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  • The college course where the military assigns the homework

    A new initiative is building a pipeline of tech know-how from America’s finest universities to the military. No one’s freaking out—yet.


    his spring, as part of their coursework, four Stanford University students found themselves in Coronado, California, doing pushups on the beach and charging into a 61-degree surf while overseen by Navy SEAL trainers. They performed this extraordinary homework to better understand the process of inculcating recruits into the elite corps of military frogmen and women. The end result of their (literal) immersion was a solution to an inefficiency in evaluating prospective SEALS: the time-consuming process of analyzing the mountains of comments made about each candidate. Tackling the problem like the internet entrepreneurs they hoped to become, the students created a mobile app to streamline the process. Their reward was thanks from a grateful military establishment—and college credit.
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