Open to all SICE students and the broader IU community, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program helps students seize their future and do things that have never been done before.
We support aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs through an incubator, activities, mentoring, scholarships, and more.
While Adam Sobol was an undergrad studying informatics, he founded CareBand, which uses wearable sensors to monitor the movement and daily activity of seniors living with dementia.
SICE helped Adam develop the skill set to succeed with CareBand by exposing him to several forms of computing. Winning an IU entrepreneurship competition helped, too: Adam got money to turn his idea into reality and learned a lot from pitching to a group of distinguished SICE and IU alumni.
Open to all IU students, Shoemaker Innovation Center in Luddy Hall 2150 provides work space and hosts classes, workshops, and events with entrepreneurs. The center was made possible through a generous gift from John and Donna Shoemaker.
You can contact the Shoemaker Innovation Center staff at sicesic@indiana.edu.
The Shoebox helps student entrepreneurs build, launch, and sustain their businesses. Student startups can apply for 24/7 access to the Shoebox’s office space, which is located in the Shoemaker Innovation Center.
The Shoebox also collaborates with the Hoosier Hatchery pre-incubator at the Kelley School of Business and Bloomington’s Dimension Mill startup accelerator.
To apply for coworking space, write to sicesic@indiana.edu.
Pitch your innovative idea for a slice of the $15,000 in funding. The competition is open to all IU Bloomington students.
Learn about the Cheng Wu Innovation Challenge
Each year, a group of SICE graduate students travels to Silicon Valley to learn firsthand from successful tech entrepreneurs. You pay for transportation, and donors cover the food, hotel, and logistics costs. Grad students, we’ll email you when the application for the next Velocity Conference goes live.
Learn about the Velocity ConferenceWe offer two types of mentoring to help you bring your ideas to life. To schedule a session, write to sicesic@indiana.edu.
Each month, experienced entrepreneurs like Brad Wisler, founder and CEO of Periodic, and Pat East, founder and CEO of Hanapin Marketing, meet with students to give feedback on their business concepts. The sessions are free, and there’s no obligation to work with the entrepreneurs or their companies.
We’ve partnered with Ice Miller, one of Indianapolis’s largest law firms, to provide free initial consultations to student innovators—so you can have the confidence to expand your intellectual property without the fear of losing your rights.
After the initial consultation, there’s no obligation to work with Ice Miller. Subsequent meetings, filing fees, and other miscellaneous charges will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
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