Visionand Mission
Mission
Next Lab prepares students for careers that don't fully exist yet — through authentic, compensated work at the frontier of emerging technology, in partnership with industry, for the benefit of Arizona and beyond.
Whatwedo
ExploringEmergingTechnologies: We relentlessly explore the frontiers of emerging technologies, unlocking their potential to transform the world.
CultivatingFuture-ReadySkills: We empower individuals with futureready mindsets and hard skills to thrive in an ever-evolving technological landscape.
ActivatingReal-WorldExperience: We place students in paid, meaningful work with industry partners — turning emerging skills into launchpad careers.
Values
Valuesandvision
At Next Lab, we believe that our values are the driving force behind our vision Our commitment to innovation, collaboration, and community engagement shapes what we do and how we do it. By placing our values at the forefront, we ensure that every project we undertake, every partnership we form, and every solution we create is grounded in principles that foster growth and making a positive impact on society.
Weenvisionfuturesthataremore acrosstheglobe
Wherelearnersaren’tjustparticipants,but oftheireducation
Drivenby
Elevatedbysocialnetworksandtechnologiesthatnurturearobust
inclusive,equitableandaccessible agenticandself-determined architects transdisciplinarycollaborationandexploration communityecosystem
Focusedonthecultivationof
Builtbydiverselearnersas
Anchoredbyasteadfastcommitmentto
imagination,curiosity,andplay creators,makers,producers,andinventors ethical,sustainable,and principledinnovation
Guidedbythe
Seventh Generation principle, building sustainable futures for generations to come.
Team
NextLabAssociates
At the heart of Next Lab are our extraordinarystudentworkers: creative thinkers, problem-solvers, and leaders who drive the innovation you see across our projects These talented students come from diversedisciplinesandbackgrounds, bringing freshperspectivesandtechnicalskills to every challenge Whether developing immersive experiences, building digital twins, or prototyping AI tools, they are the ones imagining and realizing the future Their passionandingenuity are what make Next Lab a vibrant engine of innovation
Dan Munnerley
Kelly Mukherjee
Jesus Franco Yescas
Hithesh Purushothama
Amanda Federico
Student Team
NextLabAssociates
At the Next Lab, we hire Next Lab Associates from across the university, encompassing undergraduates to doctorate-level students, to form teams with a range of life experiences We value creative thinking, skill, and background, as it fosters richer ideation and creativity, which is highly valued by our partners. These partners include local government, large tech companies, and ASU faculty and staff, who support our associates through their grants and research funding.
Our Model
Howwework
Our organization operates a studio model similar to an 'indie' gaming studio or design house We collaborate with partners to ideate using the latest technologies and skills We assist our partners in budgeting and planning collaboration agreements that transform initial ideas into viable projects. Students from specialized skill guilds are then engaged to lead these projects, ensuring the delivery of critical milestones under the supervision of our project managers and subject matter experts.
Applied Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure User Experience & Research
Skill Guilds
Fundingmodel
The Next Lab operates with a mixed funding model. Our projects are financed through a combination of grants and industry partnerships, while our core team of five full-time employees is supported by the Office of the CIO To ensure the lab's long-term sustainability, we prioritize fundraising and aim to diversify our revenue sources to meet our future needs comprehensively.
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Partners
Ourpartners
At Next Lab, we recognize that the dynamic interplay between academia, industry, and emerging technologies shape the skills of the future. By partnering with industry leaders, vendors, and academic institutions, we create a robust ecosystem that drives innovation and discovery in skill development, resulting in future-ready careers
Zoom Fellows
Fellows
The Zoom Fellows are student developers building and shipping real tools on the Zoom platform — not course prototypes, but working applications developed in direct partnership.
Most people treat Zoom as infrastructure These students are exploring what becomes possible when you build thoughtfully on top of it, with every kind of learner in mind
Projects ► View more project details online
AIMockInterview
Advikaa Kapil
A Zoom-native interview practice tool that gives students real-time feedback on delivery, pacing, and answers designed for students mainstream platforms tend to overlook.
ZoomMomentum
Shitij Mathur
A Zoom side panel that keeps students on track during class: live check-ins, a running timeline of key topics, and a quick recap for anything missed.
Emma Yash Sawant
A meeting-aware companion that listens to live classroom conversation and turns it into structured, useful output in the moment, not after the fact.
