The Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship (SCTE) has created a multi-disciplinary summer program to help student entrepreneurs move forward with business concepts focused on market needs. The program will run from June 7 – August 13 in downtown Troy. Applications for summer 2010 are now available and must be submitted by April 30.
The new 10-week summer program, called “Student Sandbox,” will be open to any RPI student with a business or who wants to join a startup team. The program is designed to provide emerging entrepreneurs with an opportunity to focus on how to take an idea from creation to commercialization. This hands-on course will utilize lectures, interactive group sessions and individualized coaching, and will cover topics such as how to vet an idea, how to get funding, components of a successful business plan, the Start-Up lexicon, and how to develop an effective short presentation. Students will work in teams of 4-6 people, and, at the end of the session, each team will present a short business plan focusing on how to bring the product to market.
Participating student teams will receive a stipend to support development of their businesses.
The Severino Center is grateful for the generous support for student entrepreneurs from Bob Buhrmaster ’69 that has helped to make this program possible.
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The Paul J. '69 and Kathleen M. Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship (SCTE), established in 1988, helps foster new generations of entrepreneurs through outreach programs, education and research. Centered in Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management & Technology, The Severino Center lies at the core of Lally’s commitment to Entrepreneurship. The mission of the SCTE is to integrate educational and research programs by exposing every Rensselaer student to the practices and principles of entrepreneurship, to infuse the fundamentals of entrepreneurship throughout the Rensselaer curriculum, and to extend Rensselaer’s leadership and national prominence in technological entrepreneurship.