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Student entrepreneurs compete for $30,000 in funding on 'The Investment'

5/21/18

Sherveen Karbasiafshar is a biology student at Penn State. He, along with five other undergraduates, created HemoGO — a smartphone application designed to assist people who want to check their complete blood count on the go. HemoGO is one of six Penn State student startups working with the Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program to compete for a pool of $30,000 in the annual Inc.U competition show “The Investment,” airing at 8 p.m. May 24 on WPSU.

Penn State Berks Trimatis team

Berks engineering team is finalist in Inc.U competition

3/28/18

Two Penn State Berks engineering students are tackling the issue of plastic waste by using it as filament for 3-D printers. Their team, Trimatis, is one of six finalists competing in this year’s Inc.U competition, sponsored by Penn State’s Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP). The finalists earned a spot on WPSU’s "The Investment" television show where they will pitch their ideas in a "Shark Tank"-style format to a panel of judges for a chance to win investment funding. The show will air on WPSU-TV on April 7.

GEW Penn State 2017

GEW Penn State orchestrates town and gown events for entrepreneurs

11/2/17

Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Penn State is set to bring entrepreneurs from campus and community together the week of Nov. 12–16. GEW Penn State events will take place on 15 Commonwealth Campuses, including University Park, and aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policy makers and start-up champions around the world.

PennTAP

Free workshops to offer comfortable classrooms to Philadelphia students

10/25/17

The Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program at Penn State will offer “Building Re-tuning: An Energy Sustainability Series” at no cost to facility managers in school districts, community colleges and government offices in the Philadelphia area. The workshops are offered by PennTAP over the course of the next year. The first in the series is on Nov. 16.

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PennTAP energy efficiency workshop rescheduled for March 27 due to weather

3/13/17

The Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program workshop to educate businesses about how to save money by becoming more energy efficient has been postponed due to impending weather. The all-day Facility Operations Workshop, originally set for March 14, has been rescheduled to take place from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 27 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.

Ria Bhata

Student entrepreneurs one part of Penn State’s new venture conference

10/10/16

For all those people who find themselves grasping for words when meeting new people or starting conversations, Andrew Simpson, a senior in criminal justice, has the answer. Simpson started Someonew — an app to connect people with similar interests — and made the pitch for his startup as part of the Invent Penn State Venture and IP Conference, held at the Penn Stater Hotel Conference Center Oct. 6 and 7.

PennTAP

PennTAP receives grants to help Pa. manufacturers reduce carbon footprint

10/3/16

The Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program was awarded $655,000 in grant funding from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to offer free energy and environmental assessments to businesses across Pennsylvania. PennTAP is a federal-state-university partnership program at Penn State that was created to enhance economic development across the Commonwealth by addressing needs that will improve a company’s competitiveness.

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