Converging Technologies
Focusareas
We focus on AI, game technology, and spatial computing because their convergence is reshaping the future of how people live, work, and learn. AI enables systems to adapt and respond intelligently, game technology delivers interactive and engaging experiences, and spatial computing bridges the gap between digital content and the physical world.
By integrating these technologies, we can create more personalized learning environments, immersive storytelling, and high-fidelity simulations. This powerful combination unlocks new possibilities across sectors, from transforming healthcare and workforce training to advancing IT systems and reimagining entertainment.
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Speech Processing, Privacy-First, Offline AI
Adaptive Intelligence
GameTech
Game Engines, Graphics and Rendering, Audio, Physics, Cloud Computing and Multiplayer, Input handling, Animation, UI/UX, Game Logic, Scripting, Mechanics and Strategy
Gamified
Smart Environments
Smart Cities & Digital Twins
Immersive experiences & simulations
Spatial Computing
3D Visualization and Mapping, Sensors, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Geospatial Technologies, Digital Twins, Interaction Design, Wearables
Emerging Approaches
Waysofworking
Our approach equips learners with tools for anticipating change, preparing for future scenarios, and learning from past events, enabling them to thrive in a complex and unpredictable world.
Applied Innovation
Applied innovation means tackling real-world challenges with emerging technologies, not just adopting what's next, but shaping it By putting cutting-edge tools to work on meaningful problems, we help define the future of technology itself
Student Success
Preparing learners not just for the jobs of today, but for a workforce being reshaped by AI. Through hands-on experience with emerging technologies, students build the critical thinking, adaptability, and human-centered skills that matter most in a post-AI world graduating ready to lead, not just participate
Principled innovation
Principled innovation (one of the 9 ASU design aspirations) fosters anticipation, reflexivity, inclusion, and responsiveness, enabling us to proactively tackle real-world challenges, continually improve, embrace diverse perspectives, and adapt swiftly to ensure ethical, effective, and sustainable solutions
Learner agency
Heutagogy, self-efficacy, meta-cognition, self-determined, and rhizomatic learning empower 21st-century learners by fostering autonomy, reflective thinking, and adaptive, interconnected knowledge These approaches align with the demands of our information-rich world, enhancing lifelong learning and problem-solving skills.
Next Lab + team total followers
This year, we shared insights gained from our work, events we attended, visitors we welcomed and more This is just the start of a more defined communication plan going into the year of 2026-2027.
We also began a monthly series, Next Lab Associate Highlights, to showcase and celebrate the discoveries, achievements and lives of our student workers Topics of the monthly posts included what the students learned from their self-led applied learning projects, congratulations to our new hires and graduating alumni alike, and even gallery displays of gorgeous photos from the students’ vacation travels!
Lab Sends
56,264 Impressions 2025-2026
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28,875 members reached 2025-2026
Lab s Dan Munnerley Attends ASU+GSV Next Lab Welcomes Visitors from Utah and Australia Next Lab’s Framery Pods for Neurodiverse Learners
Lab Hosts LG Electronics
Next Lab Looks Back at 2025
Next Lab Welcomes Second Cohort of Zoom Fellows
NVIDIA Spark Accelerates Ne t Lab’s EdgeAI
Next Lab at Engage 2025 Expo
Next Lab Welcomes Fall 2025 New Hires
Next Lab talks Agentic AI and the Student Experience
Next Lab at Arizona Library Association Conference
Next Lab Welcomes Guests from Australia and Microsoft
Next Lab Takes the Stage in Colombia
Next Lab Expo
Engagement
Tours and visitors to Next Lab
Engagement
Tours and visitors to Next Lab
31 Tours & Visits 200+ People
Nov 2025 DavisCatalyst Center(Utah)
