#30 Mike Watson: Preparing Students for Real-World Problem Solving

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Three years ago, a student without a coding background couldn't ship a prototype. Today they're starting companies.

Mike Watson and Vijay Mehrotra have spent years putting students in front of real clients with real problems and no safety net. In this conversation, Mike pulls back the curtain on Northwestern's Client Project Challenge: how he hunts down the right projects, why he wants a client's fourth most important problem, and why…