{"id":2793,"date":"2019-03-02T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2024-07-24T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:54:53","slug":"summer-accelerator-2019-applications-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/summer-accelerator-2019-applications-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Accelerator 2019 Applications Open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/signature-programs\/summer-accelerator\/\"> Summer Accelerator<\/a>, Innovate@BU&#8217;s core summer program, applications are open! Through the 10-week guided program, current BU students and recent alumni can start transforming their early-stage venture ideas into impact. Last year, Innovate@BU received over 60 applications for one of the 16 program spots.<\/p>\n<p>Benefits of the program include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$10,000 stipend per team.<\/li>\n<li>Weekly workshops and professional development events.<\/li>\n<li>Mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs.<\/li>\n<li><span>Final Showcase event to a panel of investors and community members.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Workspace in the BUild Lab IDG Capital Student Innovation Center.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/signature-programs\/summer-accelerator\/\">Applications<\/a> are open between Saturday, March 2 &#8211; Wednesday, March 20, 5pm EST.<\/p>\n<p>Students and recent alumni that are interested\u00a0in learning more about the program and application process are encouraged to attend our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/summer-accelerator-info-session-tickets-56579419567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Summer Accelerator Info Session on Wednesday, March 6.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and recent alumni can apply to the 2019 Summer Accelerator through March 20, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8874,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10645,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/10645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}