This is Eduard R., a junior at Lubin. He's previously interned at the eLab (for credit) and is looking into live streaming audio, video, and screencasting on social media. He's a business management major and looking at either business analytics or finance.
This is Aissatou Gningue, international management major at Lubin, and fundraising and social impact director for the American Marketing Association student group at Pace. She's a regular user of the eLab, and pictured here, is using the media studio to record a charity fundraising video for Pace AMA for Marketing Week. She's also been profiled by the Lubin School of Business, Stay tuned to see future student group activities at the eLab!
First year Jayveon swings by the lab to discuss business and digital marketing.
Vijay comes from Seidenberg, looking for opportunities to develop. Our conversation ranged from coding to Hadoop to NoSQL databases.
Sri Nikhil is a student currently studying from India. He's working on a startup idea and spent over an hour on Zoom with the Assoc Dir, Jonathan Lee. They went over ideation, marketplace competitive analysis, and several points on web programming.
Sandesh and Swapnil are new Seidenberg graduates working with an international team on their new technology startup. They have much of the prototyping done, and came in to discuss business models, different types of company structures, and getting into the details of registering a company. Additionally they are exploring protecting intellectual property of their new enterprise.
Casey is a first year student taking advantage of the recording studio in the eLab. She streams on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and is working on social media marketing for herself.
Today I had Abhinav and Saahiil swing by the lab. Saahiil is a new CS student and Abhinav is graduating this December. Saahiil is eventually hoping to start a b2b business to digitize manual ordering, billing and inventory processes back home.
Last night a team of recent Pace grads won the Call for Code 2020 Global Challenge, which includes a $200,000 prize (https://developer.ibm.com/callforcode/2020-solutions/). They developed Agrolly, an application to help rural farmers in developing countries better cope with the environmental and business challenges of climate change. Team members are Chimka Munkhbayar ’20 (MBA in Entrepreneurial Studies), Manoela Morais ’20 (MS in Financial Risk Management), Ajinkya Datalkar ’20 (MS in Computer Science), and Helen Tsai ’21 (MS in Computer Science).
Bruce worked with Chimka on the underlying concept in the graduate Entrepreneurship Capstone course on Entrepreneurial Implementation during the Spring 2020 semester, which ran as a Tutorial. Additionally, Manoela and Ajinkya previously teamed up and won Second Place in the Pace Mobile App Design Contest 7.0/Hackathon (http://www.elab.nyc/pace-mobile-app-design-contest-7.0/Hackathon) and First Place in the Fifteenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (http://elab.nyc/pace-pitch-contest/The-Fifteenth-Annual-Pace-Pitch-Cont…). Helen worked on a different team, winning First Place, in the Pace Mobile App Design Contest 7.0/Hackathon, and participated with her team in the Fifteenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest.
This is Bjorn, Dyson student and filmmaker. He's wrapping on his second documentary and will need test audiences soon. Interested in helping, editing, learning about indie film, or just keeping tabs? Swing by the eLab or email jlee12@pace.edu to express interest.
William (Lubin) has an expressed interest in smart homes and automation. He's completed work on the Arduino kit and is now practicing assembling a quadrapod robot. The eLab, in consultation with Seidenberg, has a handful of relevant resources. If you're interested in joining William or forging your own path, see eLab.nyc or email jlee12@pace.edu.
William, a Lubin student interested in smart homes and robotics, gets a quick introduction from Seidenberg's Prof. Benjamin in the Robotics Lab. Some big arrivals are expected soon in the Robotics Lab!
