CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 29, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SafeStart, a sobriety testing system that uses infrared sensors to check blood alcohol levels, helps prevent drunk drivers from getting on the road. Bulkr, an online platform, allows customers to buy high-quality organic food in bulk directly from local farms with little to no markup. Dropwise, which provides tools to monitor water usage, helps customers save thousands of gallons of water per year and hundreds of dollars on their annual bills.
These are just a few of the companies created by high school students—yes, high school students—through MIT Launch, which offers two month-long summer entrepreneurship program that became part of the MIT entrepreneurial ecosystem two years ago. Since its debut in 2012 —the program, formerly known as Launch, officially joined the MIT entrepreneurial ecosystem last year—MIT Launch has helped hundreds of teens from all over the world to start and grow a total of 70 companies. MIT Launch pitch their business ideas Friday, August 5, 2016 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship at theMIT Sloan School of Management. "Our goal is to cultivate the next generation of entrepreneurs by giving high school students both robust entrepreneurship training and a real opportunity to try their hands at starting a business," says Laurie Stach, the founder and director of MIT Launch. Read the rest of this article here
0 Comments
Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
Leave a Reply. |
Proudly powered by Weebly