Students Attending I-CORPS
On August 6th, eight SSU students majoring in electrical engineering, kinesiology, and marketing participated in the kickoff workshop in San Diego for the Fall 2016 CSU Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) Challenge. The challenge is for these multi-disciplinary SSU student teams is to present a biotechnology research-based idea. During the challenge, funded teams will participate in a series of webinars designed to teach them about the evidence based customer discovery process, business model canvas concepts, business communications, legal and biotechnology regulatory issues. This year Chris Stewart, President & COO of Pocket Radar, Inc. is the industry advisor for the two SSU I-Corps teams. “I am very excited to be a part of the process this year. I felt students got a lot out of this workshop. This is a very valuable way to gain an understanding of the entrepreneurial process. Both teams were great representatives for Sonoma State University.”, said Chris. The teams are scheduled to make their final presentation in January at the 29th CSU Annual Biotechnology Symposium.