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*[http://tamuhack.com/ TAMUHack] - official hackathon of the university, where 700 students across the world get together on our campus to build amazing products quickly and intelligently. TAMUHack brings relevant industrial partners such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Rackspace to connect with our students and expose them to a world that is incessantly expanding.
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*[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/ideas-challenge/ Ideas Challenge] - idea competition where 40 finalist ideas are chosen, and the top 3 ideas receive a cash prize (1st - $3,000, 2nd - $2,000, 3rd - $1000)
*[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/3DS/ 3 Day Startup] - a weekend event where students collaborate to form businesses and demo a prototype to a panel of judges, including investors
[[File:TAMU LC 3ds 1.jpg|thumb|right|TAMU LC 3ds 1.jpg]][[File:TAMU LC 3ds 2.jpg|thumb|right|TAMU LC 3ds 2.jpg]]
*[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/lunch-learn/ Lunch and Learn] - lunch speaker events
<u>Startup Aggieland</u> is a brand new student incubator designed to provide students who have launch-ready concepts with the opportunity to receive co-working spaces, mentors, and a supportive community. They lack laboratories, equipment, and funding. [[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/accelerator/ http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/accelerator/]]
[[File:TAMU LC startupaggieland 1.jpg|thumb|right|TAMU LC startupaggieland 1.jpg]][[File:TAMU LC startupaggieland 2.jpg|thumb|right|TAMU LC startupaggieland 2.jpg]]
<u>Aggies in Business (AiB)</u> is another brand new program that provides business consulting for local businesses, and enables students to be employed by the university to perform this consulting work. The student employees are overseen by leadership. [[http://www.txaib.org/images/txaib/pages/aib_consulting.html http://www.txaib.org/images/txaib/pages/aib_consulting.html]]
Texas A&M also has several avenues, such as the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship Newsletter, Texas A&M Regional Engineering Conference, and Engineering Development (hosted by Student Engineers' Council), to inform students of and market innovation and entrepreneurial activities and opportunities.
[http://tamuhack.com/ TAMUHack] is the official [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon hackathon] of the university, where 700 students across the world get together on our campus to build amazing products quickly and intelligently. TAMUHack brings relevant industrial partners such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Rackspace to connect with our students and helps them to meet the needs of a world that is incessantly expanding. This event particularly allows the students to exercise their sense of entrepreneurship and innovation by rapidly developing solutions to modern problems in an efficient manner, and also helps our students to learn to work with a diverse set of team members. Additionally, this event exposes our students to the rapid construction/deployment framework, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development agile development], that is one of the hallmarks of modernly relevant powerhouses in tech such as Square, Uber, Facebook, AirBnB, and others.
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =
