Join Hillsborough Community College and the South Tampa Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the Grand Opening of inLab@HCC & STRIVE Veterans Training!
About STRIVE Veterans Training
The STRIVE program is a NEW entrepreneurship training program offered through Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), in partnership with Hillsborough Community College (HCC). The STRIVE program offers Veterans, active duty, Reserve/Guard, and their spouses with an opportunity to take an early stage business, or business idea through a rigorous 6-week training program. The program leads to post program support both locally as well as nationally through the IVMF network. If accepted, this program is completely free of charge. Participants that complete the program, and meet certain requirements will qualify to apply for funding through the HCC Everyday Entrepreneur Venture Seed Fund.
About inLab@HCC
The Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation. inLab@HCC is the centralized hub for all things related to innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and social venturing offered at Hillsborough Community College (HCC). inLab@HCC offers a broad collection of academic and co-curricular programs, that include experiential and applied interdisciplinary college credit certificate and degree programs, mentoring services for entrepreneurs, workshops, internships, research projects, sustainability programs, funding opportunities, and other initiatives.
inLab@HCC is designed to provide students with 21st-century skills, based upon creativity, lifelong learning, and designing, developing, launching, and growing high impact ideas that transform the world. We accomplish this through our five IMPACT core pillars: Innovate, Mindset, Purpose, Action, Community, and Transformation.