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michael's update #9

summer 2023

michael raspuzzi
Oct 3, 2023
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hello!

here's a seasonal update with three things:

  1. startup life: 2 week summer program done and onto larger product build

  2. building community: ai hardware hack

  3. miscellany: featured blog writing in education

my goal is to share important updates from the last few months. i like a menu format so if you’re curious for more, then i linked other things to explore for each.

enjoy,

michael

🌊


1. startup life: 2 week summer program done and onto larger product build

we designed and launched a new climate tech program in a month to test a new model for collge aged students.

we ran a ten day program to go 0 to 1 in different areas of climate tech exploring net zero materials, advancements in fusion, applications in synbio, and more.

overall, it worked better than expected: great experience (4.6/5) and solid progress in two weeks with no background experience.

here’s what students had to say:

  • “awesome!” eric schmidt funded global rise scholar

  • “amazing experience.” stanford undergrad

  • “i feel like i've learned more in this week than i have all summer.” cs student at waterloo

what i personally liked: earlier stage support exploring what 10x education looks like. up next, we’ll keep focusing on this stage for 18-25 year olds to see what we can build out

what that means for what’s next: we’re exploring how to double down on a better winter program with more students as well as test some ai coaching

check out all student projects and more full debrief in the write up below.

read more

if you know a college aged student who may enjoy a winter explore program, they can request an invite here.

and if you want to check out individual student reflections on their individual experience, then check out these pieces:

Allison's Notes
Exploring the next big thing in climate tech 🌎
Welcome everybody🎉 I’m Allison, a Peruvian Rise Global Winner and incoming student at UCSD interested in climate change and nanotech. If you want to be updated of my day to day, follow me on Instagram…
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3 months ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · Allison Dominguez
bits and bytes
🎢this is the next big thing in climate tech.
hey! welcome to my newsletter.🌿 in case you do not know me: i’m mafer, an 18-year-old peruvian incoming freshman at stanford university, climate tech enthusiast and boba tea connoisseur. i’m very glad to have you here…
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3 months ago · 4 likes · maria fernanda velasquez
Ahnaaf’s Life Update
Reflecting On My Time in Ari Global
After spending more than a year outside of any accelerator or development programs, I joined Ari Global’s “next big thing” cohort, which was a 2-week sprint to figure out what was the next biggest thing in climate tech. In those two weeks, I feel like I grew more than I have in the last 2 months. By the end of it, I began building a project to make carb…
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3 months ago · 2 likes · Ahnaaf (🧠,🧠)

2. building community: ai hardware hack

the spring hack was so good, we had to run another one. this time with robots and the theme of ai in motion.

we had the spot dog, ur arms, roombas and more with 45 hackers across open ai, tesla, deep mind, + cal in the machine learning space and founders in the hardware space to ship in 24 hours. judges had backgrounds from google x, angel investing, and stanford.

it truly felt like tasting the future. teams of 3-6 shipped more in a weekend than teams 5x bigger with more time.

highlights included:

  • smart nursing companion for aging in place population. imagine being able to call, discuss, and get support from a medical cabinet

  • roomba + camera + gaussian splat = 3d mapping of rooms in ~30 images

  • robotic dog as seeing eye dog for the visually impaired

check out recap here

other higlights in community building include hosting:

  • biotech x hardware demo for sf hardware meetup with lab automation startup and pathogen detector for crops

  • dog brain computer interfaces, an interesting talk on the future of interspecies communication

  • collaborative events with onshape’s ceo and kickstarter’s after party in tech crunch disrupt


3. miscellany: featured blog writing in education

this summer, i focused on getting thoughts to publish with weekly writings in education.

some were ama style reflecting from coaching calls like:

michael's writing
ama #4 - 3x3 goal setting
with hundreds of hours spent on coaching calls with ambitious young people, i want to open source some perspective with the intention of sharing insights i wish i had earlier. background context for this question: starting a new term with the fall term beginning, there are new decisions to make …
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2 months ago · 8 likes · michael raspuzzi

other were personally more reflective, like starting a new decade:

michael's writing
10 years of perspective in 1 analogy
“🏇 learn how to ride the horse in the direction it’s moving.” this was an analogy first used by a 72 year old developmental psychologist over dinner with humans in their 30s in san francisco. as i begin into this decade, it…
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3 months ago · 12 likes · 5 comments · michael raspuzzi

and some strategically playful in education, like this one:

michael's writing
exploring a new model in higher ed (pt.1)
“what are your personal views of consciousness, specifically as it relates to information packing at a quanta level? i started an internship at zapata computing and have been thinking about the hardware-software divide in quantum computing wondering if this may hold the key.” asked a curious 17 year old…
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2 months ago · 1 like · 6 comments · michael raspuzzi

bonus: i also helped cole paint his first tree mural. 20ft tree in 2 days. it was fun to include an art project, especially one that’s used as a backdrop for all of studio 45 events.

🌊 forward onwards,

michael

ps. if you made it this far, you know what's up: recipe inspiration for the season. this walnut, pecorino, mint pasta was a fun one.

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