Last weekend, Techstars Global Startup Weekend brought together nearly 100 people to create new companies as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week.

While the Startup Weekend is not the only game in town to foster entrepreneurial skills in diverse people – the BEACON DC awards, last year’s Thriving Cities hackathon, and even a local library meeting all do that, too, to name just a few – Startup Weekend is unique in focusing on startup creation, and on including deaf participants.

We spoke to the trio of organizers for the Startup Weekend – Steven A. Rodriguez, Monica Kang, and Brittany Sickler – to learn how they have helped incorporate deaf participants for two years now, and of course to find out who won.

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