"A Star is Born at the Googleplex:" that was the headline on a flush on the Forbes website highlighting figurer scientific discipline Ph.D. educatee Sarah Esper together with ThoughtSTEM, the start-up she co-founded.
Esper lately took utilization inwards a pitch contender at the LATISM/Latino2 upshot at the Google Ventures Startup Lab inwards Mountain View. ThoughtSTEM went on to win the move past times accolade for start-ups at the event, bringing domicile $10,000.
Incidentally, the LATISM/Latino2 upshot was organized past times Jennifer Arguello, a Jacobs School cS alumni together with fellow member of the CSE Alumni Board.
Students inwards the ThoughtSTEM plan get-go at the same marking equally UC San Diego freshmen majoring inwards figurer science, Esper said inwards a flush that profiled her start-up, which she co-founded amongst swain CS Ph.D. educatee Stephen Foster together with biochemistry Ph.D. educatee Lindsey Handley. If they enroll inwards ThoughtSTEM inwards middle schoolhouse together with hold until they graduate high school, children tin give the axe move accomplish the same marking equally students graduating from UC San Diego amongst a major inwards figurer science. Students acquire to a greater extent than oft than non from hands-on tasks together with are paired amongst UC San Diego figurer scientific discipline graduate together with undergraduate students, who mentor them together with assist them main programming skills.
That's what caught the oculus of Giovanni Rodriguez, who wrote the Forbes flush together with is an entrepreneur, co-founder together with CEO of SocialxDesign, a novel tech consulting company.
"What I similar most virtually this is ThoughtSTEM’s focus on the offline experience. Unlike most tech ventures that acquire an audience inwards Silicon Valley, ThoughtSTEM is bullish on the immersive sense that tin give the axe solely plough over off face-to-face. But they are betting that online tech tin give the axe supplement the experience, together with give them greater reach. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 engineering platform is inwards the works, together with when Esper spoke virtually it, I could reckon the VCs nodding inwards approval," he wrote.
ThoughtSTEM together with iv other start-ups were selected for an chance to pitch at the Latism conference subsequently submitting an application. Esper together with swain entrepreneurs got an risk to come across 1 on 1 amongst venture capitalists together with other startup gurus. She gave a four-minute pitch together with answered a three-minute Q&A.
In add-on to the $10,000, ThoughtSTEM also won a tabular array together with a Chromebook.
"We accept also gained connections amongst incredible VCs, accelerators together with startups all dedicated to improving the patch of figurer scientific discipline educational activity equally nosotros are!" Esper wrote inwards an email.
Read the whole Forbes flush here.
Read a flush on the Jacobs School website virtually ThoughtSTEM here.
Go to the ThoughtSTEM website:
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