Innovation

I was walking across campus one afternoon, sweat sticking to my backpack straps, when I noticed something strange. Two buildings, same sun, same time of day, but one felt like…

I was walking past a house in Calgary with half its shingles stacked in the driveway and a crew yelling up and down ladders, and I caught myself thinking: this…

I was walking past a small strip mall near a campus in Springfield one afternoon and saw a roofing crew using drones and tablets, with two students in campus hoodies…

I was standing in a campus basement one night, staring at a leaking water heater, and it hit me: this boring metal tank is quietly running half the buildings we…

I had this late night thought while scrolling through my phone: if almost everything a student startup does lives on a screen, what story could that screen tell if someone…

I remember staring at a dying plant on my dorm windowsill at 1 a.m. and thinking, "This is exactly what my startup feels like right now." Hungry, underfed, and pretending…

I had this odd thought the other night staring at a half-finished to-do list: student projects and house remodels are basically the same kind of chaos. Both start with big…

I was walking across campus one night, past a half-finished makerspace, and realized something odd: the student startup scene was growing, but so were the construction fences. It hit me…

I had this odd late night thought walking past an off-campus construction site: why do freshly painted buildings make me feel like starting something new? It sounds random, but it…

I had this odd late night thought once while walking past a half-finished campus makerspace: why do students spend months perfecting a prototype, then trust construction plans to a random…