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Launched out of the E. A. Fernandez IDEA Factory, xFoundry is driven by a singular mission: to tackle grand challenges through the power of entrepreneurship and multidisciplinary collaboration.
We believe in empowering students to become agents of change, capable of addressing complex problems and making a tangible impact on the world.
The School Safety Xperience competition provides students with the opportunity to showcase their innovative solutions to enhance safety in schools.
Watch the recap of the sales pitch milestone, where teams present their ideas, solutions, and prototypes to industry professionals. This video highlights the creativity, dedication, and collaboration that go into each project.
These 15-month multidisciplinary competitions are designed for passionate students who want to address societal challenges by creating sustainable ventures.
Students are taken through the founder's mindset where they'll build upon skills of resilience, adaptability, and risk tolerance, all while solving grand challenges.
The Xperience competitions are the cornerstone of xFoundry's mission to address specific grand challenges.
Each competition features:
For every dollar invested in a competition, there's a potential return of $3.50 in value created, showcasing the financial efficacy of these initiatives1.
The competitive atmosphere stimulates more innovative and out-of-the-box thinking among participants, driving significant advancements in problem-solving1.
Competitions can lead to solutions being developed five times faster than traditional R&D approaches, enhancing the speed of innovation2.
The collaborative effort of multiple teams addressing the same challenge significantly increases the chances of breakthrough solutions. This effect is amplified in competitions where diverse approaches can converge on a common problem3.
We tackle global challenges across seven distinct domains through collaboration and entrepreneurship, shaping a brighter future for generations to come.
