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Building Inclusive STEM Communities with Dr. Wanda Eugene, Collaborat...
Underserved and underestimated groups across Florida often lack the resources and tools to get involved and grow their ideas into successful businesses. Dr. Wanda Eugene, director for the Collaboratory for Inclusive Entrepreneurship, has made it her mission to fix this.
Determined to extend his wife’s life, Peter Travers of LifeBridge Innovations built a Tumor Treating Fields device from the ground up.
As a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Dr. Christina Drake, was so inspired by the technical smarts and problem-solving abilities of the starship Enterprise’s chief engineer, Geordi La Forge, that she decided to pursue a similar path.
It wasn’t until he built a VR flight simulator prototype for a senior design project, however, that the thought of creating a business to pursue these ideas crossed his mind. Encouraged by feedback from his professors and local industry leaders, Naids turned his project into a spinoff company and co-founded Talon Simulations in 2015.