About the I³ Harvard College Innovation Challenge
The I³ Harvard College Innovation Challenge develops, showcases and rewards innovative student ventures in two areas:
Each track requires the completion of a common online application that includes an executive summary and a detailed project proposal.
I³ Organizers
Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. (HSA)
HSA is the largest student-run corporation in the world. The organization was founded in 1957 to help defray rising tuition costs while providing practical business experience and supplying valuable, necessary services to the Harvard community. It carries out its mission by presenting myriad diverse opportunities with one objective in common: to provide the highest quality jobs available to Harvard students. HSA is currently comprised of seven agencies: Harvard Distribution Services, Harvard Student Resources, HSA Cleaners, HSA Publications, HSA Dorm Store, Let's Go Publications, Cronin Center for Enterprise, and The Harvard Shop.
Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH)
TECH's mission is to advance the understanding and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship. It researches, designs and delivers project-based experiential innovation education and provides both a real and virtual space for students, faculty, alumni, and industry leaders to learn together, collaborate, and innovate. TECH operates from within the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - an interdisciplinary science and technology institution that draws from its close connection to Harvard's undergraduate liberal arts tradition and its graduate schools - and is supported by the Lumry Family endowment for technology and entrepreneurship.
Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum (HCEF)
The Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum (HCEF) is an independent student-run organization supported by TECH that works to help students channel their creativity toward launching a successful enterprise. HCEF hosts regular events to provide entrepreneurially minded students with resources, including speaker dinners, technology workshops, networking events, etc. to generate the ideal environment for creative success.
Harvard undergraduates of all interests and concentrations (as well as entrepreneurs from across Boston and beyond who have at least one Harvard College student on their team) compete annually to win summer funding and space by submitting plans for projects in the following two tracks:
The I³ Innovation Challenge is organized by the Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, and the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum.