Spark Grants
The Olympus Spark Grant Fund helps Project Olympus PROBEs students kick-start their business ideas. Olympus Spark Grant Fund [.pdf]
The Olympus Spark Grant fund is available for PROBE students and is funded by charitable gifts from alumni and other community donors. Students submit proposals and practice 'pitching' the donors. Donors play a vital role in helping Olympus evaluate the students' applications and making award decisions. This is an ongoing grant fund where donors can begin their participation at any time.
Project Olympus Announces the 2016 Spring Spark Grant Award Winners
Five PROBE Projects were awarded a $5,000 micro-grant from the Olympus Spark Grant Fund. These grants are made possible through charitable contributions from alumni and Friends of Olympus.
Eleanor Haglund, Founder | Dietrich '16
eebooksis changing the publishing landscape of enhanced e-books. eebooks is developing software that enables writers to easily create media-rich e-books for electronic reading devices.
Torrell DaShawne Jackson, Founder & Investor | TPR 2016
Chiroproktr is an instructional medical device/dummy developed to assist doctors in developing/practicing adjusting techniques for spinal manipulation.
Parag Goel, Founder | ECE, Masters 2016
LogCycle helps schools process visa documents for millions of international students quickly and seamlessly, without touching a sheet of paper.
Austin Webb, CEO | Tepper MBA 2017
Robotany is automating the commercial vertical farming industry by creating mobile robotic solutions that increase labor efficiency by 25%, double crop output and provide an unprecedented level of data collection to improve farm operations.
Kerolos Mikaeil, Founder | ECE and Engineering/Public Policy, 2017
VIC provides vendors, such as Coca-Cola, with a mobile application that focuses on providing real-time inventory data. This information decreases the labor costs associated with manually counting inventory and allows sales representatives to spend more time selling.
Spark Grant Winners
2016[.pdf]
2015[.pdf]
2013[.pdf]
2012[.pdf]
2011[.pdf]
Spark Grant Donors
Michael Baum
Tony R. Berkman
Roger Byford
Eric C. Cooper
Marcel D. DePaolis
Michael Donohue
Marc C. Guldimann
Adrian Hodges
James Jacob Huttner, M.D, Ph.D
Theo Nicholas
The Painter Family
Richard and Nancy Waichler
For a complete list of donors to our programs, please visit the Donor Recognition page. For more information on how to support Project Olympus and its programs, visit Support Olympus.