A Student Team’s Lifesaving Technology
Acoustic Shield, Startup Aggieland’s first E-Team, is one of 50 E-Teams chosen to receive a $5,000 grant from VentureWell. VentureWell defines an E-Team – the “E” stands for entrepreneurship – as a multidisciplinary group of students, faculty and industry mentors collaborating to bring a technology to market.
Luke Neese, a philosophy major with a pre-law focus, and his wife Virginia, a nutrition major at Texas A&M, co-founded Acoustic Shield with Liang Ge, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering. They met at 3-Day Startup, a program hosted at Startup Aggieland by the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship (CNVE) at Mays Business School. Their venture is an indoor gunshot detection system.
VentureWell’s E-Team Program helps college students commercialize technology ideas. Startup Aggieland prepares students to enter programs such as VentureWell and the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps.
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This article originally appeared in Mays Impacts.
