Student Stories
Meet Hailey Breaker, a rising senior and co-founder of theinbetween2020, a digital media platform for womxn, femmes, and non-binary POC. Hailey is pursuing a major in Environmental Studies and a minor in Leadership Studies.
Nick Ennis is a rising senior studying Entrepreneurship with a dual major in Sales and International Business. He focused on his entrepreneurial career by attending numerous entrepreneurial-focused events and working for a startup company. Three years later, he is now the Head of Growth at Phood.
Over the past 10 weeks, a student-led team of three College of Arts and Sciences undergraduate students designed, launched and promoted the challenge, in addition to recruiting and guiding 52 undergraduate students—half of whom are enrolled in Arts and Sciences—through the execution of the challenge. The top three placing teams have been awarded $1,500 to seed implementation of their ideas and mentorship to develop their campus connection concepts throughout fall 2020.
Over a rapid, 10-week period, the Sko Together Challenge that invites ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder undergraduate students to imagine ways they can have a connected campus community experience no matter how we are living, learning and working through the pandemic.
What started as a senior-year capstone project at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder has now turned into a full-fledged fashion-focused app that founder Rohan Baishya and his small but motivated team have worked tirelessly on to launch by the end of the summer.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Engineering Plus senior Adrian Gutierrez designed an automated bag valve mask with the potential to help those affected by coronavirus in Mexico.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder athletic director Rick George announced Monday the creation of "Buffs with a Brand," a department program that will coordinate NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) programming for the school's student-athlete.
Carla Cruz, a junior majoring in integrative physiology, won ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder’s inaugural Map the System competition for her research on improving diabetes management in Latinx populations throughout the U.S. Map the System invites students to
Knowles, a finance and information management sophomore at the Leeds School of Business, recently co-founded GyftCO. They company connects struggling local businesses with a larger community by providing an outlet to sell e-gift cards.
Aaron Aboaf is leading a team of students on a million-dollar satellite development project to advance space communications technology — all from his childhood bedroom in Aurora, Colorado.