Mike Hunt Construction Sprint
In FY2026, the Mike Hunt Construction Sprints expanded entrepreneurship opportunities for NMSU civil engineering students by embedding entrepreneurial thinking across Hunt Center programs, competitions, and industry experiences.
Carlos Murguia
Director, Hunt Center for Entrepreneurship
cmurguia@nmsu.edu
STUDENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Mike Hunt Construction Sprint
Bold Idea Conference
On October 30, 2025, the Hunt Center for Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with Studio G and the Nusenda FinTech Lab, hosted the Bold Idea Conference at the Corbett Center Student Union. The full-day event brought together industry leaders, faculty experts, and student innovators for keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking centered on practical entrepreneurial skills, from leveraging AI tools and building financial foundations to personal branding and moving from skilled trades into business ownership. The conference was made possible by New Mexico Mutual, the Mike Hunt Construction Sprints, and Nusenda Credit Union.
DetailsHack NMSU
In April 2026, NMSU marked a milestone in student-led innovation with the inaugural Hack NMSU, an interdisciplinary hackathon held April 10 in Science Hall. Organized by the Computer Science Student Association with support from the NMSU Computer Science Department, the NMSU FinTech Lab powered by Nusenda Credit Union, and the Mike Hunt Construction Sprints, the event brought together 55 students across computer science, nursing, engineering, and mathematics to build and demo a working product in just seven hours.
Civil engineering students Nelson Kandel and Samriddhi Ghimire, competing as Concrete Coders, won the Open Innovation category with a prototype that predicts highway deterioration from real-time traffic and weather data and generates plain-language maintenance recommendations.
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