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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: medium;">[[File:Vincent Arena Cliffs.jpg|thumb|Vincent Arena Cliffs.jpg]]Vincent Arena is a lifelong learner, design thinker, and food fanatic. He's the type of guy who carries around a moleskin everywhere, has a 3D printer in his closet, and grows aquaponic basil above his fish tank on his desk. Originally from Long Island, Vincent has spent the last three years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, including one semester abroad in Denmark (DTU). He dual majors in Mechanical Engineering and Design Innovation & Society, a.k.a. socially and environmentally sustainable "inventing". As a freshman in a class called''How To Change The World ''(HTCTW), Vincent was inspired by his professor Burt Swersey to use his creativity, passion for technology, and drive for helping others to pursue a career as an entrepreneur. With a love for teaching and empowering others, Vincent became a teaching assistant for the HTCTW as well as an Engineering Ambassador. Both roles have required coming up with creative and educational teaching material while simultaneously encouraging other students to discover their inner creativity and combine it with engineering to follow their dreams. Since then, Vincent's goal has been to make the world a better place in the short term through his day-to-day interactions, and in the long term through his companies.</span>

<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: medium;">Vincent is a highly energetic and adaptable individual who is always eager to jump on new ideas. He has pursued many side<span style="font-projects which align with his interests, such as a cradle-to-cradle 3D printer filamentfamily:arial, hydroponic furniturehelvetica, a moodsans-based social app, and meditation/inspiration virtual reality experiences. With a weekserif;">''s notice at the end of his summer internship creating virtual reality experiences for Wayfair, Vincent was presented with the opportunity to pitch, as a last-minute replacement, for his friend's startup, Sanguine Diagnostics. He was so excited with the potential of the idea that he placed first out of all 12 pitches and since then has joined the team Serving as a co-founder and completed three startup accelerators this the past semesterUIF Since: NSF I-Site, RPI's Change the World Challenge, and the Albany Medical BACC Academy. Vincent plans on pursuing Sanguine Diagnostics, a low-cost, paper diagnostics delivery platform, full time in May ''Spring 2017.</span></span>

<span style="marginfont-size: 0pxmedium; padding"><span style="font-family: 0pxarial,helvetica,sans-serif; line">'''School:''' Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -height</span></span><span style="font-family: 1.4arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">In his free time, Vincent loves to draw and write in his sketchbook, travel to new cities or places in nature, have long talks or jam sessions with friends, Mechanical Engineering & Design Innovation and prototype his ideas. Since a kid, his sacred place has always been the beach. He loves listening to the sound of the waves, body-boarding, as well as entering sand-sculpting competitions.Society</span>

<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; linefont-heightsize: 1.4medium; "><span style="font-sizefamily: mediumarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Vincent would love to know about your passions '''What he does now: '''Co-founder of Tazzetto Coffee - coffee brand and talkcafe franchise serving authentic Italian coffee, collaboratefood, or share ideas in whatever way possibleand edible cups. He can be reached via email: (vincent.l.arena@gmail.com) or on Facebook:&nbsp;[https:<//www.facebook.com/VincentArena1995 https://www.facebook.com/VincentArena1995].span></span>

<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''What that means:''' learning all aspects of building a new business from scratch while simultaneously trying to steer the food industry to being more honest and sustainable.</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Contact Vincent about:''' fostering a culture of innovation, curriculum/courses on creativity and entrepreneurship, feedback on product ideas or startup pitches, bouncing around ideas and problem solving, creative workshops and activities, existential crises (call me), collaboration on talks or podcasts, wanting to talk anything related to food, sustainability, or green technology.&#x5Bnbsp;</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Email: '''vincent.l.arena@gmail.com</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Phone: '''516-286-0002</span></span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: medium;">Vincent Arena is a lifelong learner, design thinker, and food fanatic. Originally from Long Island, Vincent studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and one semester abroad in Denmark (DTU). He dual majored in Mechanical Engineering and Design Innovation & Society which gave him hands on experience in technological entreprenurship, product design, and social innovation/inventing. Vincent developed creativity-based curriculum for HS students as an Engineering Ambassador and as a TA for an RPI course called&nbsp;''How To Change The World ''(HTCTW). He is now helping to write a book called ''Don't Do Nonsense''&nbsp;which will summarize the philosophies of his professor Burt Swersey, who inspired Vincent to use his creativity, passion for technology, and drive for helping others to pursue a career as an entrepreneur.&nbsp;</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: medium;">Vincent is a highly energetic and adaptable individual who is always eager to jump on new ideas and initiatives. He has pursued many side-projects which align with his interests, such as a cradle-to-cradle 3D printer filament, hydroponic furniture, a mood-based social app, and meditation/inspiration virtual reality experiences. Vincent is the co-founder of Sanguine Diagnostics, a low-cost, paper diagnostics startup that won 3rd place in the NY State Business Plan competition and went through many accelerators including the&#x5Bnbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;Category">NSF I-Site</span><span style="font-size: Student Contributorsmedium;">.&#x5Dnbsp;He&#x5Dnbsp;loves to share what he's learned and give feedback to other socially-minded startups.</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: medium;">In his free time, Vincent loves to draw and write in his sketchbook, travel to new cities or places in nature, have long talks or jam sessions with friends, and prototype his ideas. Since a kid, his sacred place has always been the beach. He loves listening to the sound of the waves, surfing, as well as entering sand-sculpting competitions.</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: medium;">Vincent would love to know about your passions and talk, collaborate, or share ideas in whatever way possible.</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: medium;">[[File:VincentArenaDontDoNonsenseIgnite.jpg|thumb|center]]</span> bit.ly/DontDoNonsense Contributions: [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Student Priorities]] [[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]][[Category:Rensselaer_Polytechnic_Institute_(2017_Spring_cohort)]][[Category:Student Contributors]]{{CatTree|Rensselaer_Polytechnic_Institute}}