Join the program that has successfully enabled 4 teams to get $50,000 customer discovery grants from the National Science Foundation!  Our short course helps you qualify for these prestigious I-Corps awards. Registration is now open for our next ZAP! course.  Register online by Tuesday, January 19. January 22, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.  January 29, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. ZAP! is based on the successful National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) methods of accelerating the translation of university engineering research to the marketplace.  If you complete ZAP!, you will be invited to IN-LA’s Technology Scouting Workshop, and may move forward in the IN-LA process toward eligibility for a $50,000 NSF I-Corps grant. It’s really easy!  Here are the steps:

• Go to lanode.org/zap/ and enter “USC ZAP January 22/29” for the date.
• Before the first class, fill in the attached two-slide template.  Don’t worry if you don’t know all the terms – we’ll teach them in our course – just give it a try.
• In the first class, learn about business terminology and more importantly, how to interview customers to understand their needs.
• Interview 5 people in the week following the first session.
• Tell us what you learned in the second session.

That’s it!  Join the wave of innovators commercializing their technologies. ZAP! first deck template