Student Entrepreneurship Program (SEP)

Overview

The Student Entrepreneurship Program (SEP) is a 360-degree development program for future technology leaders and ​ entrepreneurs. It is dedicated to encouraging CCDS students’ innovation spirits, and nurturing their leadership and entrepreneurial skills by providing with SEP-only resources and practices.  The entrepreneurship program, open to all students, engages in helping students grow their ventures from vision to action, and at any stage of development. We encourage student teams who are committed to building their ventures to apply for the entrepreneurship program. 

Innovation Lab also sets up a special Student Competition Fund, providing support for students to innovate, to participate in international technology competitions, and to communicate with global students and experts. 

Benefits

All accepted SEP teams will receive:

  • Support for educational trainings: seminars and workshops;
  • Technological and entrepreneurial guidance from mentors in the school and/or industry; and
  • Access to advanced facilities in the Innovation Lab.
 
In addition, accepted SEP teams receive:

  • Financial funding;
  • Support in commercialization, such as business plan pitching and business development, and in participating international competitions and/or hackathons.

Requirements

For the entrepreneurship program, applications only from teams of 2-5 matriculated NTU students, at least 50% of whom from CCDS are accepted. Current graduate applicants must obtain their supervisors’ approval. Teams should:

  • Dedicate at least 10 hours per week to advancing the venture; and
  • Provide monthly updates on their progress to their mentors and/or Innovation Lab staff over the lifecycle of the venture;
  • Develop their ideas into MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) by the end of the first year, and have workable business plans and/or get other venture funding.

Student Competition Fund is open to all CCDS students.

Application

Deadline

​Application opens half-yearly. Applicants should submit their application every half-yearly. SEP admission decisions will be emailed to the team lead within one month after the deadline. 

Application Form

DOWNLOAD the Entrepreneurship Application Form. 

Application for the Student Competition Fund

​Students who will participate in technology competitions can fill in the Competition Registration Form (DOWNLOAD) and email to Mr. TEO Choo Eng ([email protected]) for record. Please also keep all registration confirmation email/letter, original relevant receipts and bank statement(s), etc. 

After the competition, students can report the result to Mr. TEO Choo Eng ([email protected]) with all supporting documents. The review committee will review the results and all supporting documents. Once approved, student(s) can submit the reimb​ursement claim to the school. 

Selected Competition List 

​M​icrosoft Imagine Cup ​
​ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, ICPC
The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge
World Robot Conference-Contest 2018 Beijing ​
​AI Challenger ​
​RoboCup ​
​2018 Data Science Bowl ​
​Google Cloud & NCAA ML ​​Competition 2018 ​

 

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