Women Entrepreneurs (W.E.) Cornell is worked up to introduce the latest cohort of feminine STEM students working to commercialize their analysis and improvements.
Created in 2019 to help female-identifying STEM college students as they bring about their innovations to market, the W.E. Cornell program helps cohort members overcome the challenges of beginning and scaling a technology-based enterprise. Combining entrepreneurship curriculum with management growth, individuals depart W.E. Cornell ready to take the subsequent steps of their startup journey.
This system operates yearly on a 2-semester cycle, with Section 1 open to any entrepreneurially-minded and female-identifying pupil. Through the fall semester, Section 1 individuals attend workshops to be taught extra about entrepreneurship, management, and commercialization and community with potential mentors from the W.E. Cornell Advisory Board.
Then, a choose group of individuals is chosen to maneuver to Section 2 within the spring. All through this part, the W.E. Cornell cohort takes half in an NSF I-Corps Regional Course, the place they conduct buyer discovery and hone their market match and buyer base. They proceed to interact with mentors, take part in workshops, and observe enterprise pitches. This system culminates in a Demo Day and celebration the place they current their work to the Advisory Board and neighborhood members.
“We’re the way forward for entrepreneurship,” mentioned Allison Chhay ’24. “I hope to learn to navigate the robust house of women-led entrepreneurship, develop my thought, and achieve help from my friends and mentors.”
This 12 months’s cohort additionally comes with the launch of the ClimateTech Observe, a call-to-action for feminine entrepreneurs to make use of their progressive work to sort out native, nationwide, and world local weather challenges. Rebecca McCabe, Ph.D. ’26 and Monica Theibault, M.S. ’23 are the inaugural individuals and shall be receiving extra mentorship, teaching, and sources within the local weather enviornment.
“W.E. Cornell is so necessary as a result of it’s open to girls in STEM with no enterprise or entrepreneurship background,” mentioned McCabe. “I’m excited to achieve publicity to the entrepreneurial mind-set.”
Meet the 14 entrepreneurs taking part within the Spring 2022 cohort, and get a glimpse into their enterprise plans:
- Allison Chhay, BS ’24 is modernizing mochi, a standard Japanese candy, by including a wholesome twist;
- Tiffany Chui, BS ’22 is creating a handy, easy-to-eat meals product that retains shoppers full for 2-3 hours;
- Jordan Cohen, MPS ’22 is creating an activewear model created from recycled plastic;
- Armita Jamshidi, BS ’25 is offering girls with snacks meant to set off hormones as a sustainable choice to alleviate PMS signs;
- Amanda Kaufmann, MBA ’23 is creating an app that incentives shoppers to get educated on the environmental impacts of quick trend;
- Keying Lao, BS ’22 is opening a sustainable cafe that serves prospects wholesome meals and gives them arts and crafts activites;
- Josefina Martinez, BS ’23 is working to construct sustainable tiny home neighborhoods run totally on reusable vitality, making tiny-home residing a long-term and sustainable possibility;
- Rebecca McCabe, Ph.D. ’26 is creating an economical ocean wave vitality converter (WEC) whereby the geometry of the system is set by an optimization algorithm to cut back materials value;
- Mia Muschek, MBA ’23 is bringing training to the dessert trade with a spherical ice cream deal with that resembles the inner construction of a planet;
- Ruth Ogbemudia, BS ’25 is making a skincare line for girls with pigmented pores and skin composed of pure substances from West African international locations and their native economies, and can develop a pc algorithm that may diagnose pores and skin situations on-the-spot;
- Giorgia Scelzo, MS ’22 is launching a peer-to-peer furnishings rental market to cut back consumerism and enhance sustainability;
- Mana Setayesh, BS ’25 is beginning a sustainable line of clothes that adapts sizing to prospects’ physique sorts;
- Julia Solar, BS ’25 is creating an app that helps customers keep in contact with outdated buddies by sending automated messages on a daily schedule;
- Monica Theibault, MS ‘23 is creating lithium-sulfur batteries with the potential to beat a few of the environmental and practical drawbacks of present lithium-ion batteries.
“We’re so honored to work with this unbelievably sensible cohort of scholars who’re tackling laborious, complicated, necessary points and making a distinction on this planet,” mentioned program director Andrea Ippolito, B.S. ‘06, M.Eng ‘07.
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