Hi - good evening.
My name is Mario Delgado, one of the co-founders of Lucky Mug. I graduated in January with a BA in Architecture and will soon be joining Lehigh’s PhD program in Learning Sciences and Technology. Here with me today is my co-founder Aaron Wilensky, a Junior Political Science Major. The other 2 founding members could not be in attendance tonight. Patrick Lee is a Sophomore Economics Major and Jake Kennon is a Junior International Relations and Economics double major currently studying abroad in Denmark.
My name is Mario Delgado, one of the co-founders of Lucky Mug. I graduated in January with a BA in Architecture and will soon be joining Lehigh’s PhD program in Learning Sciences and Technology. Here with me today is my co-founder Aaron Wilensky, a Junior Political Science Major. The other 2 founding members could not be in attendance tonight. Patrick Lee is a Sophomore Economics Major and Jake Kennon is a Junior International Relations and Economics double major currently studying abroad in Denmark.
I would first like to thank the Baker Institute for their generous award. Not only has your initial grant helped us start our company, your continued mentoring and support will be influential in our future success. I would also like to thank the South Mountain College program and the College of Arts and Sciences. We attribute the program’s unique ability to allow research across disciplines to giving us the inspiration to work together on a project that would eventually lead to our company’s formation.
Lucky Mug's primary research and development has a singular goal: to allow new ways for digital information to interact with our physical environment. Lucky Mug's development team is designing a more natural and intuitive way to interact with our data using readily available hardware and software. We want to make exploration of new places faster, make the access of information to the user seamless and intuitive, and allow you to experience and learn more about the world than ever before.
Over the next few months we will be ramping up production of our first application. It's current name is CampusView, and to add an element of surprise, that is all we will say at this point. We have been holding meetings with various members of the Lehigh community to help us develop our product with our target market in mind. We are still on schedule to begin testing the software sometime this summer, with a public release towards August or September.
In closing, I would like to challenge all the winners tonight to continue fostering the entrepreneurial spirit within the Baker Institute and the greater Lehigh community. The Baker Institute is well on its way to becoming one of the best programs of its kind, and our ideas and passions will only help make this program stronger.The Entrepreneurial spirit is what drives innovation and success in this country. It is thanks to programs and groups like the Baker Institute that that innovation is sustained and fostered. The rewards and successes from the Baker Institute and those involved will have a lasting impact, hopefully not just for us, but for all the people involved in entrepreneurship activities here at Lehigh.
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