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Innovation Incubator

The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) seeks to catalyze creative and entrepreneurial thinking around a problem, need, or question, with the goal of fostering new solutions and opportunities.

Now in its second year occuring during 8-weeks of Haverford’s summer session, small student groups immerse themselves in a project of their own design, apply innovative, creative, professional, and business skills to develop a product demonstrating their learnings.

At the end of the program students have the skills to design, activate and guide a project through development and prototyping stages, applying necessary entrepreneurial skills to develop or determine market readiness and a roadmap to guide further development and exploration.

For more information about the Incubator and to preview the 2020 application, visit: hav.to/incubator. Applications will open in the late fall. Please contact HIP with any questions.


2020 Summer Innovation Cohort

INtern

Brittany He '21 & Julia Jones BMC '21

Ntern is a comprehensive online platform that allows college students to connect with busy professionals in their desired career area for small virtual jobs.

Article: INtern Connects Students with Virtual Job Opportunities

bentbox

Margaret Chen '21 & Sara Matasuma '20

bentbox works with healthy food establishment chains by providing them reusable containers for their to-go orders. After customers use our boxes, they gain reward points and can return the containers to outdoor receptacles that we take to be cleaned and sanitized in an offsite location.

Article: Bentbox Takes Aim at Takeout Container Waste


2019 Summer Innovation Cohort

Open House

For local community groups and individuals who require well-designed, affordable, and flexible spaces, Open House is a collaborative building system that employs accessible design and fabrication technologies to produce high-quality, modular structures for a variety of uses.

Article: Open House Team Builds Open Source Architecture

Gradual

Gradual is a flexible and dynamic course mapping tool that helps students visualize their academic path to graduation.

Article: Gradual Makes Rapid Progress in the Innovation Incubator


2018 Pilot Cohort

Where are they now?

Beyond the Bell Tours: Inclusive History Tours of Philadelphia

A man gestures toward the cityscape behind him during a tour session

Joey Leroux '18 from Beyond the Bell Tours, leads an Alumni Day tour in Philadelphia. Photo: Alexandra Iglesia '21

We are a social enterprise committed to putting the people back into people’s history by creating tours that highlight marginalized communities, peoples and histories.

Visit Beyond the Bell Tours

Dibs: Solving the Problem of Waste at Colleges

Dibs founders Ken Ruto and Ahmed Ishtiaque.

In the spring of 2019, the Dibs team had a successful Haverford-facing launch of Dibs, a website allowing students to easily buy, sell, and give away items on campus with the goal of reducing waste.

Watch "Dibs: Solving the Problem of Waste in Colleges"

HIP - Innovations Incubator - Archive

  • 2018 Pilot Cohort Details

    In the spring semester of 2018, HIP put out a call for applicants to the summer incubator. To apply, students outlined a problem they wished to solve and a proposed solution to be the focus of their collaborative project. Types of projects for consideration were broadly defined, allowing for a range of ideas and submissions as the end result could take the form of a marketable product, a creative work for public release, an organization or company, or another form of social innovation.

    The two teams chosen for the pilot year came to the table with very different concepts.

    The Dibs team, all rising Juniors in Computer Science, developed an online platform to connect and facilitate free exchange and sharing between individuals within a community.

    The Beyond the Bell team, recent graduates, focused on putting the people back into people’s history by creating walking tours in the Philadelphia area by highlighting marginalized communities, peoples and histories.

    The Innovation Incubator ran for 8-weeks with support from dedicated mentors, advisors, skill-building workshops in areas around entrepreneurial pursuits, funding for job and educational materials, and professional consults from our wonderful alumni network who provided legal and startup-related insights to help students further hone their ideas. Throughout the teams learned and practiced moving their project through discrete stages of planning, testing, and implementation.

    At the end of the program, both teams gave their final pitch presentations. They were asked to weave together the following in a flow that best suited the narrative of their work: Elevator Pitch & Value Proposition, Product Demo, Business Model (addressing customers & revenue stream opportunities), Next Steps, Needs/Ask (what resources would be valuable if they wanted to continue this work), Lessons Learned/Individual Reflection (practical lessons learned, as well as self-reflections on what the work meant to them on a personal level).

    Final Presentations

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