Tim Allen, Logan Toone, Brian Hunt, Derrek Bitner, Karah Crosby, Lindsay Porter
Apr 2026
Uganda Embassy Delegation
Ambassador
Robie Kakonge, Emma Prince Noble Egunyu, Reagan Tukamwesiga, Dan Gutwein (N50)
Jan 202 UnitedNations
Ian Phillips (Director of News & Media, UN)
Aug 2025
EarthUniversity(Costa Rica)
Anne Nielsen, Olivia Cross (UDI, ASU)
Jan 2026 Journalism&AI Accelerator
Julia Wallace, Nicole Carroll and national journalism delegates
Sep 2025 UAH
Dr. Antonia Larrain (Vice Provost, UAH)
Aug 2025 Decision Theatre + Faculty
David Rowsowski, Jessica Givens, Prof Ali Mostafavi, John van de Lindt
Aug 2025 CenterforScience &Imagination
Om Gawali
Jul 2025 ProSci
Lynda Williams
Mar 2026 STEMLabs Academy
Orlando, Lexine Hansen, Reilly Hammond
Oct 2025 PeoriaUnifiedMET Academy
30 student interns from Peoria MET
Oct 2025 CronkiteSchool
Rebecca Blatt (Sr Assoc Dean), Erin Coyle (Assoc Prof)
Oct 2025
Microsoft
Ajay Tanikella
Oct 2025 BCG
Roger Kohl
Engagements
Nov 2025
KhlasaMontessori
Children from Khlasa Montessori, organised by Di Bowman
Jan 2026
MBZUAI(AbuDhabi)
Xolani (Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI)
Oct 2025 PsychologyDept
Catheryn Reardon (Psychology)
Feb 2026 Global Futures Alliance
TeamReilly Hammond and Global Futures Alliance team
Jan 2026
EDUCAUSEand OpenAI
GuestsEDUCAUSE and OpenAI representatives
Feb 2026 DellTechnologies
Erik Keedy, Jill Sietz and Dell team
Feb 2026
TecdeMonterrey
Faculty and students (Faith Dalzell & Marco Serrato)
Mar 2026
UtahTechUniversity
Nate Caplin
Mar 2026
RMITUniversity(2nd Visit)
Fiona Notley and RMIT team
Apr 2026
CanyonsSchoolDistrict (Utah)
Newey Reid and colleagues
Feb 2026 SCAI
Student Researchers (photography shoot)
Mar 2026 LG / Thunderbird School
Vicky, Mike Grasso, Kelly Kreiser
Mar 2026 International Scholars Center Delegation
Mar 2026
EnterprisePartners DigitalTwin
Enterprise partners delegation
Apr 2026 StemAIverse
Damien Aldridge, Genevieve Felts Meyer
Engagement
Tours and visitors to Next Lab
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Projects
Built by studio associates
NextLab-DigitalTwinPlatform
Client: Internal
Project Apricot-Terria migrated our existing Cesium-based digital twin to a new platform: Terria This transition was driven by Terria's stronger capabilities in rendering, live data visualization, and user interactivity, allowing the digital twin to better support real-time insights and a more engaging user experience. As part of this migration, the updated digital twin platform has been deployed and is now hosted on AWS, providing a scalable, reliable, and secure foundation for ongoing development and future enhancements.
DigitalInclusionCommunity ImpactStorytelling
Partner: Maricopa County, AZ-1, Enterprise Technology Data Analysis & Visualization and Community Partners
Featured on the AZ-1 web portal as part of the Maricopa County Broadband Initiative, this project highlights the impact of broadband internet access on education, business, and wellness in Arizona, using the ArcGIS StoryMap platform It combines interviews, written articles with voiceovers, podcasts, and geospatial mapping to share stories of community members benefiting from having broadband access, such as telehealth and 5G technology for startups ►Accessthestorieshere
ntiaPatients
Morales - Edson College of Nursing
ck from dementia patients on features they ot, students in our Dogwood-Edson project are a secure, easy-to-use AI-based provides evidence-based guidance and entia patients living alone. Working alongside ab Studio Associates and Volunteers will o AI features and conversational workflows, resources, daily strategies, activity al support prompts Delivered on an accessible orm, the system is designed for reliable home ting pilot deployment and technical monitoring
Projects NextLabI25-26
Built by studio associates
ASUGISMapping
Client: ASU Administrative GIS
Next Lab supports the geographic information system (GIS) mapping needs of the university through our Enterprise ArcGIS license, spanning various departments, like Health & Counseling, Fire Safety, Campus Tours, Wellness, EdPlus, Arboretum, ASU Farm, Parking & Transit, and Accessible Entrances.
