by Austin Zick | Apr 18, 2018 | VentureLab
The Graphrite is designed specifically for use by engineering students, the aim being to combine different graphing tools into a single compact device. Invented by Keith Meikrantz, an engineering student here at Grove City College, it’s meant for the same. The reviews...
by Andrew Graber | Apr 17, 2018 | Challenge & Inspire, Speaker Series, Student Voice, VentureLab
Last week Gret Glyer came to speak at Grove City. Gret graduated from Grove City College in 2012. He was an entrepreneurship major and quickly went on to start his own business. During his talk, Gret outlined a bit of his story. The few years after he graduated were...
by Andrew Graber | Apr 8, 2018 | VentureLab
Recently I had the opportunity to hear my co-founder, Mahlon Stoltz play one of our signature Māhlon cajons in an acoustic gig. Mahlon was on a 10-day tour with Nashville country artist, Kolby Oakley. He’d been playing with Kolby on tour for the past year or so....
by Levi Roberts | Mar 25, 2018 | Student Voice, VentureLab
Hey there! My name is Levi & I’m a co-founder of the military upcycling startup Chute. As we approach our first round of product testing scheduled for next week, let’s take a moment to reflect on how exactly we got here. Enter mid-October 2017 on a typical...
by Levi Roberts | Mar 21, 2018 | Student Voice, Uncategorized, VentureLab
Do you see the tsunami of opportunity approaching? I’m speaking, of course, of the Social Entrepreneurship Revolution. Generations Y and Z created a trend during the 2010’s of socially conscious for-profit businesses. Companies like Warby Parker and...
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,...