CollegeThinkTank Boston launched.
The City of Boston and Wentworth Institute of Technology co-founded CollegeThinkTank Boston bringing together students across colleges and universities and across disciplines to ideate around a real...
View ArticleGentoo's MassChallenge Journey
Part one of a three-part series Like many people our age, we find ourselves working in a small cubicle in an office building. This office is different than most, though. The two men sitting behind us...
View ArticleStartup Challenge Launched
Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation + Entrepreneurship Center, has kicked off the Fall semester’s Startup Challenge with 52 idea submission. So far, the entrepreneurs have been through two Bootcamps,...
View ArticleCalling Boston's Students | CollegeThinkTank Boston | Nov 9
Calling Boston's students! Get ready for the second CollegeThinkTank Boston taking place on November 9 at MassChallenge. This time the City selected the challenge of "Crowd Funding for Small...
View ArticleGentoo's Journey Continues
Benjamin Nadeau, Biomedical Engineering ’13, and Greg Affsa, Industrial Design ’15, continue their Gentoo story in part two of our three-part series. In this installment the team begins its first...
View ArticleSolving Problems that Matter
Growing up in an underprivileged town in Texas, Zelong Le saw firsthand the devastating way poverty can rip through family lives. As a Wentworth student he found an opportunity to help folks like the...
View ArticleStartupWatch | Gentoo's Acceleration
Benjamin Nadeau, Biomedical Engineering ’13, and Greg Affsa, Industrial Design ’15, continue their Gentoo story in part three of our three-part series. In this installment, the team looks back on an...
View ArticleGap Funding to Promising Student Startup Ideas
A semester’s worth of brainstorming, planning, strategizing, and designing came down to Pitchfest, where interdisciplinary teams participating in the Accelerate Startup Challenge pitched their...
View ArticleDesign Museum Boston and Wentworth Accelerate on Adventure
The Design Museum Boston partnered with Accelerate to launch its very first Adventure last Saturday, January 25 in the DMB headquarters at 70 E India Row. Adventures are designed to engage a small...
View ArticleFour Accelerate Teams in Pitch Round
On March 6, four Accelerate teams pitched in front of a panel of three judges during the first Pitch Round of 2014 at the Accelerate space in Willson Hall.Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation +...
View ArticleTed Acworth from Artaic at Accelerate
On March 20, 2014, Ted Acworth, founder and CEO of Artaic, kicked off the Boston Design Week at Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation + Entrepreneurship Center. He shared how Artaic formed and how the...
View ArticleHOT SEAT event draws Mentors
Accelerate teams took to Willson Hall on March 27 for the Hot Seat event, an opportunity for previously funded teams and 2014 Spring teams to share their early-stage ideas with alumni, professionals...
View ArticleFine tuning WIRE - A Radio Station Startup
More and more lately, I've seen WIRE be compared to a startup, if not called one outright. Presumably the comparison is made in good faith, of course, as well as in light of our recent accomplishments...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Prosthetic
Taylor Rosenblum, BSME ’15, designed a part on a 3D mechanical software program, put the necessary stock material into a computational numerical control machine, programmed the machine to build the...
View ArticleSocial Innovation Lab | What can you do for the Zoo?
Immerse to make it real! In case you have not heard yet, word around campus is that six students from different disciplines are taking part of the Social Innovation Lab this summer. Thanks to...
View ArticleHow the City of Boston listens to Students today
College Think Tank Boston (@thinktankbos) was back for a third round on June 21st at Mass Challenge’s new location. Since its start last summer, this exciting one-day event gathered students from...
View ArticleAccelerate Kickstarted Startup Challenge
Evening. Wednesday, September 24. Another day of the fall semester done. Campus was quiet. Other than a few students seen leaving Beatty after spending time in the Alumni Library, not much life on...
View ArticleFireside Chat with Anil Jha
Anil Jha, CEO of Hydronovation and a highly successful Wentworth alumnus joined Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation + Entrepreneurship Center this Fall for an informal Fireside Chat. He remembered...
View ArticleZoo Hack for Franklin Park
From left: Chad Davis, Josh Willis, Jennifer Roy, Ryan Cataldo, and Eric Galano After 12 weeks of immersive and experiential engagement with Franklin Park Zoo, six students from the Social...
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