by Madeline Williams | May 12, 2018 | Student Voice, VentureLab
After a long week of preparation and rehearsing, the Graphrite team pitched a year’s worth of product and business development to a panel of four judges. We were honored to be the recipients of $7,000 from the competition for the prospect of officially launching...
by Madeline Williams | May 11, 2018 | Student Voice, VentureLab
Many startups face a variety of different issues in their first seasons of existence but in our case it boils down to one word, Time. There are only 24 hours in the day and nothing will remind you of this fact more until you join a startup. The past few months...
by Madeline Williams | Apr 30, 2018 | Student Voice, VentureLab
It is not a new concept to look back or review our past decisions and understand their outcomes but what would it look like to look back on a yearly, weekly, or daily basis, really understanding our decisions, why we made them, and if they were worth it. In a recent...
by Madeline Williams | Apr 19, 2018 | Student Voice, VentureLab
The Graphrite was first by Keith Meinkrantz, a senior mechanical engineer, to aid in daily graphing and sketching demanded by his classes. It first made its debut in the Spring of 2017 in the Maker’s Design Competition where it took first place and since then...
by Madeline Williams | Mar 21, 2018 | Student Voice, VentureLab
The Graphrite was a tool that the founding member, Keith Meikrantz, a senior mechanical engineer, created in order to sketch graphs for problems on homework and exams. Over the past year a team has formed around Keith’s idea which includes a computer engineering lead,...