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A Successful Game Jam Hosted with Schools Across the Triangle

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Dec 23, 2025

2025: A Year in Review

Just like that, 2025 has come to a close. But what a great year it has been for entrepreneurship at NC State. Steve Markham, executive director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship,…
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Dec 19, 2025

Celebrating Success at the 2025 WIN Holiday Party

NC State’s Wolfpack Investor Network (WIN) held its annual holiday party on the evening of Monday, December 8, 2025, at the Carolina Exotic Car Club in Raleigh, where WIN members…
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Nov 25, 2025

Powering Up a Startup

Three NC State College of Engineering students entered the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program with an idea to make fleet vehicles more efficient and sustainable. Micah Ulrich (B.S. Mechanical Engineering ‘19, M.S.…

Nov 24, 2025

Empowering Innovation: NC State Scholarship Recipients Share Their Journeys

Each year, NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IE) supports students who are pushing the boundaries of creativity, problem-solving and leadership. Through generous donor-funded scholarships, these students gain more than financial…
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Nov 12, 2025

Miller Fellows Share Their Growth and Grit

In 2014, Dr. Tom Miller created the Entrepreneurship Initiative Fellows program to support newly graduated NC State students who wished to pursue their venture full-time after graduation. The program was…
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Nov 10, 2025

Brewing Change: How 321 Coffee is Redefining Inclusion

What began as a casual exploration of entrepreneurship between NC State alums Lindsay Wrege, Business Administration ’21 and Michael Evans, B.S. Statistics ’20, M.S. Statistics ’21, has grown into one…
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Jun 20, 2025

NC State Students Think and Do Good All Over the World

At NC State, students think and do far beyond the classroom — sometimes even across the world. The Entrepreneurship Clinic is centered on experiential learning, emphasizing a hands-on approach where…
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May 5, 2025

Entrepreneurship Courses Enhance Students’ Career Readiness

When students come to college, they typically pick a major where they learn technical skills to be successful in their career of choice. While it is not meant to be…
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Apr 21, 2025

An Entrepreneurial Exploration of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a place bursting with innovation and entrepreneurship. Every spring, NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship takes a group of students to experience this bustling hub of innovation. This…
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Mar 11, 2025

A Successful Game Jam Hosted with Schools Across the Triangle

The first Triangle Game Jam, co-hosted by NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Duke Game Design, Development and Innovation and UNC Chapel Hill Computer Science, was a major success. Ahmed Ali,…