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Kent State alumna and designer Anne Skoch

Most college students start to worry about job interviews as their graduation day nears. But before Kent State University alumna Anne (Skoch) Johnson had even entered her senior year, her post-graduation employment plans were already mapped out. A 2018 Honors College graduate who majored in fashion merchandising and minored in entrepr...

LaunchNET's February Pitch and Ponder event.

 Pitch and Ponder is a regular event, presented several times each semester by LaunchNET Kent State. The student entrepreneurial organization describes Pitch and Ponder as "a stress-free, low stakes open mic night for founders and creatives to share their ideas, practice their personal or business pitches, and connect with other ...

Kent State Today
Pitch and Ponder Showcase 2023

On April 25, the DI Hub hosted the Pitch and Ponder Showcase, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.  This unique event presented a tabling/vendor opportunity for Kent State's student entrepreneurs to network, meet new customers, increase their audiences and spread the word about their businesses.  Each entrepreneur with a product or service w...

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Julia Gray's design work banner

Visual Communication Design senior Julia Gray (Spring ’23) has been interested in design before she even knew what it was. “My family had an ongoing joke throughout my childhood that I ‘was born with paper in one hand and a pencil in the other,’” she says. “I had an appreciation for certain brands because of the way they utilized a unique ...

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Dreams of launching a business, researching brand new materials and developing groundbreaking systems have come true for four Kent State undergraduate students. With the support and guidance of dedicated faculty, along with access to state-of-the-art labs and equipment in the Design Innovation Hub, students Garrett Hartley, Lucas Crag...

audrey at a vendor event

Entrepreneurship major Audrey Ernst's love of baking and a microgrant have helped her baking business take shape. 

Kent State Students at LaunchNET event

Young entrepreneurs are able to pursue their dreams thanks to LaunchNET microgrants at Kent State University. After COVID-19 shut down many of its main events, LaunchNET was looking for another way to help entrepreneurial students. Staff realized the money dedicated for in-person pitch events could be turned into small grants for s...

LaunchNET cut the ribbon on its new suite of offices within the Design Innovation Hub/

Kent State University’s LaunchNET celebrated its 10th anniversary on Thursday and cut the ribbon on its new office suite in the Design Innovation Hub.       The unveiling was of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation Entrepreneurship Suite, which will serve as the new home for the business startup advising progr...

Logo for SkyHack 3.0

Students to create toy universe around WWII female aviators as part of SkyHack hackathon event Kent State University and The Red Door Films of Los Angeles announce “Play with a Purpose,” a sponsor challenge as part of the SkyHack 3.0 competition at Kent State to be held Nov. 5-7. Teams of students will create an interactive toy universe...