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Innovation Dojo is how EP is building a world-class community of the best student innovators and entrepreneurs on College Hill.
The Innovation Dojo is a semester-long student-led workshop series designed to challenge first- and second-year students at Brown and RISD to think differently about innovation and entrepreneurship through weekly classes and design workshops on Thursdays from 4-6:30 pm. For these sessions, EP invites an expert in innovation and entrepreneurship to give a master class workshop ranging from prototyping to start-up finance. Afterwards, students put their acquired knowledge into action by developing their own entrepreneurial projects. The semester culminates in the Innovation Dojo Demo Day competition where the students pitch their projects to the Brown community and a panel of VC judges with a prize money grant at stake.
Meet the Spring 2023 Mentors
Fall 2022 Winners
ESTER is a web extension designed to transform the global online shopping experience. By reading user input and generating a predicted “perfect fit” for different clothing styles, ESTER hopes to mitigate the environmental damage and monetary waste associated with clothing returns.
Fall 2022 MENTORS
SPRING 2022 MENTORS
Spring 2022 WINNERS
Self is a health and recovery app for college students. By offering highly personalised guidance centered on four strategic pillars of health — sleep, exercise, diet and mind — Self seeks to enhance the physical and mental of young adults and transform the global healthcare industry.
FALL 2021 MENTORS
FALL 2021 WINNERS
NestIt is an all-in-one roommate communication app using seamless status updates and maintaining privacy through a simple, user friendly interface. Through NestIt’s technology, roommate relationships are revolutionized by the proactive prevention of the inevitable tensions that arise when sharing a living space.
SPRING 2021 MENTORS
SPRING 2021 DEMO DAY
SPRING 2021 WINNERS
Tech Wise is a mobile and web application working to bridge the divide between seniors and modern technology.
Fall 2020 MENTORS
FALL 2020 DOJO COHORT
FALL 2020 DEMO DAY
FALL 2020 WINNERS
Telphi is a mobile web application that aggregates streaming data to offer its users the best possible content recommendations.
FALL 2019 MENTORS
FALL 2019 COHORT
FALL 2019 WINNERS
Kia & Ale created a program to help customers standardize their hair cutting services across multiple salons.
spring 2019 mentors
Zoe Beckman
Director
Sarah Berman
Mentor
Jack Schaeffer
Mentor
Isabella Espinosa
Mentor
spring 2019 cohort
spring 2019 winner
Pura is an antimicrobial phone case with minuscule amounts of silver where dead bacteria kills other bacteria. Created with flexible recycled bioplastic with injected antimicrobial filament and silver ions.
Fall 2018 COHORT
fall 2018 winner
RecycleBot would identify the type of trash in order to correctly place it in a recycle or trash bin. The camera would use Google’s Neural Network library to effectively identify all types of trash.
“Dojo Spring 2018 was a huge blast! We had a slightly smaller cohort but everyone thinks it was the best year we’ve had yet. We had ideas ranging from creative music hackathons to a better design for a walker. The winner of this semester’s Explore Grant was David Lu, who created a H2OK, a prototype for a small lens that would attach on a phone camera, and with the help of an associated app determine which bacteria were in water and how to treat the water to prevent disease.
Over the course of the semester, we had some old faces and a few new ones. Some of the notable speakers that came were Jennifer McFadden, a Yale professor who spoke about branding and marketing, Angela Blanchard, a longtime social entrepreneur at Brown, Jason Harry, who spoke about business models, and Alden Richards, who came back to Dojo for another year to talk about delivering a great pitch.”