Friday, April 22, 2016

Penn State President Eric J. Barron Cuts the Ribbon at Happy Valley Launchbox

Happy Valley Launchbox opened in downtown State College, PA, on Thursday March 31, 2016. Happy Valley Launchbox is a new facility that provides local entrepreneurs with free business startup training and work space.  Through the Happy Valley launchbox initiative, Penn State University gives local entrepreneurs the opportunity to put their business ideas into action.
Happy Valley Launchbox was created to encourage the citizens of State College to start businesses within their own community in order to create more jobs and improve the State College economy.
5 entrepreneurial teams were selected to participate in a 10 business startup training program. The 5 inaugural teams have access to free legal and marketing consulting, as well as free co-working space that is available 24 hours daily.
The 5 entrepreneurial teams and their business ideas are listed below:

Lockeroom: A platform for managing youth sports teams and leagues that automates and expedites registration, scheduling, and communication processes for team and league management.
Team: Brook Hart, Kurt Collins and Joe Gazza


Project Vive: A speech assistance technology that aims to give a voice to individuals who cannot talk by providing a low-cost, effective device.
Team: Mary Elizabeth McCulloch and Rodney Miller


ReDi Index: Guidance and methods to measure an organization’s recycling efforts with a two-number system to measure your improvement and progress toward zero waste. 
Team: Brendan Bagley, Al Matyasovsky and Shulin Chen


Scenomics: A software-as-service concept that helps healthcare organizations identify and quantify the value of their technology investments.
Team: Steve Haynes and Bryan Adams

Somnus: A medical device that can diagnose sleep apnea at home, instead of requiring patients to check into a sleep clinic.
Team: Nick LaBarbera and Michael McPhail

For more information on Happy Valley Launchbox, please check out the following links:


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