Student Groups
There are many student organizations committed to various aspects of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Some are limited to undergraduate or graduate student participation, and some support all. These opportunities allow students to gain experience and make valuable interdisciplinary connections on- and off-campus.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Student Organizations at WashU:
BALSA FOUNDATION
Focuses on helping individuals start businesses as The BALSA Group’s philanthropic arm. It is founded and run by WUSTL grad students and postdoctoral fellows and staff.
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCE ADVISING (BALSA) GROUP
Provides short-term consulting services to companies ranging from small start-ups to large corporations. It is a non-profit organization founded and led by WUSTL graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
CONSULT YOUR COMMUNITY
Consult Your Community is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that inspires communities into action. Through semester-long, skills-based consulting projects, we mobilize college students to leverage their education, digital fluency, mentorship networks, and knowledge as customers to empower small business owners and drive change in their communities.
DESIGN FOR AMERICA (DFA)
A group of makers, thinkers, and doers who take on projects that solve problems using human-centered design. DFA develops a pipeline of leaders of innovation and creates impact through the implementation of DFA projects.
ENGINEERING TEST KITCHEN (ETK)
Provides high quality student teams, spanning engineering disciplines, to take on projects. Companies of all sizes, universities, and non-profit organizations have benefitted from the focus and insight of skilled ETK members.
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS
Partners with developing communities to improve their quality of life through the implementation of environmentally sustainable, equitable, and economical engineering projects while developing internationally responsible engineers and engineering students.
ENTREPRENEUR AND VENTURE CAPITAL ASSOCIATION (EVCA)
Aims to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit of the St. Louis Community through the WUSTL MBA program.
GOOGLE DEVELOPERS CLUB
A student club for students interested in Google developer technologies.
INSITE NO CODE GROUP
InSite allows students of all interests and academic backgrounds to join together and build innovative apps as a collaborative team through non-coding softwares.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SOCIETY
Focuses on the study of intellectual property law. They sponsor events throughout the semester including guest speakers, study breaks, movie nights, and happy hour.
NET IMPACT
Promotes using the power of business to create a better world. They explore businesses doing leading-edge work to build sustainable businesses that outperform their peers and establish a long-term competitive advantage.
The Skandalaris Think Tank is our new name for the Skandalaris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Club. The Think Tank brings together students from all schools to create solutions to problems they feel passionately about while acquiring and using entrepreneurship skills and resources from the Skandalaris Center.
SLING HEALTH
Identifies and designs solutions to problems in healthcare and small interdisciplinary and multi-level teams in an aggressive, but efficient, 14-week design process. Outcomes include patents, conference & journal papers, licensing deals, and start-ups.
TAMID
TAMID integrates the next generations of entrepreneurs and business professionals with Israel through comprehensive education curriculum, pro-bono consulting for Israeli startups, capital market investment research, and an opportunity for a summer internship program in Israel. TAMID at WashU aims to attract motivated and engaged student leaders who are eager to learn and to participate in hands-on learning, both on and off-campus.
W-BLOCK
Student-run organization that's fully-focused on blockchain technology and its associated fields. W-BLOCK aims to grow connections and future tech intelligence at WashU through education, community, and innovative technology.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ENTREPRENEUR SOCIETY
Promotes entrepreneurship on WashU’s campus. We aim to do this through workshops educating members about entrepreneurship, guest speakers who work in the startup and venture capital communities, and participation in startup competitions throughout the country. With the Entrepreneur Society’s resources, we hope that our members will be able to pursue their ventures, having the ability to secure seed funding through our relationships.
XCCELERATE (FORMERLY Y’S THOUGHTS)
Xccelerate has an overarching goal of creating a community of student entrepreneurs. We achieve this goal by hosting a semester-long challenge to develop something from ideation through prototyping with the hopes of it becoming a real business. We also bring in Wash U students who own businesses to speak about their successes and attend events in the greater St. Louis entrepreneurial community.