challenge lab
Innovating through crisis: why now is the best time to start a company and positively change the world
In Spring 2021, SCET will offer a new course, Challenge Lab – Innovating Through Crisis (INDENG 185-002), that will help students create new startups focused on helping to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Is starting a new company in the midst of a global pandemic really the best time? Yes, if we use history as a…
Student Perspective: A Semester of Euphoria
When climbing the hill like roads to the Goldman School of Policy, the location of my Technology Entrepreneurship class, I couldn’t help but focus on my excitement, so much that the irregularity in my breath didn’t even bother me. For the first class, I arrived 15 minutes early. I was so excited, and contrary to…
SCET Partners with Intuitive Foundation to Bring Redesigned Sports Tech & Human Performance Challenge Lab
Announcing Sports Tech and Human Performance ~ Spring 2020 Last year’s Sports Tech Challenge Lab received much attention from Cal students eager to dive headfirst into the fields of sports, technology, and science. In the Spring 2020 semester, this new challenge lab will be expanding in both scope and impact. The new course, led by…
“Don’t Be A Stranger” snags top prize at SCET’s Fall 2019 Collider Cup
More than 100 UC Berkeley students and community members gathered on Friday, December 13th in Sutardja Dai Hall to watch SCET’s top students and startups compete at Collider Cup V. The Collider Cup is an all-star showcase and competition for student teams from various classes offered by the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. Teams…
MeghaScore: Promoting financial inclusion in India
Five months ago, six UC Berkeley students joined a Challenge Lab where the objective was to solve six problems that face Meghalaya, a North-East state in India. The challenges were Rainwater Harvesting, Horticulture, Turmeric, ECO Tourism, Healthcare and Financial Inclusion. Our challenge was to find a way to create a solution for financial inclusion for…
Get ready for Collider Cup V!
On your mark, get set, go! We’re a month away from Collider Cup V — one of the biggest student entrepreneurship events at UC Berkeley. The event will be held on Friday, December 13, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Sutardja Dai Hall, in both Banatao Auditorium and the Kvamme Atrium. RSVP here…
Smart Villages: Students Pitch to Chief Minister of Meghalaya
Berkeley students have been tasked with developing digital tech to help impoverished Indian villages.
Needfinding, Design Thinking, and Alternative Meat: A Conversation With Anne Fletcher
An edited transcription of some of the questions that came up during Alyssa Plese’s conversation with Anne Fletcher, where they spoke about need-finding, design thinking, and the role they will play in Fletcher’s upcoming challenge lab.
Disrupt Berkeley welcomes students of all academic backgrounds to improve campus systems through entrepreneurship
Have you ever been frustrated by one or more of the UC Berkeley administrative systems? This coming fall, students have the chance to address problems and shortcomings with UC Berkeley administrative systems in the Challenge Lab course titled “Disrupt Berkeley.” The course, which still has open seats for enrollment, will address outdated and complicated UC…
Chef Dave Anderson on alternative meats: sustainable solution and big opportunity for entrepreneurs
During the Sutardja Center’s Alt.meat Challenge Lab course, Chef Dave Anderson walked students through his career path in the meat analog industry, imparting his view on why this emerging field is important more now than ever before. Prior to his success as a vegan chef, Anderson’s passions lied far outside of the food industry. Determined…
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