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Reports of Innovation in Las Vegas
Watch this 15-minute interview with Jaun Carlo Pascua, 2010 Student Ambassador from UNLV, and you’ll get a sense for why we believe Patience, Persistence and Perseverance are three important qualities in a student changemaker. 2010 Student Ambassador from the inaugural group has been working way for the last three years, unbeknownst to me. Last I […]
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943, Inventor of AC Electricity) Pitching Silicon Valley VCs
What if the guy who invented the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system were to pitch to a VC today. Would he have been funded? Check out this hilarious video commentary, produced by NorthernImagination. From Wikipedia: Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American[2][3] inventor, electrical […]
Why Being A Student Leader Is The Hardest and Best Thing College Offers
By Sean Newman Maroni In my first post, we played with the idea of creating “autocatalyzing” events–being the person who gets a new event or initiative started but then gives up control to another person or to the community itself. In this post, I’d like to elaborate on how I came to this idea, and […]
Freshman & Sophomores Get Practical Design & Project Experience in Biomedical Engineering
In this video interview Georgia Tech rising senior Jim Schwoebel describes his experience entering college knowing his destiny was to invent, innovate and be an entrepreneur. But, when he got to Georgia Tech, he found that most of the innovation resources were geared to juniors, seniors and grad students. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv80zjX6HZc&w=560&h=315] Freshman and sophomores weren’t […]
Five Lessons for a Student Ambassador Candidate: Some Short Stories of Excitement, Fear, and Prezi
These thoughts and stories, and whatever messages or lessons they may convey, are not limited to the experiences of Student Ambassadors. Perhaps one of the most significant strengths of the NCIIA Student Ambassador program is its ability to quite accurately simulate student entrepreneurship; the two are not mutually exclusive! What it means to dive head-first […]
Berkeley Students Help Land $20MM From Jacobs Foundation for Design Institute
Jared Karp and Adam Eastman describe the sequence of events over one academic year which helped catalyze a student-led movement in the innovation culture on campus. New! Timeline for sequence of events posted below. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZziMZC5RD4Y&w=560&h=315] We got word of the $20 million gift on Monday afternoon and 78 hours later, we were able to […]
Attention: This is a matter of national security.
Secret Agents Wanted. Report to ASEE Booth #417. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/68241834 w=500&h=281] We are recruiting operatives for the Fall training. Faculty and Administration should report to the Epicenter Booth at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) to learn why the country’s future, not to mention the future of your engineering school, will only be secured […]
The Cat’s Out of the Bag
by Humera Fasihuddin Update 7pm 6/19: And the standings have been announced! See below for each team’s placement and prize. Today, I have the great honor of awarding a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner for the ninth year of the BMEidea Awards. The top three represent the finest in student innovations addressing real clinical […]
List of Seed Funding Sources For Student Ventures
by Humera Fasihuddin Finding seed funding for your venture while you’re going to school can be a tricky thing. There are sources of funding out there, you just need to do a bit of ‘hustling’ to get it. Here’s a list of EARLY STAGE funding resources, including grants, business plan competitions, sources of loans and […]
Create Something Every Day: A Guide to Becoming a Producer
By Elliot Roth CREATORS CREATE to hone their CREATIVITY. Engineers are artists. The best of them are making something everyday to exercise their creativity and problem-solving abilities. But, all too often intention is overshadowed by procrastination. Everyone is guilty of procrastination. It’s easy to promise yourself that you’ll do something but it’s a different matter […]
Free Online Courses To Ready the Entrepreneurial Mindset, According to Student Ambassadors
Student Ambassador-curated Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) and Innovation Resources Stanford, MIT, Johns Hopkins and many others are offering free online classes to give learners independent opportunities to pursue education without the diploma, of course. Add, yes, there are many lists of free online courses, many of which are good and a bunch of which […]
INFOGRAPHIC: The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Source: ODesk and Millenial Branding, The Future of Work Thank you to ODesk and Millenial Branding for conducting this study and producing an awesome infographic that articulates the mindset of our Student Ambassadors. Our Student Ambassadors, most of whom are engineers, have “seen the light’. They have come to realize that through engineering, they can […]
Is It Ever Okay to Skip Class? A Two-Minute Checklist for the Student Entrepreneur
By Blake Marggraff When it comes to balancing your efforts as a student entrepreneur and campus ambassador with school, choices that once seemed black and white suddenly tend to blend together. Sure, a few late nights (early mornings?) here and there don’t seem too bad, but in a world where assignments and exams already fluctuate […]
Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Community as a Student Leader
By Sean Newman Maroni Building a university entrepreneurial community is unlike any other student leadership role. As a student leader of NC State’s Entrepreneurship Initiative for the last three years, I’ve learned a lot about sparking entrepreneurship and why many university entrepreneurship programs fail. This article is the first of a 12-part series on cultivating […]
Great Product
I am ruthless! Thank you, @BenEinstein of Bolt, for articulating the INSTINCTS and RUTHLESSNESS required to bring a great product into the world.
