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Students arrive at Iowa State with great ideas. As they meet each other and connect with Iowa State faculty and resources, those ideas are given the opportunity to become life-changing, world-improving realities.

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Skylar dressing a mannequin wearing her designs


IMPACT THAT STICKS

Iowa State empowered Skylar Bundridge to turn a hobby designing stickers and T-shirts into a full-fledged business — and turned her into a full-fledged entrepreneur.

Three members of the Casmium app team, posing with laptop and baseball bats


STATS THAT TRACK

When their high school’s baseball coach needed an easy approach to statistics collection and analysis, these innovative Iowa State students stepped up to the plate with a mobile app designed to meet the coach’s needs.

Collin and Jacob from Campus Town Trading


FINANCIAL LITERACY

Collin Gauck and Jason Kautman brought their business idea to Iowa State, where they found the support and resources to help them nurture it — and bring out their inner innovator and entrepreneur.


IN-THE-FIELD SOLUTIONS

The Student Design Consultancy program is among dozens of ways at Iowa State for design students like Aleka Hickman to innovate — and make a difference in the world while they’re doing it.

HELP MOVE WHAT MATTERS

You can move lives forward. When you support students, you prepare them to lead, create and innovate for our future. Together, we can transform the landscape of what’s possible.

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