The Vanderbilt Innovation Fellows are a group of student innovators who work on immersive learning projects to design solutions for high-impact clients.
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Thank you for your interest in supporting student innovation at the Wond'ry, Vanderbilt University's Innovation Center. The Wond'ry welcomes students from all backgrounds, disciplines, and abilities and empowers them to develop innovative and creative solutions that can change the world.
How Your Donations Help
Donations to the Wond'ry help us sponsor ground-breaking innovation programming and resources for students. Here are just some of the programs supported by donors like you:
The Wond'ry Makerspaces are staffed by student workers who gain on-the-job experience in both hands-on making skills and in design consultation as they help their fellow students with prototype creation.
A Thank You Video for Our Donors
Ways to Give to the Wond'ry:
Be a Wond'ry Advocate
The Wond'ry encourages all innovators to do customer discovery to ensure a project is needed and can drive real value. A fifteen minute conversation can make all the difference. By signing up, you will be added to our list of Advocates that are willing to talk with a faculty, student, or staff team that is actively working on a new idea. You can volunteer your fifteen minutes by clicking here.
Support our Student Innovation Fund
Donations help us fund our amazing programs, as well as assist us in providing support, such as the $390,450 in microgrant awards that have been given since the Fall of 2022. Support our student innovation fund by clicking here.
Collaborate with Our Students
Do you or an organization you represent have an interest in working with our students on an innovative project as part of a short or long term collaboration? The Wond'ry seeks mentors, need-knowers, industry partners, and other sources of opportunities for our students to work on projects with real-world applications.
For organizations, project collaborations can be arranged with our Industry Collaborator Program.
Need-knowers who may wish to contribute projects for our making students to build can contact wondrymakerspace@gmail.com.
For one-on-one interactions, the Wond’ry Mentors are a network of entrepreneurs, executives, creatives, and forward thinkers eager to share their experience and insights with Wond'ry students. If you wish to become a mentor, please email thewondry@vanderbilt.edu.