Other Projects
The PorterShed team regularly collaborate with partners in the tech and startup ecosystem to deliver interesting projects and programmes. See some of the other projects we’ve been involved with below.
Women’s Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
The Women’s Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, run by EIT Health is a five-week programme that links early-stage, women-led or co-led healthcare start-ups to a fantastic community of mentors so that participants can learn, grow, and succeed on their journeys.
The PorterShed has delivered this programme in the past, and it offered a brilliant way for women-powered start-ups in the healthcare sector to really flourish. The bootcamp offers a way to identify and leverage the diversity that exists among your company’s leadership, helping to achieve brilliant results.
i2i
The i2i Project brought together 5 Higher Education Institutes and 8 non-academic partners across 5 entrepreneurial regions around Europe, in order to increase the entrepreneurial capacity, thinking, and output. Through i2i the PorterShed has delivered the Student Entrepreneur Mentoring Handbook, Canvas and training, as well as the i2i Startup Explorer Weekend.
ARISE
The PorterShed has close ties with the Western Development Commission, and liaise with them on certain projects. For the Awareness Raising Initiative for Social Enterprise scheme (ARISE), we organised a series of events – creating complementary content including case studies and videos – across the west that shone a positive light on social enterprise, featuring prominent stakeholders in that sector.
Leaving Cert Hackathon
When Ross Conboy in The Bish approached us with an idea to run a Hackathon for the new Leaving Cert Computer Science Project, we jumped at the chance to help! The inaugural Leaving Cert Hackathon was held in January 2024, with schools from Galway and Offaly participating, and mentors joining from the Galway tech ecosystem including Genesys, IBM, and Fidelity. But this is only just the beginning…
STEMblem Competition
To celebrate their 10th birthday the Prototype People at Mint-Tek posed a great challenge to Galway Transition Year students: design a new emblem for St. Patrick’s Day, powered by electronic design! Kicking off with a one-day Workshop at PorterShed, students learned the basics of Business Planning, Product Design, and Product Costing, with speakers from the European Space Agency and Patch!
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