SanTanValleyArcGISHubWebsite
Client: San Tan Valley
Next Lab is working with the town of San Tan Valley to build a brand-new website using ArcGIS Hub, commemorating their new status as a municipality Visitors to the website will be able to access news and resources regarding the town, including town hall records, council member information, demographic data hosted on ArcGIS maps, and more
FutureScape-Middleschoolcareerexplorermini-games
Client: SRP, Educational Outreach and Student Services, ASU Prep
Next Lab launched a phase two of our FutureScape project, a suite of games for middle schoolers to learn about and explore different careers spanning 12 different industries Using feedback from phase one of the project from middle schoolers and industry professionals, Next Lab has revamped the experience with easier controls, helpful tooltips, three brand new games, and a custom website to host the entire collection ►PlaytheGamesOnline
Guilds
Skill-buildingcommunity
Technical Artistry, Modeling, Animation, Concept (TAMAC)
TAMAC supports members in developing artistic and technical skills through weekly meetings focused on 3D tools, workshops, peer feedback, and creative projects. Members gain hands-on experience with industry-standard workflows, preparing for careers in XR, animation, game design, and digital art.
User Experience and Research (UXR)
The UXR guild sharpens problem-solving and design skills by tackling real-world UX challenges. Members conduct research, analyze workflows, and redesign interfaces to improve usability and aesthetics, all while exploring emerging design practices and workflows, such as immersive UI/UX and UX for agentic AI.
Games and Spatial Computing (GSC)
This guild explores engines like Unity, Godot, and Roblox Studio. Members share and collaborate on projects, exchange ideas, and engage in mini game jams and prototyping sessions. It’s a hands-on space to experiment with game mechanics, design, and engine-specific challenges, as well as explore new emerging topics in the game development industry
Digital Storytelling (DS)
The Digital Storytelling guild bridges the gap between Next Lab’s work and interests of potential sponsors, partners, and the general public, ensuring that anything about Next Lab shown to the world aligns with both Next Lab and ASU’s values and resonates with their peers Members build skills through real-world experience, helping increase visibility and interest in Next Lab’s mission and projects through written pieces as well as innovative storytelling methods like podcasts and comics.
Applied Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure (AAII)
The AAII guild explores everything from machine learning basics to advanced applications and agentic workflows Members engage in workshops, collaborative projects, and research to drive innovation and maintain Next Lab’s leadership in AIenhanced experiences with a focus on local small language models. Join a Guild on Discord https://lnkd.in/gaTWFjnv
GuildProjects
20%timespentlearning
IndividualArtProjects
Guild: Technical Artistry, Modeling, Animation, Concept
Guild members and volunteers explored emerging programs and workflows for artistic asset creation, such as AI-assisted animation, audio visualization, MetaHuman and Unreal Engine integration, and AI-driven architectural geometries
WrenFeng,Volunteer SukhadaPande,Associate SpencerErickson,Intern
MachineLearningAgents
Guild: Games and Spatial Computing
Using game engines like Unity and Godot, guild members and volunteers experimented with creating machine learning AI agents inside games and simulations, ranging from racing games with environments generated from geospatial data, to platformers and even card games
Guild: User Experience and Research
This year, student workers and volunteers explored the intersection of UX and AI, including agent-centered, conversational, and AI-mediated workflows Newer members also upskilled in Unity’s interactive UI system
KathleenVela,Associate
JaydenRobles,Lead AnanyaBasarkar,Associate CarterVaughan,Volunteer DonovanHarp,Intern
Next Lab R&D
AppliedArtificial IntelligenceInfrastructure (AAII)
Partners: Dell, N50, AI Cloud Innovation Center, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, The GAME School, The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
The ASU AAII Guild delivered three functional prototypes that together span on-premise GPU infrastructure, community legal intelligence, and AI-powered professional development at scale
Across all three projects, the team integrated sevendistinctAImodels, worked across four modalities(text,voice,vision,andmotion), and deployed every workload through a single NVIDIADGXSpark an on-premise GPU platform that the Guild itself built the tooling to operate
The Dell GB-10 (DGX Spark ) is a powerful onpremise AI workstation, but without dedicated tooling it requires direct command-line access to operate — a significant barrier for a team sharing a single machine across multiple projects.
The DGX Control Center solves this with a browser-based self-service platform: selecta model,validateGPUcapacity,spinupan inferenceruntime,andpublishashareable endpointin30to90seconds. Live telemetry streams to the dashboard every two seconds, every deployment is logged, and every Guild project this semester ran through it
Innovation
Next Lab R&D
TribalLawGuide
Tribal codes, governance frameworks, and healthcare regulations are among the most consequential documents in Native American communities, yet often the hardest to access, typically scattered across unindexed PDFs and physical records
Cedar is a community-centered AI platform that changes this: authorized members upload documents, and any community member can ask a natural-language question and receive a cited, plain-language answer drawn exclusively from what the community has uploaded When relevant content isn't found, Cedar says so because in a legal context, a transparent nonanswer is safer than a confident hallucination.
