News & Events
April 2, 2024
DALLAS, Pa. — Penn State Wilkes-Barre and its LaunchBox are supporting entrepreneurship beginning at the high school level through programming and partnerships in the region. The campus has hosted a Teen Entrepreneurial Challenge the last few summers, with high school students attending...
August 14, 2023
Registration for new fall session of Idea TestLab now open; applications accepted through Aug. 31 Left photo: Tom Dubreuil poses as Santa Claus. Right photo: Michelle Mecham, right, and her wife, Arlene Kalkowsky, at the Hinterlands Local Food stand. Credit: Tom...
April 21, 2023
Maxwell Phillips, Penn State Scranton; Parkston Meyers, Penn State Scranton; and Nicholas Kline, Penn State Wilkes-Barre, present their project "Gamer Realities" to a team of judges in the final round of the tecBRIDGE Business Plan Competition. Credit: Penn State Wilkes-Barre. All Rights Reserved....
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Invent Penn State News
May 13
2024
Six entrepreneurs participate in first content creator accelerator
Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank, in partnership with The Penn State Brand Academy, offered an all-new content creator-focused Digital TestLab accelerator program this spring.
May 7
2024
Local artist uses woodworking lab at OriginLabs
Edgar Farmer, professor emeritus of education at Penn State and local artist, recently started using the woodworking equipment available at OriginLabs to enhance his wood-carving process.
April 23
2024
Penn State student startup Saveware innovates tax refunds with AI
Penn State student startup Saveware, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help automate the sales tax refund process for businesses and tax firms, is one of six teams selected for Invent Penn State’s Summer Founders Program, a 13-week program which gives entrepreneurs a $15,000 grant to work full-time on their startups over the summer.
April 23
2024
Tyrone wood floor manufacturer utilizes OriginLabs prototyping facility
Britta Teller and Evan Stover are the co-founders of Steller Floors, a sustainable hardwood floor startup based out of Tyrone. They are regular users of OriginLabs, Invent Penn State's prototyping and fabrication space in State College.
April 16
2024
Summer Founders Program awards six student startups each with $15,000
Six Penn State student startups have been selected into the 2024 Invent Penn State Summer Founders Program. The Summer Founders Program provides teams with at least one Penn State student founder a $15,000 grant to work on their startup, social good, or nonprofit idea over the summer at Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank.
April 16
2024
The Penn State Brand Academy hosts inaugural educational networking event
The Penn State Brand Academy hosted its first educational networking event, the Lions to Leaders Symposium, to connect student-athletes with successful Penn State student-athlete alums on April 10.