This month marks the fifth anniversary of the first Hacking For Defense (H4D) course at Stanford University. In this Q&A, Alex Gallo, Executive Director of the Common Mission Project (CMP), looks back at the impact H4D and other Hacking programs have made, and ahead to CMP’s advancing mission.
Read MoreLearn more about how the pandemic has shifted the way we teach, what we learned teaching, and how we can use the Lean methodology to make an impact on our communities in our Build Back Better: Entrepreneurship Education and The Lean LaunchPad Methodology in a Post-COVID-19 Economy white paper.
Read MoreAs a marine ecologist, enrolling in Hacking 4 Oceans was a significant departure from my comfort zone. I’d rather discuss Echinoderms than entrepreneurship. However, H4O’s promise to train students on how to identify scalable solutions for real-world conservation problems in just ten weeks sounded like a good opportunity. So I formed a team with four other graduate students, chose a marine conservation problem to focus on, and signed up for the course.
Read MoreMore than 400 educators from 100 universities across the globe gathered online for the Lean Innovation Educators Summit on July 24 to share best practices and lessons learned from adapting their entrepreneurship education courses in the midst of the pandemic.
Read MoreOn June 25 2020, the Common Mission Project officially launched the organization’s Board of Advisors. This dynamic team of defense, entrepreneurship, policy and technology experts will support the organization’s goal of building mission driven entrepreneurs to solve critical national security, civic, and social challenges.
Read MoreIn Spring 2020, UC Santa Cruz offered the first class of its kind focused on identifying solutions to key coastal and ocean problems using Lean Startup methodology.
Read MoreThe Undergraduate Research Forum is the College of Natural Sciences' signature event designed to bring students, industry professionals and science enthusiasts together to explore research and celebrate science.
Common Mission Project is a proud sponsor of the 2019-2020 Inventors Program and the H4D students at the University of Texas at Austin.
Read MoreAn important experiment in innovation is unfolding at one of the most staid institutions in the US military — West Point. Can West Point cadets solve real-world warfighter problems operating as entrepreneurs?
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