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The First Annual Cornell Startup Fair was Star Wars-Themed

Yesterday was Cornell’s first annual startup career fair.  Given Cornell’s recent winning of the NYC Tech Campus Bid (with which I was also heavily involved), the startup fair was very well timed. About a year ago, while meeting with some members of Cornell’s Career Services Offices, I was expressing my dismay at the fact that the ordinary career fairs at Cornell are all for huge companies, students must dress up, and you don’t really get the opportunity to connect with the companies you might be interested in working for.  So, after a few months of planning by lots of amazing people,  we made the startup career fair into a reality!  Approximately 40 startup companies (mostly from the NYC area) attended to recruit amazing Cornell talent.  During the course of the fair, I managed to simultaneously work as a volunteer and as a recruiter representing MakerBot Industries (I consult for them part time and worked for them last summer).  The fair was a huge success, with thousands of students packing the engineering atrium for about 5 hours.  Checkout the local news coverage below (I was featured in the piece) and the wrap-up video (featuring MakerBot) below.


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