Representing UCF\u2019s commitment to interdisciplinary innovation, Wachob (mathematics) and Carpenter (engineering) are commercializing university research with support from the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the UpStarts Student Venture Accelerator. Their success highlights the impact of UCF\u2019s growing entrepreneurial ecosystem\u2014including the Blackstone LaunchPad and campus-wide venture programs\u2014which have engaged over 8,000 students and helped launch multiple student-led startups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jonathan Wachob and Brandon Carpenter earned first place at the Florida Venture Conference Statewide Collegiate Business Plan Competition with their venture, Feynman Nano, which develops nanostructures to improve solar panel efficiency. This win follows their second-place finish at the UCF Joust New Venture Challenge, marking the second consecutive week a UCF team has secured a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.serverizz.com\/clientele\/ucf\/cel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}