School of Industrial Design students have only been a very small part of CREATE-X, an initiative that gives students the skills and knowledge to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities.

Now, the School and CREATE-X are hoping to change that. Together they have launched a new competition designed to encourage more ID students to take part in the program. It also ensures that at least one ID team takes part in the CREATE-X summer Startup Launch program.

CREATE-X is composed of three elements – Learn, Make, Launch – in which students learn about entrepreneurship and startups, get mentoring, financial backing, and more. They also can receive class credit.

For this new award, industrial design faculty encouraged students to apply. The School received 19 applications and the winner of the new CREATE-X Industrial Design Prize will be announced at Launchpad Plus on May 3.

The winner will get a slot in the CREATE-X summer Startup Launch that gives participants $20,000 to spend on their project.

However, the general CREATE-X Startup Launch has many more slots and ID teams not chosen may submit their projects to the general CREATE-X competition.

Currently, only about 1% of CREATE-X students have come from the School of Industrial Design. Although Raghupathy “Siva” Sivakumar, a founding director of Create X, pointed out that students aren’t always asked their majors or minors so the number could be higher.

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