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Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022
Volume 159 No. 41 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934
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SVIC spotlights innovation By Alessio Cavalca STAFF WRITER
On Tuesday, the San Jose State Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship held the 2022 Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge in the Student Union, a competition showcasing 40 entrepreneur teams, which competed for awards by exhibiting their ideas and projects. Sarika Pruthi, SJSU entrepreneurship associate professor and Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge organizer, said the 40 teams, after first passing an online judging round, have been invited to exhibit their projects in front of 27 judges. Pruthi said she was relieved to host the event in person after the past two editions were virtual because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “People can meet with each other face to face, and it’s a fantastic networking opportunity,” Pruthi said. “It also helps in the judging process, because if some judges have questions, they have not had a chance to look at all innovations in the first round, they can come back and ask questions.” She said the judges evaluated the teams with different criteria, focusing the attention on the uniqueness of teams’ ideas, skills ALESSIO CAVALCA | SPARTAN DAILY
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From left to right: Nicolas Costa, Alexandra Piliotis and Nestor Rodriguez pose after winning first place for the 2022 Best Overall Innovation award for Kitchen Sync, an at home hormone test, on Tuesday in the Student Union.
SJSU hires community needs coordinator By Nick Zamora STAFF WRITER
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San Jose State Interim President Steve Perez announced in a campuswide email Tuesday that Chloe Richter would be the new Community Needs Coordinator. Richter said the position consists of coordinating student services to better serve students, supporting faculty and staff, as well as writing grants and listening to students about their changing needs. In the email announcing the position, Perez stated the university needs to build current efforts of student support and identify new ways to be able to support faculty and staff. Richter said she hopes to address housing and food insecurity as well as menstrual and digital equity for students on campus. Richter also said she hopes to have “listening sessions” to further engage students and give them a more regular forum to be heard. “People be[ing] able to participate in creating solutions and students feeling like their needs are met,” she said. “Faculty and staff also feel like this is a place that they want to be working, they feel like they have their needs met as well.” The new Community Needs Coordinator role was created by Perez in the summer and Richter filled the position after a two and half month search. SJSU kept the position open to those interested inside and outside of the university. Richter spent six years working in the Washington County Public Health and Environmental office in Minnesota, where she’s originally from, as a
Chloe Ritcher, the newly appointed Community Needs Coordinator who works for the office of the president, sits in her office in Clark Hall.
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