Note: V1’s expanding our team! Learn more & apply at v1michigan.com/team
We’re on a mission to spread our love of building across campus.
This semester, we spearheaded a ton of initiatives for our builder community — engineers, designers, creators, founders, and more! Check our Instagram, Luma, and future issues to see what’s up next 👀
Here’s an event recap. We hope you enjoyed these as much as we did organizing them!
🎪 Startup Fair
Startup Fair was electric! We had 17 high-growth startups attend both in-person and virtually to speak with 400+ ambitious students for both full-time and intern roles.
Thanks to all of our speakers, as well as our company sponsors that made this possible: Loop, Ramp, Bubble, Wispr, May Mobility, Shade, M7 Health, Lasso, PreVeil, KEF Robotics, DoorList, Courier Health, and Playhaus!
🏗️ Demo Day
The culmination of V1’s Product Studio building real-world products from scratch. Special thanks to Contrary for partnering with us on making Demo Day a reality!
This fall, V1 worked with a cohort of 22 ambitious students in our Product Studio, where they ideated, pitched, validated, and built MVPs together.
We had 6 incredible products, from affordable clothing exchanges to AI-powered user manuals. Details on joining our next cohort coming soon!
🚢 Ship-It Sunday
Our newest addition to V1’s roster of events! Ship-It is a 2-hour co-working session for creators of all kinds to make and “ship” progress on projects they’re passionate about. The only rule? No school allowed!
Ship-Its will be returning this winter — stay tuned for the next one!
〽️ MHacks 16
MHacks 16 was a blast! With over 500 hackers attending, we’re proud to have brought back the largest hackathon in the Midwest back in-person since 2019.
A big thanks to our sponsors: Capital One, Caterpillar, Warp, Grainger, Ramp, Optiver, Qualcomm, Ford, BNY Mellon, Virality Data, Roboflow, optiMize, U-M ITS, and Michigan Engineering.
And of course, congrats to our winners and their amazing projects!
1st place: DECO.ai
2nd place (by BNY Mellon): Terminal.AI
3rd place: VSAT
Keep an eye out for announcements about MHacks 17 next fall!
One more thing…
This wouldn’t be possible without our amazing team.
Behind the scenes, V1 has dozens of designers, volunteers, outreach coordinators, and directors that ensure our events are a success. Here’s who they are:
MHacks Team
Startup Fair Team
Product Studio Team
V1 invests in people with high growth potential — people that will grow faster than we can ever imagine. We look for energy, drive, and initiative. If this sounds like you, apply to join our team this winter! Find out more at v1michigan.com/team :)