RemoteTeacherTraining
Project Limba delivers a structured six-weekAI literacycurriculum to educators across Nigeria entirely through WhatsApp Each lesson follows an interactive engagement framework, with messages scheduled to fit around teaching. A LangGraph orchestrator routes each message to one of fourAI personas—Knowledge,Coach,Quiz,or Redirect while the backend runs fully serverless on AWS.
The curriculum was written by an expert team of international educators and technical specialists collectively working together through the N50 Project
Programs
Workshops, events and partnerships
Moonshot Accelerator Cohort
This year, Next Lab successfully graduated from the Moonshot Accelerator Cohort Program. This 9-month program prepares teams to design, strategize, and lead big ideas to address complex societal challenges and position themselves to secure philanthropic funding for their work. Over the course of the program, the Next Lab team designed, developed, iterated on, and presented their proposal for the NextWork: a franchise-like expansion of Next Lab into a global ecosystem of collaborative institutions employing elements of the Next Lab structure, operations and/or model using a customizable toolkit of playbooks, guides, templates, and a digital governance system. Program Coordinator Amanda delivered the NextWork presentation on the program’s final pitch day, receiving positive feedback and acknowledgement from the panel of philanthropic leaders.
Next Lab Volunteer Program
In September 2025, Next Lab officially launched the Next Lab Volunteer Program, giving anyone the chance to directly participate in the Next Lab Guilds and contribute to upskilling projects on a monthly basis. Volunteers select a guild for the month to attend meetings and upskill through an applied project alongside the team. Volunteers also have the opportunity to present at the Next Lab Expo, a new open-house style event held a few times throughout the year for the Next Lab student Guilds to share what they have been creating and exploring Over the course of the year, the Next Lab Volunteer Program has received 70 applicants, with a handful of outstanding participants eventually becoming paid Next Lab Associates.
Become a Volunteer
Programs
QSImpact - Skill Challenge
QS Impact – Games for Impact Skill Challenge
Since 2024, Next Lab has been a founding partner of the QS ImpACT Skills Challenge, a global "Games for Good" competition that empowers young people to design digital games addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Next Lab's early involvement helped by bringing expertise in game design, sustainability education, and experiential learning to the pilot. Since then: the initiative has grown rapidly, and Next Lab continues as a Partner in the 2025 and 2026 edition.
This year’s QS ImpACT Skills Challenge is the program's third edition and its most impactful to date. Open to young people aged 18–35, the challenge is fully virtual, offering free expert training, hands-on game creation, and the opportunity to build games with real-world SDG impact. This year's cohort included over 160 youth teams representing 44+ nations, resulting in 53 games created and £2,000 in prize money awarded
Programs
QSImpact - Skill Challenge
The 2026 challenge featured two tracks Beginner (No-Code) and Advanced (Coding) yielding 163 games from 28 countries across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, and France among the top contributing nations. Winning games included Silvoria – Restoring Ancient Forests (Vietnam) and Water Engine (France), both tackling climate, biodiversity, and water systems through immersive gameplay.
Expert training was delivered across four sessions led by Zynga, Unity Technologies, the University of York, and Ludex AI, totaling over 6 hours of live instruction with 11 external media placements across Nigeria, Uganda, Somaliland, Australia, Ethiopia, and Singapore amplifying the program's reach into influential youth-opportunity networks worldwide.
Looking ahead, QS ImpACT aims to expand the 2027 edition to 60+ countries and 500+ teams with a year-round model — and Next Lab's continued partnership positions the lab at the leading edge of this growing global movement.
France
Malaysia
Conferences
Conferences
Fostering the Future Together — U.S. Department of State, Washington D.C.
March 2026 | FY26
Dan Munnerley attended the Fostering the Future Together convening at the U S Department of State, featuring opening remarks from Melania Trump and panel contributions from 45 First Spouses alongside global education delegations Next Lab showcased its applied work in partnership with N50, demonstrating offline AI systems designed to run on low-power devices without internet connectivity The session surfaced shared priorities around digital access, safety, and the future of learning systems and generated significant international attention for the EDge AI project
QS / HolonIQ Global Skills Week — Washington D.C.
