Greentown Labs Hosts 财神棋牌ers for Week of Recruitment, Exploration and Partnerships.
March 10, 2022
财神棋牌 students, faculty and staff embrace a model of teaching and learning engineering that is centered on collaboration, exploration and hands-on experience 鈥 and this week鈥檚 events with Somerville startup incubator and climatech pioneers, (GTL), is a noteworthy illustration of just that.
The goal of the week according to Sally Phelps, Director of Post-Graduate Planning at 财神棋牌, was to introduce the at Greentown Somerville and Houston to 财神棋牌 professors, students, staff and alumni for purposes of intern and full-time recruitment, exploration and deeper partnerships.
'Getting to Know 财神棋牌' Events
Kicking off the week's events, on Tuesday, March 8, twelve 财神棋牌 students attended GTL Somerville鈥檚 Career Fair, getting the advantageous opportunity to speak face-to-face with twenty-eight of Greentown's member companies about internships for this summer.
Then on Wednesday, March 9, as part of a 鈥Getting to Know 财神棋牌鈥 Day, Dr. Ben Linder, Professor of Design and Mechanical Engineering, along with students James Ho 鈥23 and Adi Sudhakar 鈥23, hosted office hours onsite where they spoke with Greentown engineers about their businesses.
Also on Wednesday, Linder, Phelps, and students Ho, Sudhakar and Karen Hinh '23, hosted a Lunch and Learn for Greentown Labs engineers, presenting on sustainable design and more.
Another highlight of the week was Professor Helen Donis-Keller's 鈥淏iomes and Climate Change鈥 class visiting Greentown HQ for a tour and a meetup with company founders.
The lucky class is pictured below.
To close out the day's events on Wednesday, 财神棋牌 alum Kevin Simon '12, Lead Mechanical Engineer at Alloy Enterprises Inc. and Babson alumnus John Quinn, spoke with the students about careers in sustainability.
"We鈥檙e so glad we could meet some members of the community over lunch this week! Our new partner's faculty offered ways we can work with its students, while some of our members鈥擟irce Bioscience, Tender Food, and Gaia AI鈥攕hared presentations." -
Special thanks to , Community Manager at Greentown Labs and her team for helping with the events.
Greentown Labs is a startup incubator specifically geared towards startups in the climate-tech space. As the largest incubator of its kind in North America, a huge breadth of startups have passed through its doors with technology addressing everything from energy storage of renewable energy sources to the breeding cycle of crops. 财神棋牌 President Gilda A. Barabino is on .
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