DISCOVER, BUILD, LAUNCH!

  • Discover How to Improve on your Weaknesses & Capitalize on your Strengths as a Self-Aware Leader.

  • Build Connections to McCombs Resources, Learn Invaluable Insight from Upperclassmen Experience, and Be Apart of the Utmost Supportive Community.

  • Launch as a Young Professional through Completing our Spring Consulting Project to Craft & Refine Communicative Soft-Skills that Stand Out in Future Professional Opportunities.

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Our Mission Statement:

Freshman Launch empowers McCombs first-year students to harness their potential as young professionals, diligent leaders, and well-rounded students.

Through our offerings, we strive to cultivate a community robust in both support systems and resources as they embark on their journey as Longhorns!

Our Members

Freshman Launch is an experience tailored specifically for first-year business students to grow as leaders and young professionals as they begin their time as Longhorns.

Throughout the year, members will work to understand their values as a leader, explore how they function in a team, learn from speakers and established frameworks, and develop leadership skills such as communication and the integration of concepts including ethics and service.

Along with enhancing their leadership abilities, members will partake in professional development workshops regarding topics such as networking, public speaking, LinkedIn, resume development, and career path exploration. In the second semester, Launch members will put their knowledge into action, taking on a project to solve the business problems of a real Austin company as a team.

Freshman Launch will not only be an environment for personal growth, but also a place to build a community of peers within McCombs.

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We were so honored to have the following three students come and speak to our members at last week’s meeting: Jessie Meeks, Jacob Askew, and Elena Gil. The speakers answered questions about university life and job searches and gave our students
Nothing makes Austin feel more like home than late-night Chipotle with our Launch families! Comment below what your favorite memory of the spring semester has been so far 🚀
We are so excited to officially announce the companies that will be partnering with Freshman Launch in our Spring Consulting Project! Two of our original partners, Cold Cookie Company and Bhoomi Cane Water, will be replaced by Jeany’s Elixir an
We can’t believe that our first semester is already over! Thank you to all of our amazing members for your hard work, dedication, and enthusiasm over these past few months. We are so excited to spotlight some of your favorite parts of the Fresh
Thank you to Rob Walls for speaking to our Launch members earlier this month as part of our featured Speaker Series! Mr. Walls is a UT alumni with an extensive and varied career, having worked for companies and organizations such as the San Antonio S
We are so thankful to Karen Major from Deloitte for coming to speak to our Launch members earlier this month! Karmen is an expert transformational change expert with over 20 years of experience in the field. During her presentation, she shed light on
We had the best time last week at our first Launch family event! Our members got to know each other through fun icebreakers and conversation at our socially distanced picnic on the Tower Lawn. We are so excited all the safe and fun family events yet
We are so excited to welcome our newest Launch members! Congratulations to everyone, we cannot wait for the amazing year we have ahead of us. Launch exec is so excited to meet you guys virtually at our first meeting, this Thursday at 6 PM on Zoom!
We are so excited to announce that the application for the Launch class of 2020 has been released! Click the link in our bio to be taken to the Google Doc containing questions. Remember that you must download the doc, answer the questions in your own
Our fall 2020 recruitment will begin tonight with the first of our three virtual info sessions! At these sessions, we will be discussing our organization and it’s mission, our membership experience, and the application process. You will also be
Launch exec has been hard at work preparing an amazing year for our incoming members and can’t wait for you to see everything we’ve been working on behind the scenes! We’ll begin our recruitment process this week with two info sessi
We are so excited to announce our Fall 2020 recruitment schedule! We will be attending Gone to Business in addition to hosting three virtual info sessions to help you get to know what the Freshman Launch membership experience is like and how you can