March 2026
Dan Munnerley participated in a panel at Global Skills Week in Washington D.C. alongside Marco Serrato and colleagues from the Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. Sessions covered Future Skills, AI Capability Assessment, and Investor Perspectives on EdTech. The event, co-organised by QS and HolonIQ, brought together university leaders, investors and policy makers to explore how AI and skills-based education can address global workforce challenges Attendance reinforced Next Lab's connections within the QS ImpACT ecosystem and generated new conversations about the Next Lab model as a scalable framework for skillsbased innovation
ASU Women and Philanthropy Final Pitch Day 2026 – Phoenix, AZ
March 2026
Program Coordinator Amanda Federico joined forces with Heather Ross and Margaret Calacci from Edson College of Nursing to deliver a pitch on VR nursing simulations in low-resource communities to the ASU Women and Philanthropy group. The team made it all the way to the finals in hopes of securing funds to launch a joint project between ASU and Scott College of Nursing in Lesotho.
NAFSA Global Summit for International Educators — Tangier, Morocco
January 2026 | FY26
Dan Munnerley was invited to present at the inaugural NAFSA Global Summit, participating in a panel and engaging with entrepreneurs and education leaders from across Africa and Europe The summit reinforced international interest in the Next Lab student-led innovation model and ASU's approach to ethical, community-centred AI
Conferences NextLabI25-26
QS Reimagine Education & QS Impact Youth Summit London, UK
December 2025 | FY26
Dan Munnerley and Olivia attended the QS Impact Youth Summit, participating in two panels and judging the AI Hackathon. At QS Reimagine Education, Next Lab's partner SolarSPELL won first place among 1,600 submissions, receiving a £25,000 award.
Meta Wearable Summit — Menlo Park, CA
December 2025 | FY26
Dan Munnerley, Amanda Federico, Jesus Franco Yescas (Next Lab) and Emilia Gracia (Global Launch, ASU) were invited to the Meta's Wearable Summit, to share their vision for an ASU Wearable Campus Tour a mixed-reality experience that transforms campus visits into guided, interactive journeys with overlaid media, spatial prompts, and multilingual guidance The project was selected from dozens of Meta education partner submissions as a standout example of student-led immersive technology at scale
Agentic AI Conference ASU, Tempe, AZ
October 2025 | FY26
Next Lab hosted a student lab presentation at the Agentic AI Conference in partnership with the CAT Lab from Westmont College. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners exploring autonomous AI systems and their implications for education.
EngageXR Expo – ASU, Tempe, AZ
September 2025
Next Lab returned to the EngageXR Expo, presenting recent work including the Mayo Virtual Stroke Assessment and EDge AI. The expo provided a platform to share Next Lab's studentled innovation model with the Enterprise Technology community
HolonIQ / QS Back to School Summit — New York
August 2025
Dan Munnerley was invited to participate in panels at the HolonIQ and QS Back to School Summit in New York, joining over 600 philanthropy and higher education leadership professionals. Next Lab presented its work on AI, Digital Twins, and the student-led innovation model to an audience of global university leaders and funders. The event is one of the leading annual gatherings for senior HE strategy leaders, and provided a key platform for raising Next Lab's international profile ahead of the QS Skills Challenge.
Testimonials
GraduatesandPartners
Next Lab became one of the most transformative experiences of my time at ASU The environment feels like a completely different tech world a culture that constantly pushes you to think bigger and create boldly It truly sparked a new level of creativity and ambition in me
Advikaa Kapil
One of my favorite parts has been getting to explore my love for writing while also seeing how much scope it actually has in tech. It also kept me super up to date with all the ongoing models and tools, especially through the AI Guild where I got to learn and try things hands-on.
Bhavana Reddy Pasula Zoom Fellow Associate
During this year at Next Lab, I'm really grateful for having the chance to meet so many great people and work on a lot of fun and meaningful projects!
Annie Cheng Lead
Next Lab gave me an understanding of how projects work in groups at a higher level and led me to branch out into a bunch of new technology that I’d never done before. It reignited a passion for making and experimenting, and it feels really rewarding.
Carter Vaughan Volunteer
Next Lab gave me a space to do work that actually reaches people Getting to contribute to broadband storytelling and see how technology intersects with real community impact was something I didn’t expect to find in a student worker role, and honestly it changed how I think about what I want to build. The mentors and people I’ve met here made it that much better.
Lakshya Dharwal
My 90 minutes with Next Lab at ASU were so thought provoking, I'm still talking about it and I'll be singing their praises at Canon and across the UNC System Jay Horton Canon Associate
