05/21/2021
Push-ups, sit-ups, squats have been staples of exercise regimens since ancient Rome - and there’s still no exact way to measure them. But now there’s the Bulldog RepBox™, which helps everyone from average gym rats to pro athletes to perform them with complete consistency.
The device could soon be seen in a lot more gyms, thanks to Projects2Products, an undergraduate student program that gives hands-on experience in turning student projects into commercial products. The program is supported by the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID), the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY), and the SEAS Greenberg Engineering Teaching Concourse (GETC). Besides sharing the ingenuity of Yale’s students to parts well beyond campus, Projects2Products gives students a chance to work on all angles of entrepreneurship - product design, manufacturing, and marketing.
Yale Innovators Celebrated at Startup Yale 2021
Over three days, students pitched for roughly $125,000 in funding as they shared how they re innovating in health, sustainability, tech, and more.
Startup Yale 2021 took place from April 29 through May 1, bringing together eight events and hundreds of virtual attendees in a series of conversations and pitch-offs. For the second year, Startup Yale took place entirely on Zoom, with students from across Yale pitching for the campus’ biggest entrepreneurship awards in front of a live audience.
The event kicked off with a keynote featuring Porter Braswell (YC ’11), in conversation with Tsai CITY faculty director Anjelica Gonzalez and Tsai CITY student team member Jamal Davis Neal, Jr. (YDS ’23). Braswell is the founder of Jopwell, a platform that represents and advances careers for Black, Latinx, and Native American students and professionals, as well as the author of