Four Student Ambassadors Launch Innovation Space Venture, BetaVersity
Congratulations to Student Ambassadors Sean Maroni (NCSU), Lucas Arzola (UC Davis), Blake Marggraff (Washington University St. Louis), and Jared Karp (UC Berkeley) who launched BetaVersity this past April. BetaVersity designs and installs prototyping labs and ‘design kitchens’ for students to not only cook up new ideas, but also to make them a reality. For a […]
Congratulations Class of 2013
This Is Water: A Commencement Address Worth Bookmarking This is Water from Patrick Buckley on Vimeo. “This Is Water” is a video interpretation of the famous 2005 Commencement address delivered by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College (read the backstory about this inspiring video created by LA-based production shop, The Glossary, and the WSJ article […]
I-Start Makes Launching a Competition a Breeze
Student Ambassadors and University leaders take note, the Kauffman Foundation has made it a whole lot easier to get up and running with your own campus competition! I-Start is an online tool that allows anyone to set up and manage a business plan, business model or design competition. The Kauffman Foundation acquired the platform in […]
Biomimicry, Berkeley and Whole Foods
What does the study of Biomimicry, Berkeley University and Whole Foods have in common? Boys growing mushrooms, that’s what. But first, let me tell you why this is on my radar screen. I was recently invited to review Stage 2 applications for The Biomimicry Design Challenge (visit the link to see the submissions that made […]
Makers Earning $45K After High School, Our Future Innovators
Today show segment showcases exciting new program that’s ‘making makers’ within high school. According to the segment, The unemployment rate for people under the age of 25 is 16.2%, double the national average. A new program in Massachusetts is designed to train students in advanced manufacturing, robotics and precision machining to satisfy the predicted 100,000 […]
April 2013 Issue of Harvard Business Review Includes Steve Blank and Lean Startup Methodology
The April issue of Harvard Business Review features a must-read article from Steve Blank on the acclaimed Lean Startup Methodology being deployed widely in the technology venture development circles. This is an especially exciting development for two reasons: 1) While HBR has published widely on management issues faced by large and established companies, it hasn’t […]
Art + Engineering = Employment
Your opportunities for employment post-graduation are directly correlated with the fields you pursue and the activities in which you are engaged. Should I bother getting a college education? If this is what you are asking yourself, I suggest you re-frame the question. Ask yourself instead, “Should I bother going to college to pursue a degree […]
Chelsea Clinton Gets to the STEM of Gender Inequality on Huff Post
In an excellent piece released today on Huffington Post, Chelsea Clinton articulates the reasons why the time is now for gender equality in STEM. We need to better harness the curiosity, imagination and inventive spirit of the other half of the globe’s population. Until we do, we are sub-optimum at a time when the world’s […]
UC Berkeley Ambassador Speaks at Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
Jared Karp, Student Ambassador from University of California Berkeley, spoke at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in an event entitled, “Spaces of Invention.” The six-speaker event, held as part of the NCIIA Open Conference in Collaboration with Epicenter and was delivered Pecha Kucha-style (also known in some circles as an Ignite talk). In 15 […]
Robert Tercek Delivers Riveting Address at 17th Annual OPEN Conference
Twenty Student Ambassadors sat at the edge of their seats for today’s lunch keynote by Robert Tercek who spoke about the future of many of today’s companies driven by change sin mobile and information technology. Ten Student Ambassadors waited in line to meet Tercek, run an idea by him or invite him to keynote their […]
Macklemore! Purdue Makes Engineering Cool
Student Ambassadors welcome nine new candidates this week at the OPEN Conference in Washington D.C., including an undergraduate and graduate student from Purdue. Between the commitment to train two engineering towards the student-led movement to expand Innovation and Entrepreneurship activity and this AMAZINGLY COOL engineering parody of “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, there’s […]
Penn State Student Trades Pen for Ford 250 Truck in 8-wk Trader Challenge
The culmination of the much-anticipated Trader Challenge yielded an undisputed win by Joe Marcus whose most recent trade was a Ford 250 Truck for a Bowflex PR3000 Home Gym. According to reports in the campus paper, Penn State’s Daily Collegian, “His goal was to get a more reliable four-wheel drive car for his father […]
