Career Launch Winter 2025 Certificate

The 8-step Career Launch Method is a proven framework that has worked for thousands of college students across the country. Students who complete the Career Launch Method will have learned a holistic job search approach that emphasizes how to be strategic, proactive, and intentional. Students will have learned how to build a strong network, how to step out of their comfort zone, how to overcome a…

Life Design Winter 2025 Certificate

A workshop where participants use design thinking to reimagine their academic, personal, and professional journey. Workshop participants will gain clarity about their strengths, interests, and values to guide your college path and beyond; discover how design thinking can support them in making intentional choices about their college education, relationships, and career; experi…

Career Launch March 2025

The 8-step Career Launch Method is a proven framework that has worked for thousands of college students across the country. Students who complete the Career Launch Method will have learned a holistic job search approach that emphasizes how to be strategic, proactive, and intentional. Students will have learned how to build a strong network, how to step out of their comfort zone, how to overcome a…

IDEA LAB Spring 2025

Be Empowered through Design Thinking @ Idea Lab - the SCU Community of graduate and undergraduate students, alumni, faculty and staff are ALL invited to attend the Bronco Ventures Idea Lab, an experiential program focused on the core concepts of design thinking, customer-centered problem analysis to Ideation and the Pitch! Idea Lab is held as quarterly Saturday workshops. The workshop w…

IDEA LAB - Judge

Be Empowered through Design Thinking @ Idea Lab - the SCU Community of graduate and undergraduate students, alumni, faculty and staff are ALL invited to attend the Bronco Ventures Idea Lab, an experiential program focused on the core concepts of design thinking, customer-centered problem analysis to Ideation and the Pitch! Idea Lab is held as quarterly Saturday workshops. The workshop w…

Business Pitch Competition HS

Ciocca Center's High School Business Pitch Competition takes place each spring.Students all around the Bay Area compete for the 1st place award!

Business Pitch Jesuit University

Ciocca Center's Business Pitch Competition takes place each spring. Students from Jesuit University across the nation compete for the 1st place award!

Mindset Scholars '23-'25

Ciocca Center Mindset Scholars is a 2 year program to develop an early entrepreneurial mindset for incoming first year students at SCU. Mindset Scholars includes Academic Coursework that covers the entrepreneurial mindset from the perspective of each school: In the Leavey School of Business, students take BUSN 70 - Contemporary Business Issues (4 units), which is taught by a former CEO of a compa…

BVA Prep School 2025

The Bronco Venture Accelerator's Prep School offers the opportunity to experience a supportive, dynamic, hands-on environment that will spark innovation and prepare you to push your venture forward. You will learn how to take your business idea and expand it through roadmapping, problem solving, and pitch development. Accelerator Prep School will help you get ready to apply to the full Bronco Ven…

Idea Lab Fall 2025

Be Empowered through Design Thinking @ Idea Lab - the SCU Community of graduate and undergraduate students, alumni, faculty and staff are ALL invited to attend the Bronco Ventures Idea Lab, an experiential program focused on the core concepts of design thinking, customer-centered problem analysis to Ideation and the Pitch! Idea Lab is held as quarterly Saturday workshops. The workshop w…

Ciocca Center Immersion at Plug & Play

This certificate recognizes successful completion of an immersive training experience designed to cultivate the entrepreneurial mindset and provide students with a comparative perspective on Silicon Valley. Participants engaged with innovation leaders, explored emerging technologies, and developed practical skills essential to launching and growing new ideas. As part of the program, students atte…

Tiffany Certificate

For being Tiffany!

Idea Lab Winter 2026

Be Empowered through Design Thinking @ Idea Lab - the SCU Community of graduate and undergraduate students, alumni, faculty and staff are ALL invited to attend the Bronco Ventures Idea Lab, an experiential program focused on the core concepts of design thinking, customer-centered problem analysis to Ideation and the Pitch! Idea Lab is held as quarterly Saturday workshops. The workshop w…

2026 International Business Case Competition

The International Business Case Challenge Competition is a selective academic competition for students in MGMT 80 (Global and Cultural Environment of Business), in which selected participants collaborate in mixed teams from Santa Clara University and San José State University to analyze and present solutions to a complex global business case within 24 hours. The competition emphasizes real-world …

Innovation Fellows 2025 - 2026

The Innovation Fellows program helps students develop expertise and familiarity in the design thinking process - developing empathy, ideating new possibilities, prototyping solutions, and testing in real-world contexts. Over three quarters, Fellows work in interdisciplinary teams with SCU and community stakeholders to address a pressing challenge. The first quarter introduces the elements of…

Idea Lab Spring 2026

Be Empowered through Design Thinking @ Idea Lab - the SCU Community of graduate and undergraduate students, alumni, faculty and staff are ALL invited to attend the Bronco Ventures Idea Lab, an experiential program focused on the core concepts of design thinking, customer-centered problem analysis to Ideation and the Pitch! Idea Lab is held as quarterly Saturday workshops. The workshop w…

Venture Virtuoso Spring 2026 Certificate

Ciocca Center's Venture Virtuoso is an opportunity for sophomores, juniors, and seniors from every major to learn the art and science of effectively assessing start ups. Cohort members will complete MGMT 167, a 5 unit course called Venture Capitalist Essentials. MGMT 167 is an Entrepreneurship minor elective course and a course option in the Design Thinking Pathway. This course is an im…

Mindset Scholars - Certificate of Completion [2025 - 2026]

Ciocca Center Mindset Scholars is a 1 year program that cultivates and supports a multidisciplinary and multicultural community of undergraduate First Year students from across SCU, and delivers engaging experiences that prepare students to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.The four facets of an Entrepreneurial Mindset are:Awareness of how we make a differenceEmpathy for those we strive to …