Innovation

Sometimes the most unexpected startup ideas do not come from hackathons or business classes. They show up in small teaching studios, while a kid is trying to play a clean…

I remember staring at a glowing campus power bill during a late night student government meeting and thinking, "Why are we not putting solar on every flat roof in Colorado…

I was walking across a campus in Cape Girardeau one evening, and it hit me that the most active place was not the student center, but a patch of carefully…

Some student startups begin with a hackathon, a business plan template, or a random late night idea in a dorm. Others start with something much simpler: staring at a freshly…

It hit me one night while I was walking past the engineering building on campus and saw a group of students arguing over a 3D printed joint for a tiny…

I was staring at my roommate's pile of unwashed dishes one night and had a horrible thought: "What if this person was in charge of our startup's finances?" That was…

I remember walking into a student-run makerspace one afternoon and thinking the same thing you probably have: why do all these new startup labs have such shiny, polished floors? It…

I was halfway through a group project slide deck when it hit me: if this turned into a real startup, who would actually own it? Me, my team, or the…

I remember sitting in a 9 pm "Entrepreneurship 101" lecture, staring at a slide that said "Incubator vs Accelerator" and thinking: this feels like a trick question. Are they just…

Last semester I was sitting in a 9 am lecture, half awake, when I realized something weird: everyone around me had a "million-dollar idea," but none of us had actual…