Connecting People and Ideas through PennLaunch
“Penn’s Weiss Tech House has created an online database for Penn students, staff, faculty and alumni who want to find people with specific skills for jobs or projects, or advertise their skills to others.
The Weiss Tech House put up PennLaunch the week of March 11 and began advertising it the week of March 18.” – Philadelphia Business Journal
PennLaunch was developed by “A group of individuals at the Weiss Tech House [so that] members of the Penn community can connect with each other to ‘develop projects, products, services, ideas, anything,” said Wharton and Engineering junior Abhiraj Modi, one of the PennLaunch creators (Daily Pennsylvanian).
Several members of the Penn community had discussed the idea of a collaboration platform for people with similar ideas at the “A Whole New Mind-Inspired Event entitled Creating and Collaborating across Universities” back in October. I’m really excited to see that someone has felt the need for a similar service and took the initiative to see it through – I’m especially excited to see that the initiative involves Penn students. Thanks to Mary Conger from GSE for sharing the following resource: New Penn website connects projects and people.
