//University of Notre Dame · Fall 2026
Build real software for real companies.
Innovation Sprint Lab is Notre Dame's student-run engineering accelerator: small sprint teams shipping production software for real companies, mentored by senior industry engineers. The fall runs from SprintHack@ND on October 3–4 to Demo Day on December 5.
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//Two doors, one pipeline
First, who are you?
The open weekend
SprintHack@ND
October 3–4 · Innovation Park
Companies bring real problems, you build the answer in a weekend. No application, any major, teams form on site.
See the hackathonThe selective program
The Sprint Lab
October–December · Demo Day Dec 5
Sprint teams ship production software inside a partner problem, mentored by senior engineers. Application plus showing up in September.
Apply to the lab//Fall 2025 cohort
Where our members ended up after the lab.
Internships, full-time roles, and fellowships from cohort one.
Pariveda
Hourglass Capital
//How the fall works
One semester. Four stages.
Run with CS4Good, the Notre Dame Data Club, and NDVC, so more students get to build real things.
- 01 · SEP
Lectures
What professional engineering looks like, taught by JP Burford, our CTO-in-Residence, plus speakers from across the industry. Open across all four clubs.
- 02 · OCT 3-4
SprintHack@ND
Saturday October 3 to Sunday October 4 at Innovation Park. The whole weekend, the format, and last year's record live on the SprintHack@ND page.
- 03 · OCT-DEC
Sprint Lab
The strongest builders go deeper: multi-week sprint teams inside partner codebases, mentored by senior engineers.
- 04 · DEC 5
Demo Day
Saturday December 5. Working software, demoed to founders, investors, and partner companies, with feedback from people you'd never otherwise meet.
//October 3–4 · open to everyone
SprintHack@ND has its own page.
The weekend plan, the reverse-pitch format, and how companies plug in.
//Every Tuesday · one slot per session
So does Show and Tell.
Five minutes to show the room what you are building, five of questions.
//Fall 2026 calendar
Every date, in order.
Weekly sessions with JP on Tuesdays, 7:00 to 8:30 PM, plus SprintHack and Demo Day. Each session has one Show and Tell slot, open to anyone building something.
Import to Google CalendarDownload .icsOne click, then Add in Google Calendar: every session lands in your calendar and stays in sync with room updates. The .ics works with Apple Calendar and Outlook.
//Organized by
//Not coursework
Semester one shipped.
Fast-track hiring offers
ClickUp offered to fast-track hiring for strong participants; TeamWorthy opened its portfolio pipeline.
Inside a live portfolio codebase
A team embedded in a TeamWorthy Ventures portfolio company, mentored by an ex-Meta engineer.
Mentors who've built it
An ex-YC engineer with 40 years of programming experience, and the founder-CTO of ClickUp, a $4B+ company, working with teams directly.
100% internship/full-time placement
Cohort one landed at Boeing, AWS, IBM, NVIDIA, and more. Shipped production work reads differently on a resume than club projects.
“Incredibly transformative.”
“An invaluable extension of the classroom.”First cohort engineers
//Semester one mentors, judges & sponsors
ClickUp
PivotNorth Capital
Replit- iNDustry Labs
Graham Allen Partners
//Fall 2026
Already in for the fall.
The first partner problems are locked, with the mentors attached to them.
RETURNING PARTNER Fall 2026
ClickUp
Back for a second year. Mentorship comes from Alex Yurkowski, ClickUp's co-founder and CTO and a Notre Dame alum, working with the team directly.
PROGRAM PARTNER Fall 2026
Goodwill Michiana
A regional institution scaling from $50M toward $100M. Mentorship comes from Goodwill's president and an ex-Amazon engineer who designed Amazon's first one-hour delivery systems and helped lead the Whole Foods integration.
MORE COMING Fall 2026
Your company here
The partner list is still open. Bring a problem worth solving and we scope it in one call. How to plug in
//Season one, on the record
The Lab
The accelerator
- Engineers selected15
- Applicants screened70+
- Industry placement100%
SprintHack@ND
The hackathon
- Builders60+
- Teams12
//For companies
Bring us a problem worth solving.
Our builders work best on real problems with real stakes. Three lanes, from an afternoon at the hackathon to a three-month sprint; the tiers live on the SprintHack page.
// Bring a problem
Reverse-pitch it at SprintHack@ND, or hand a sprint team a real codebase.
// Sponsor
Fund prizes and cohorts, and get first access to vetted engineers.
//For alumni & individual judges
Give a builder an hour.
No company needed: alumni, engineers, and investors plug in as individuals, an hour at a time.
// Judge SprintHack
Judge the demos on Sunday, October 4, and hold office hours with teams during the build.
// Mentor a sprint team
One hour a week, October to December: steer a team through a real problem.
// Speak at a session
Twenty minutes on a Tuesday night to hundreds of CS students across four clubs.
//Applications are open
Applications are open; this form is the updates list.
The Fall 2026 application takes about ten minutes, and you can update your answers any time before the deadline. Apply here.
Not applying, but want to stay close? Alumni, companies, and anyone who wants updates: leave your info and we'll keep you posted.
- // Students: apply at /apply, any major
- // Companies: bring a problem, judge, or mentor
- // This form is the updates list, not the application
//The team
The people running it.
- Alex YurkowskiCo-Founder & CTO, ClickUp · Technical Mentor · Notre Dame Alum
- JP BurfordCTO-in-Residence · ex-WebMD Director of Engineering · 2x YC startup CTO
- John HenryDirector of Student Startups, IDEA Center
- Gaspar LarrainPresident, Notre Dame Data Club
- Kirby BachPresident, CS4Good
- Dawson MedinaPresident, NDVC
- Joseph DienerOperations · NDVC Board
- Mark EvgenevCEO, Desync AI · Industry Partnerships
- Emily KimBusiness Development & Partnerships
- Stefan OleksiienkoFounder & Program Director
