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= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

Texas A&M University proudly hosts an inclusive and enabling infrastructure for entrepreneurship and innovation efforts led by students through various on-campus programs:&nbsp;<u>Startup Aggieland</u>,&nbsp;<u>Aggies in Business</u>,&nbsp;and the <u>Engineering Innovation Center</u> are all manifestations of such an effort and allow students to exercise their business-savvy, creativity, and product development skills.

*[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/3DS/ 3 Day Startup]&nbsp;- a weekend event where students collaborate to form businesses and demo a prototype to a panel of judges, including investors

*[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/lunch-learn/ Lunch and Learn]&nbsp;- lunch speaker events

[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/accelerator <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.&nbsp; They lack laboratories, equipment, and funding.&nbsp;

[http://www.txaib.org/images/txaib/pages/aib_consulting.html <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.&nbsp; The student employees are overseen by leadership.

<u>[https://engineering.tamu.edu/aggiesinvent Aggies Invent]&nbsp;</u>is a monthly,&nbsp;48 hour&nbsp;intensive design experience offered at the Engineering Innovation Center (EIC), a 20,000 square foot rapid prototyping lab. The format of the experience is to engage 60 or more students in multidiscipline/multi-level teams in&nbsp;hands on&nbsp;projects that will push their innovation, creativity, and communication skills. Each event will have a specific theme and will be designed in collaboration with industry and faculty. At the final presentations, Aggies Invent teams will compete for cash awards. 1st place - $1,000, 2nd place - $750, and 3rd place - $500 per team. The end goal is to provide students the opportunity to acquire skills essential to becoming successful innovation leaders and support them in founding startup companies.

[http://tamuhack.com/ TAMUHack]&nbsp;is the official&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon hackathon]&nbsp;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&nbsp;a world&nbsp;that&nbsp;is&nbsp;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&nbsp;manner,&nbsp;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&nbsp;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development agile development], that is one of the hallmarks of modernly relevant powerhouses in&nbsp;tech&nbsp;such as Square, Uber, Facebook, AirBnB, and others.

= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

[[Texas A&M University Student Priorities: Part II|Texas A & M University Student Priorities Part II]]

[[Graham Leslie]]