The Social Innovation Startup Lab is a crash course in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, featuring hands-on incubator-style classes in partnership with tech industry members, like Intel and NXP. It aims to use of technology for sustainability and social good. During the semester, the students' teams are exposed to 12 fantastic labs + working sessions with industry experts, professionals, faculty, and mentors, to develop technical and business solutions for community organizations. Students gain expertise in Design Thinking, Customer Discovery, Business Model Development, Systems Thinking, Go-to-Market Strategy, among other tools, and refine their power skills. Organizations receive a team of well-prepared and mentored students to propose a consistent, validated solution tailored to their specific challenges and needs.

• Problem statement re-framed from the project challenge.
•  Learnings from customer discovery: customer pains and root causes of the problem.
• Development of customer journey map, stakeholder management and ecosystem mapping.
• Technical and business model proposed solutions presented in three pitch sessions for client/organization validation.
• Initial low-resolution prototyping (service, physical, and virtual products) for solution scope validation.
• Final pitch presentation showcase: competition for eSeed grant to execute the proposed solution next step/milestone.