students …Read More
Pitch competition delivers creative solutions
UNM Innovation Academy students bring diverse product ideas The Rainforest Pitch Competition is more competitive than ever before. Students from a variety of majors entered the competition, with ideas ranging from a local kombucha company to an app that helps students choose courses and professors. “The Rainforest Pitch competition gets better and better each semester,” Innovation Academy’s program manager, Tiffini Porter said. “We love seeing what ideas our students come …Read More
STC.UNM Receives EDA University Center Grant
STC.UNM, the University of New Mexico’s technology-transfer and economic-development organization, announced today that it has received a University Center Grant from the federal Economic Development Administration (EDA) to support high-growth entrepreneurs and provide training and technical assistance at all UNM campuses. The grants are awarded through an open and competitive process in five-year cycles across all six economic development regions as designated by the EDA. UNM will join 58 other …Read More
UNM Student Entrepreneur Happy to Be at the Lobo Rainforest Building
One of the busiest student entrepreneurs at UNM lives, learns, and works at the Lobo Rainforest Building. Already the founder and CEO of two startup companies—Pencil-In and Shutter Bombs—you can often find Kyle Guin working in his office or chatting with other entrepreneurs at STC’s business incubator, the Cecchi VentureLab. Or, he may be on his way down the hallway to a class at the Innovation Academy, then over to …Read More
UNM Student Inventor Inspired to Solve a Major Environmental Problem
STC.UNM and the UNM Innovation Academy recently hosted their seventh student pitch competition on April 16. The competition, The Rainforest Student Pitch Competition, is an opportunity for aspiring student entrepreneurs to present their innovative ideas for products, services and technologies to local entrepreneurs, investors, and business professionals. The competition is open to currently enrolled students from any university in the state of New Mexico. Mostafa Peysokhan, a UNM engineering student, …Read More
Latest Rainforest Pitch Competition a Success
STC and the UNM Innovation Academy co-hosted their seventh Rainforest Student Pitch Competition on the evening of April 16 at Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. This popular community event recognizes student entrepreneurs in the state. The pitch competition was an opportunity for aspiring student entrepreneurs to present their innovative ideas for products, services and technologies to local entrepreneurs, investors, and business professionals. The competition is open to currently enrolled students …Read More