Opportunities

Leaders of SCET Innovators in Residence work closely with students in SCET’s Challenge Lab class and SCET Innovation student fellows program to mentor their startup projects. We are a close knit community and offer this program as a Decal class for those in need of units, however, many upperclassmen, MBAs, graduate students, community members, and alumni engage with the program by auditing this class. The “class” is more of a team meeting, where we plan events, plan mentorship activities, discuss trends and research, and most importantly form connections. We invite industry, founders, and current EIRs as speakers almost weekly for you to leverage.  Priority consideration is given to those who apply earlier. Interviews will occur on a rolling basis. If you are an MBA, graduate student, or alumni, we also have an IIR MBA/Community Mentor role to mentor students that has a lower time commitment.

This competition, hosted by Berkeley RDI in conjunction with the Agentic AI MOOC and its global community of 32K+ registered learners, invites builders, researchers, engineers, and AI enthusiasts to push the frontiers of agentic AI — AI systems that can reason, act, and interact with the world. Compete for over $1M in prizes and resources! In this two-phase competition, participants will: First build or enhance benchmarks for agentic AI (Phase 1), and then develop AI agents that excel on them (Phase 2). Together, these phases aim to advance the field by creating high-quality, broad-coverage, and realistic agent evaluations as shared public goods. All registered participants are eligible to receive $400 in Lambda Cloud credits and $50 in Nebius inference credits to power their projects! More resources will be announced soon. Huge thanks to our incredible sponsors: Google Cloud, Google DeepMind, Nebius, Lambda, Amazon/AWS, ServiceNow, Sierra, Snowflake, Linux Foundation and PyTorch…

Are you working on an AI product? This 12-week global accelerator is designed for women building AI-driven ventures. 10 teams will receive equity-free $10,000 each (a total of $100,000 in funding) and present at an in-person global Demo Day!

Apply for $10K in funding to design, launch and lead a community health innovation! Berkeley Public Health’s Social Impact Innovation Program provides funding for student-led projects to improve community health. Students turn their ideas into real world impact while building critical skills in leadership, partnership and team development, pitching and strategy. Interested students should reach out to program manager Kelly Horan at kelly_horan@berkeley.edu.

Calling All Berkeley Builders and Innovators: Join the Rural Health Hackathon Mar 13-16, 2026 If you’re excited about building health solutions that actually matter, the moment is now. The federal government just launched a $50B Rural Health Transformation program—one of the biggest health investments in decades. This is the time for new ideas and out of the box thinking. Over one immersive weekend you and your team will design solutions to real rural health challenges.