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- I spent three years
in a boarding school in New Hampshire
and I pretty much was surrounded by forests
and nothing but forests,
so when I was applying to college,
I knew I wanted a change of environment
and it was just natural to look into New York City
as one of the options.
I knew that I was interested in business,
and when I discovered NYU
and their sort of emphasis on entrepreneurship
and their great business school,
it was just a no-brainer to definitely apply here.
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- My name is Tim
and I'm an undergraduate student
at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
I concentrate in entrepreneurship and programming.
Coming all the way from Kazakhstan,
I spent couple years in boarding school,
and now loving my NYU experience.
Aside from studies,
I started a sports technology company
called Fit A.I,
and I also manage awesome start-up programs,
of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Association.
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So this is the Leslie Entrepreneurship Lab at NYU,
a co-working space that's dedicated to help
student entrepreneurs with resources and mentorship
and funding and different programs.
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This is the main floor of the lab.
There's just a lot of awesome co-working spaces
where start-ups and teammates
usually get together and get a lot of work done.
This is a start-up board
where people look for a teammate
by placing a posting
and saying what skills do they need
and what skills do they got.
So a lot of teams do get matched here.
My first teammates, they saw my post
and then we kind of started working together
competing in competitions,
so this wall is incredible.
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So here we have a column that highlights
a lot of the start-ups
that were founded by NYU alums
or actually founded at NYU,
and this includes great companies
like Pinterest and Twitter.
A great example here is the Vengo machine,
and as an NYU MBA student,
Brian had an idea to shrink vending
and basically built this machine
which allows you to select and get several items
that are stored inside.
And then he went on to Shark Tank
and raised $2,000,000.
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So this is the prototyping little lab here.
We have a laser cutter.
We have a Mojo 3D printer,
a BotFactory electronics printer,
and a Ultimaker 3D printer.
So that space is used by students for projects,
for physical products,
and for just creating awesome prototypes.
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This is actually our prototype
where we have a board with motion sensor solars
and a battery,
and also a casing 3D printed.
Fit A.I is a sports technology company
for athletic facilities
that allows coaches and athletes
to quantify weight lifting.
So that would actually click onto the bar,
and then like basically record movement
with the motion sensors on board.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Studies
kind of allows you to do whatever you want.
Being that Fit A.I is a technology company,
I thought it just was appropriate
to merge business courses with computer science courses.
Not in a sense of majoring in management
and minoring in computer science.
That's just like a larger structure
with a smaller structure.
In Gallatin, it's free-for-all.
I mean, I can pick out relevant business courses,
pick out relevant computer science courses.
To me, it's been incredible.
So much flexibility is just what I exactly wanted
in an education system.
NYU has been phenomenal in supporting Fit A.I.
This place gave us about $2,000 to prototype.
An introduction to amazing people,
introduction to amazing mentors.
NYU is the place where I met my teammates.
NYU is the place where I competed in competitions,
I won some money here and there.
NYU serves as an incredible launch pad,
an incredible support system,
an incredible resource.
There's just unlimited possibility.
And I think being at NYU
and taking advantage of that resource
has just been amazing for me.
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