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Thomas is a an undergraduate student at Florida Institute of Technology studying pursuing a degree in Business Administration. He is a driven and dedicated student who has taken on multiple extracuricular activities to help students at his university start businesses. Having grown up in a military family, and with most of his life spent in Europe, Thomas has a unique persepective he brings to the table.
Because Thomas has spent the last 3 years developing the [http://sbi.fit.edu/ Momentum Student Business Incubator] at Florida Institute of his high school experience at Technology, and is currently running workshops on Lean Launch and the Business Model Canvas. Over the Center for Advanced Technologieslast 3 years, he Thomas has aspired to search for elegant solutions to complex problems. Chris has experience putting the many moving pieces together at Melbourne based internet of things startup company helped multiple student businesses launch, including his own, [http://www.getdroplitluxoconsulting.com/ Droplit IncLuxo Consulting].
As a volunteer at the newly founded non-profit, [https://www.projects4learning.org/ Project Based Learning]Continuing his recent progress, Chris helps teach a variety of skills Thomas hopes to people of varying ages. This includes creating classes that involve build a hands-comprehensive and strong innovation ecosystem on and interactive teaching style. These classes usually focus around creating softwarehis campus, graphic design and presentation, prototyping techniques, and other topics of similar nature. He also helps see more students and enthusiasts design and build projects at the [https://www.spacecoastfablab.org/ Space Coast Fab Lab.] He has several hobbies, launch businesses in the most notable being lutherie: designing and building stringed instruments. He builds electric guitars with a focus on ergonomics and long term player health. He is a musician at heart and plays extended range guitar, as well as upright bass in orchestra and jazz bandnear future.
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