<span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8-week summer program for student startups with $10,000 in seed funding to elevate their idea to the next level.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">E-corps is a program consisting of a series of workshops based on the Lean LaunchPad approach using the Business Model Canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder. This is a team-based training program, (at least two members from each organization or research project) , where participants work collaboratively to test their hypothesis related to the commercialization potential of their product. Workshops embrace both Design Thinking and Lean LaunchPad approaches to Customer Discovery and Customer Development using a hands-on method for participant teams.</span></span>
<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">is a post-secondary program that facilitates the development, growth and success of student-run business ventures. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular, individualized, and experiential learning. The program culminates in the development of a personal portfolio that illustrates a student’s entrepreneurial capabilities. Upon successful completion of ESP, students are accredited and receive a certificate indicating venture readiness.</span>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.5334px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hackamarine is a student led hackathon focused on marine and oceanography which allows allows students to work on their ideas and bring them to life. The event has much suport from the oceanography department and the faculty of management which got a lot of students involved and interacting together to work on their ideas.</span></font>
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