23 Student Innovations

“Make it new,” Ezra Pound told young writers in the last century. These days, it’s everyone’s mantra — ask the Big Three executives in Detroit or the president-elect. He made “homegrown innovation” a cornerstone of his campaign. But students don’t need the rhetorical push. On campuses across the country, they have been building practical inventions, starting novel businesses and generally alpha-testing their ideas. Here are a few.

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