//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, senior industry mentors, production codebases. From SprintHack@ND on October 3-4 to Demo Day on December 5.
//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. Reverse pitching: companies bring real problems, builders solve them live in front of judges from venture and industry.
- 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.
//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.
- September 8TuesdayKickoff: Coding Sessions with JP1 / 12First session of the series.Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- September 15TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP2 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- September 22TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP3 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- September 29TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP4 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- October 3–4SprintHack@NDCompanies bring real problems. You build the answer in a weekend.Innovation Park, Notre DameAll day
- October 6TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP5 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- October 13TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP6 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- October 17–25University mid-term breakNo session on Tuesday, October 20.All day
- October 27TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP7 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- November 3TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP8 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- November 10TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP9 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- November 17TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP10 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- November 24TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP11 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- December 1TuesdayCoding Sessions with JP12 / 12Room announced in your club channelApply for this Show and Tell slot7:00 – 8:30 PM
- December 5SaturdayDemo DaySprint teams demo what they shipped, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM.Innovation Park, Notre DameAll day
Add to your calendarDownloads every session, SprintHack, and Demo Day as one file.
//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
//Applications open soon
Get the first email when applications open.
Leave your info and you'll hear from us the moment Fall 2026 applications go live. One email when they open. That's it.
Students can also apply through CS4Good or the Notre Dame Data Club once applications open.
- // Takes about 60 seconds
- // One email when applications open
- // Students, alumni, and companies welcome
//Season one, on the record
The Lab
The accelerator
- Engineers selected15
- Applicants screened70+
- Industry placement100%
SprintHack@ND
The hackathon
- Builders60+
- Teams12
//Companies & alumni
Bring us a problem worth solving.
Our builders work best on real problems with real stakes. Here's how to plug in, this batch or a future one.
// Bring a problem
Reverse-pitch it at SprintHack@ND, or hand a sprint team a real codebase.
// Speak
Talk to hundreds of Notre Dame CS students across four clubs.
// Judge the hackathon
Join judges from venture and industry on Sunday, October 4.
// Sponsor
Fund prizes and cohorts, and get first access to vetted engineers.
//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
