Penn State News

Over the past year, the NCPA LaunchBox and its Idea Lab, which offers students, faculty, staff and the community the opportunity to utilize 3D printers, virtual and augmented reality, commercial vinyl printing and more, have seen many changes and have been part of numerous events to help educate the community that they serve.

Domenic Contrino and Gabrielle Giampietro have only just begun their graduate research at Penn State as environmental engineering master's students — but they have already jumped right in to finding real-world problems their research could solve by connecting with members of industry through the Invent Penn State NSF I-Corps Short Course program.

Applications for the Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank Fall 2023 FastTrack Accelerator program are open with a deadline set for midnight, Sept. 4.

Venture Connection, an investor-to-entrepreneur matchmaking event, is now accepting applications. The event will take place during the Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference, to be held Oct. 16-17 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

In the latest episode of Invent Penn State’s “Dare to Disrupt” podcast, host Ryan Newman interviews serial entrepreneur Bill Seibel, who has played a role in 14 startups: five as founder and CEO, five as CEO, and another four as an operating executive.