Innovation Insights

EyesOpenIowa, an innovation team from Cohort 2, share the insights they gleaned from end users and how they incorporated this information into shaping their innovation.

The Launch team looks back at the pitch event that marks the completion of the second Launch cohort.

Cohort 2 team SafeBAE shares how they used market testing to gather input from their end users and inform the re-design of one of their trainings.

Five new innovation teams will work to build and scale their solutions to improve youth health outcomes.

Amber, a member of the #RelationshipGoals team, shares how she’s applying insights from Launch in her role as a college professor.

Members of the Launch team share accomplishments to date and discuss what they’re excited about this year.

Teen Talk Foster Youth reflects on their time as a part of Launch’s first cohort and their takeaways from a training on storytelling.

Launch partner Healthy Teen Network shares highlights from their annual national conference, which included for the first time an Innovation Showcase that enabled innovators to share their innovations and connect with each other.

Launch faculty recently held a listening session to hear perspectives from people working in teen pregnancy prevention and adolescent health. Launch faculty member Courtney, who leads Launch recruitment, shares takeaways from the session, which will inform Launch’s strategy moving forward.

After they won the Audience Choice Award at Demo Day last month, we sat down with EmPOWERing K.I.N.G.S. (Knowledge Instills Next Generational Success) to talk about their curriculum and mentorship program to empower young Black men, their learnings from Launch, and their advice for future Launch teams.