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<span style="font-size:medium;">Carnegie Mellon offers many opportunities for students to explore innovation and entrepreneurship on campus:</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Project Olympus:</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">Olympus PROBE projects (PRoblem-Oriented Business Explorations) are the centerpiece of the enterprise. Here teams of faculty and students from across campus explore the commercial potential of their research and ideas. Guidance is provided at every stage by the Olympus in-house Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and a network of economic development partners.</span></span>
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<span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; font-size: medium;">McGinnis Venture Competition</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">The McGinnis Venture Competition brings together Carnegie Mellon's best and brightest student entrepreneurs to compete for $60k in investments. All participants receive crucial interaction with alumni entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, an opportunity to raise capital and valuable feedback about ventures.</span></span>
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<span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; font-size: medium;">Undergraduate Innovation Scholars</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;"></span><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">This program fosters innovation and entrepreneurship and seeks to increase the number of successful start-up companies initiated by or involving Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students.&nbsp;</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">Scholars complete a two-year program integrating</span>