About

Mission

Tech@NYU is fostering a culture for students to build companies together.

Method

To get there, we need students continually building anything together. Why? It takes a lot of junk, a bag of bad ideas and shoddy execution scars to learn and internalize the nuances of great product and business. Tech@NYU is the sandbox that students need: a place to experiment, a forum for recognition, a classroom for discussion and learning.

Events are held throughout the academic year, open to all students, with a focus on consistency as to build community:

• Every week, we host HackDays and, in collaboration with Parsons The New School of Design, DesignDays. At HackDays, we teach new technologies, talk tech, code, and perhaps design. At DesignDays, we may design together, think, discuss, and address design problems, explore how designers can become entrepreneurs, and perhaps code.
• Every month, we hold DemoDays. Projects students have worked on, either at HackDays, DesignDays, or in their dormrooms get two to five minutes each to show the rest of the student population what they’ve produced. This is a celebration of sorts, a celebration of creation.
• Every semester, we host Startup Week, a weeklong event dedicated to the innovation occurring NYC and exposing students to startup culture.

We also engage regularly with a number of NYC entrepreneurs who serve as mentors to students. Only a couple years old, Tech@NYU is one of the most diverse, most forward-moving student organizations in NYC.

History

Tech@NYU was created in Fall 2009 to connect technical and non-technical NYU students interested in building technology startups. Incubated with the help of the NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Tech@NYU held its first event “Business Meets Tech” in October 2009 to help students form teams for the Stern Business Plan Competition. The event was attended by over 50 students and co-sponsored with the Masters Association for Computer Science, the Entrepreneurial Exchange Group (undergrad), & the Entrepreneur’s Exchange (MBA).

Now, our events are routinely attended by over 1000 members of the NYU undergrad and graduate community as well as entrepreneurs residing in New York City.  We are an officially recognized NYU All-Square club.