The Techcelerator is designed to enhance student prototyping skills and problem solving skills, offering funding for top students or student teams along with exclusive access to UTS world-class facilities and mentors.
Techcelerator
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The UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT is funding students or student teams to participate in the Techcelerator, a Deep Tech Early-Stage Accelerator designed to enhance student prototyping skills.
This free, co-curricular, 4-month program is focused on facilitating the development of a working prototype. Participants are given access to UTS's world-class facilities, mentors, technical experts and funding to enable prototyping and market testing of deep technologies.
Up to $10,000 of funding is awarded to the top students or student teams competing in the Techcelerator program. Additionally, there will be surprising prizes at the demo-day presentations.
Benefits
The program offers students the opportunity to improve their prototyping and customer validation skills. All Techcelerator program activities are free to students and do not take any equity from their project.
Up to $ 10,000 in funding for their project
Guidance from expert staff, industry leaders and startup founders
Access to UTS facilities and funding for supplies and prototyping services
Techcelerator timeline
Techcelerator timeline – text-only version
June - December of any year
What is deep technology?
Here's the text-only version of this deep tech diagram
Deep technology, also known as deep tech, is the innovative design, deployment, use or development of technologies from a variety of engineering and information technology disciplines such as, but not limited to, these domains:
- additive manufacturing
- AI
- AR/VR
- big data
- bioengineering
- blockchain
- cloud and security
- computer graphics and animation
- interaction design
- IoT
- machine learning
- mechatronics
- quantum computing
- robotics
- software
- sustainable technologies
Techcelerator team
Director, Techcelerator: Professor Dilek Cetindamar Kozanoglu
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