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Global Tech Treks
Global Tech Treks expands CORE’s horizons across the globe. Whether we're organizing our annual Spring Break Global Tech Treks or hosting foreign exchange students in NYC for some of our larger conferences, we focus on exploring what entrepreneurship means abroad and from a global perspective. In the past, we've visited London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, and Shanghai.
Almaworks
The Almaworks team helps student founders in the Columbia community launch successful companies by providing the resources and support that allow student entrepreneurs to go from zero to a hundred. Almaworks, our flagship initiative and Columbia’s first and only student-run accelerator program, has supported 45 Columbia startups that have won major pitch competitions, advanced to prestigious incubator programs, and gone on to raise over $12 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, TechStars, and others.
Enterprises
The Enterprises team builds and leads a weekly, semester-long class on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Through peer-led discussions and group activities, students of Enterprises learn about float analysis, customer discovery techniques, market analysis, product development, vesting, and venture capital. The results are a better knowledge of entrepreneurship at Columbia and beyond, a working pitch deck on an idea, and a diverse network of entrepreneurs.
Startup Columbia + Columbia Venture Competition
The Startup Columbia and Columbia Venture Competition team collaborates with Columbia Entrepreneurship and Columbia University’s undergraduate schools to showcase the breadth of entrepreneurship at Columbia. We run the annual Startup Columbia entrepreneurship festival and coordinate the Undergraduate Challenge of the $250,000 Columbia Venture Competition.
Entrepreneurship via Exploration (EVE)
EVE provides an immersive introduction to entrepreneurship in NYC for first year students. Through weekly site visits and group discussions, first years learn about companies and organizations across industries, the steps of the startup process, and the relevant resources available at Columbia University and in New York City.
Blueprint Designathon
The annual Blueprint Designathon is a day-long human-centered design challenge centered around design thinking for social impact. In collaboration with Barnard-Columbia Design for America, the Designathon introduces students to human-centered design via an immersive day of workshops, user interviews, and prototyping.
CORE Youth
In partnership with the Columbia University Double Discovery Center and Columbia Global Centers, CORE Youth works to expose high school students to social entrepreneurship via conferences, workshops, and after-school programs. In our rapidly changing society, CORE Youth seeks to introduce high school students to entrepreneurial thinking and problem solving by building their own social startup ventures.
CORE Impulse
CORE Impulse fosters a community of writers exploring the intersection between entrepreneurship and journalism. Over the course of 6 weeks, Impulse cohorts speak to founders, students, and other players in the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Columbia and NYC. There is a separate application to be a part of Impulse.
TigerLaunch
CORE is proud to host the NYC Regional competition of TigerLaunch, the nation's largest student-run startup competition, in collaboration with the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club.