MS Team at the University of Rochester

🎃 Exciting News from Pitches and Pumpkins! 🎃
We are thrilled to announce the WINNERS of the most spooktacular pitch event of the year! 👻🎉

The MS TEAM program and the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Rochester joined forces to bring you an evening filled with innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit at the iZone.

🌟 Without further ado, let's give a big round of applause to our fantastic winners:

🥇First Place - Brandon Davis
🥈Second Place - Judy Monickaraj & Jazmin Phommavanh
🥉Third Place - Masum Hasan

🎃 Monster Market Potential Award
Penpal - Tamuda Chimhanda, Samuel Henderson and Ameenul Haque

🎃Cauldron of Creativity Award
Aveisha Maharaj

🎃Witchcraft of Words Award
Timothy Amanga

Congratulations to these incredible teams for their hard work, dedication, and outstanding pitches. You've truly impressed us all! 🌟

A huge shoutout to all the participants, judges, our amazing MC David Mammano, and everyone who came to support these budding entrepreneurs. Your energy and enthusiasm made this event a memorable one.

Stay tuned for more updates, and keep those innovative ideas flowing! The future of entrepreneurship at the University of Rochester is looking brighter than ever. 🚀🌟

🚀 Welcome Future Innovators! 🚀

New TEAM Students, are you ready to embark on an exciting journey in Technical Entrepreneurship and Management at the Simon Business School and Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences: University of Rochester? 🌟 Get ready to explore the intersection of technology, innovation, and business. Here's a warm welcome to our vibrant community of aspiring tech entrepreneurs! 🌐

We can't wait to see what you'll achieve! 🎓

Congratulations to our First-Place team:
Abdullah Abuomar, Qinqin Xiao, Wuxiucheng Wang and Tianyi Wang

Thank you also for the amazing partnership with D3 for this event! We appreciate everyone's participation in this very successful event.

UR NextGen Challenge is December 2nd! [Deadline to apply is Nov. 30th, so don't wait!]

We are partnering with D3 Engineering this year in our 1-day team event!

How to Register:
📧 [email protected]

🔬🧪⚙️Participants:
Need to have a STEM background but can be UG, Grad, or Ph.D.!

What is UR NextGen Challenge?

1-Day Challenge working directly with a company to solve a real-world problem. NextGen is a TEAM challenge! You will work with your team to create a solution to the problem statement and possibly win PRIZE MONEY! 💰

This competition historically is all about some friendly competition and is a lot of fun!

Any questions, just ask Rebecca via email
[email protected]

Ain Center is introducing a new workshop series, Block-by-Block: Building Entrepreneurial Foundation! These workshops are designed to help student innovators and entrepreneurs learn more about special tools, resources, approaches, and concepts that could help them with their projects and career paths.

The first session, Exploring Innovation, will feature Jennifer Sertl, Adjunct Professor at RIT, Director of Marketing at Circle Optics, and Community Director at MARL Startup Studio.

Join us on October 4th @ 5 PM in iZone. Register online at bit.ly/registerAIN to grab your spot!

Welcome to MS Team at the University of Rochester Orientation for Fall of 2022! We were so excited to tour NextCorps and have an amazing dinner at The Commissary.

We are excited for the MS TEAM Graduation Class of 2022! Meliora: Ever Better

💡 The Ain Center is excited to announce our next Startup Bytes event!

⚙️ This month, we are taking a dive into the ethics behind AI. What happens to our data? What are some of the risks that are out there? How might AI impact the workforce of the future?

🎓 Computer science major and e5 scholar Daniel Munoz Huerta ‘22 is leading the discussion with panelists:
👉 Shrikant “Shri” Adhikarla – UR Alum and Research Data Scientist at FLX AI in Rochester, a company that works with government agencies, defense contractors, and media companies to interpret and authenticate imagery.
👉 Naushad UzZaman – UR Alum and CoFounder/CTO at Blackbird.AI, a company which helps organizations detect and respond to disinformation and manipulation that causes both financial and reputational harm.
👉 Andrew Branch – Director of Project Engineering at Measures for Justice, a Rochester not-profit which aims to make accurate criminal justice data available to promote reform.

🤗 We welcome all students, faculty, staff, and community members to attend. Please register for a calendar invite, updates, and the recording. 📲 bit.ly/registerAIN

👀 Hope to see you there!

💡 Are you trying to bring a deep tech product or service to life?

🤝 We have partnered with MARL Startup Studio – an early-stage accelerator fund focusing on startups that create deep tech products and services – to bring you virtual office hours open to all UR students.

💻 Happening this Friday (2/18) from 12:30 to 3PM (EST) via Zoom. (Meeting ID: 697 789 7799 || Passcode: 9C9EUF)

🎓 Students are welcome to join and bring any questions about a new idea or venture.

🙅‍♀️ You do not need to have a fully-formed business.

🤔 Have questions? Reach out to the Ain Center at [email protected].