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From Engineer to Entrepreneur

Jaclyn McVey

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Apr 28, 2026

The Power Sound of Entrepreneurship: Graham Casey’s Exciting Journey at NC State

Growing up at NC State football games with a family full of alumni, Graham Casey — a graduating business administration senior with a concentration in entrepreneurship and a minor in…
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Apr 27, 2026

Designing Her Own Success: Kaya Shimer’s Road to Graduation

The atmosphere at NC State sold Kaya Shimer, a graduating senior majoring in design studies with a minor in business entrepreneurship, on this university. With a welcoming campus and academic…
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Apr 27, 2026

Innovation in Science: Katy Klein’s Journey in Biochemistry Research

After spending a year at UNC-Chapel Hill, Katy Klein found herself seeking something different in both community and academic offerings. She looked down the road to NC State, where she…
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Apr 24, 2026

Exciting Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship at VenturePack Challenge

VenturePack Challenge (VPC) 2026 was an exciting display of innovation, entrepreneurship and interdisciplinary ideas. On April 7, 2026, eighteen teams competed for a grand total of $128,000 at NC State’s…
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Apr 15, 2026

Exploring Entrepreneurship Beyond Raleigh with the Albright Entrepreneurs Village

Sometimes a trip to the coast is not just to sit in the sand. For eight Albright Entrepreneurs Village (AEV) students, a spring break trip to Charleston, SC, was an…
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Apr 10, 2026

The Bright Side of the Needle

From a very young age, Christi Luke (Veterinary Medicine ‘14) had a love for animals. Her mother supported this passion, but reminded her that there was much more to cute…
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Mar 30, 2026

Driving with Endurance: Tobias Hullette’s Path to Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship does not have a script or roadmap; it is more like a puzzle. For engineering graduate student and 2025 Park Scholar, Tobias Hullette, the puzzle is what he loves…
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Mar 23, 2026

ACC InVenture Prize 2026: Sylva Systems

ACC InVenture Prize (ACCIP) represents an opportunity to stimulate undergraduate entrepreneurial activity and increase student-faculty engagement, to celebrate and highlight the exceptional creativity and ingenuity of students and to inspire…
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Mar 21, 2026

Cutting Through: CN-Seamless Powering Portable Automation

Being an entrepreneur offers a whole new level of ownership — quite literally — in a project. For the CN-Seamless team, this is what drove them to try their hand…
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Mar 11, 2026

From Engineer to Entrepreneur

Sometimes, entrepreneurship finds people in unique and unexpected ways. For Sumedh Beknalkar, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering with a minor in electrical engineering, that is exactly how he got…