With a contagious enthusiasm for solving problems that matter in ways that actually have impact, Alex is an inspirational force to all who work with him. Alex has designed and taught a 3-credit course, “STS 3580: Creativity for Invention,” for multiple semesters to undergraduates, and has facilitated hundreds of workshops on the creative process worldwide. He holds a current credential in Creative Problem Solving from the Creative Education Foundation.
For the last 8 years, Alex has worked to build educational experiences at the University of Virginia to enable inventors, entrepreneurs, and artists to pursue their dreams as a full-time profession. Whereas the nation has stagnated in terms of the rate of new entrepreneurs, Alex’s programs quadrupled the amount of students going full-time on their dreams, and put UVA in the spotlight with a 4-year streak winning the ACC InVenture Prize.
Previously, Alex has pursued multiple entrepreneurial ventures, ranging from a translational research endeavor developing a point-of-care rapid diagnostic for bacterial infections that can be used in low-resource settings, ta magazine highlighting the accomplishments of student entrepreneurs around the world, and he was in the prestigious Y Combinator startup accelerator in Summer 2019.
When not teaching creativity, Alex is creating a hybrid accelerator/venture capital fund.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/azorychta
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