This Memorial Day weekend, a group of friends and I climbed Mt. St. Helen’s for the very first time. What started as a crazy thought became a full-fledged mountain adventure. Hours of research, planning, and training later, we were on our way to summit Mt. St. Helen’s. This is a documentation of our journey along with some tips in case you’re planning on doing a similar climb soon.

Getting a permit

Before you get started planning anything, you need to a acquire a permit to climb the mountain. The rules around permit availability and reservation change year to year, so it’s good to…

This week we visited Centree, a Georgia Tech startup focused on developing an automated system to alert emergency medical services the moment a car crash occurs. The team is made of five second year students at Georgia Tech who all have a passion for helping people through technology. Let’s get into it!

The Mission Centree Technologies is focused on developing a network of auditory sensors that will be used to automatically and instantaneously detect car crashes on public roads. The product will be affixed on street corners, busy intersections, and even highways. When a car crash occurs, the technology detects…

This week we visited Stackfolio, a FinTech startup focused on creating a vibrant online marketplace for loan trading. Founded by a Georgia Tech alum, the company is situated right off of Georgia Tech campus at TechSquare Labs, an incubator and seed fund that promotes entrepreneurship in and around Atlanta. Allen Nance and Paul Judge, benefactors of innovation and self-proclaimed “serial entrepreneurs,” founded TechSquare Labs and are central to the story of Stackfolio’s inception. With that, let’s dive in!

The Mission Stackfolio is an online marketplace for loan trading between financial institutions and is powered by a data research platform. In…

This week, we’re focusing on a team of undergrads who’ve taken it upon themselves to solve an old industrial engineering problem with new and exciting technology. The name of the game is manual diagramming, a dreaded task in the industrial engineering field. The solution space contains machine learning, augmented reality, and a passion for theoretical mathematics. Let’s get started!

The Mission Oculogx (pronounced occu-logics) is a B2B startup aimed at optimizing logistical network operations through machine learning algorithms and augmented reality technology. Their goal is to create customized software solutions to help their clients execute planning operations more efficiently.

The…

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