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<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
<br />
== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
<br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== BME Advanced Design &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!<br />
</div></div></div><br />
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
<br />
== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
<br />
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
<br />
= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience.<br />
<br />
== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students.<br />
<br />
== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
<br />
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br />
<br />
== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
<br />
== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.<br />
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<br />
= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Analysis =<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://docs.google.com/a/virginia.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkrqaIK8NuM2dGtDQjYwZ2U5U25MckZ4SktmcFhOLWc&usp=drive_web#gid=0/ Landscape Analysis]</span><br />
<br />
= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategic Plans =<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:medium;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/UVA_University_Student_Priorities/ Strategic Plans]</span></div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:University_of_Virginia&diff=7694School:University of Virginia2014-04-06T22:38:37Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
<br />
== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
<br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== BME Advanced Design &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!<br />
</div></div></div><br />
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
<br />
== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
<br />
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
<br />
= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience.<br />
<br />
== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students.<br />
<br />
== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
<br />
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br />
<br />
== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
<br />
== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Analysis =<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://docs.google.com/a/virginia.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkrqaIK8NuM2dGtDQjYwZ2U5U25MckZ4SktmcFhOLWc&usp=drive_web#gid=0/ Landscape Analysis]</span><br />
<br />
= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategic Plans =<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:medium;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/UVA_University_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/UVA_University_Student_Priorities/ Strategic Plans]</span></div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:University_of_Virginia&diff=7693School:University of Virginia2014-04-06T22:37:31Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
<br />
== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
<br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== BME Advanced Design &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!<br />
</div></div></div><br />
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
<br />
== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
<br />
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
<br />
= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience.<br />
<br />
== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students.<br />
<br />
== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
<br />
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br />
<br />
== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
<br />
== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Analysis =<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://docs.google.com/a/virginia.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkrqaIK8NuM2dGtDQjYwZ2U5U25MckZ4SktmcFhOLWc&usp=drive_web#gid=0/ Landscape Analysis]</span><br />
<br />
= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategic Plans =<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:medium;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/UVA_University_Student_Priorities</span><br />
<br />
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<hr />
<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
<br />
== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
<br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== BME Advanced Design &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!<br />
</div></div></div><br />
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
<br />
== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
<br />
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
<br />
= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience.<br />
<br />
== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students.<br />
<br />
== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
<br />
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br />
<br />
== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
<br />
== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Analysis =<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://docs.google.com/a/virginia.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkrqaIK8NuM2dGtDQjYwZ2U5U25MckZ4SktmcFhOLWc&amp;usp=drive_web#gid=0/Landscape Analysis]</span><br />
<br />
= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategic Plans =<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:medium;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/UVA_University_Student_Priorities</span><br />
<br />
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<hr />
<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
<br />
== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== BME Advanced Design &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ==<br />
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BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!<br />
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= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
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== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
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The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
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= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
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The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
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= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
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== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
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Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience.<br />
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== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
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Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students.<br />
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== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
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A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
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= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
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== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br />
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== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
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== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
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The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.<br />
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= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Analysis =<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://docs.google.com/a/virginia.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkrqaIK8NuM2dGtDQjYwZ2U5U25MckZ4SktmcFhOLWc&usp=drive_web#gid=0 [https://docs.google.com/a/virginia.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkrqaIK8NuM2dGtDQjYwZ2U5U25MckZ4SktmcFhOLWc&amp;usp=drive_web#gid=0/ Landscape Analysis]</span><br />
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= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategic Plans =<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/UVA_University_Student_Priorities</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"></span></div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:UVA_University_Student_Priorities&diff=7690Priorities:UVA University Student Priorities2014-04-06T22:24:44Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<div>The [[University of Virginia|University of Virginia]] UIF team will create a physical space for Health Innovation and Incubation as the centerpiece of our future plans. The space will be housed in a emergant tech incubator, HackCville, and we will partner with their mission and culture of design, mentorship and self-starter ingenuity. Our stratedgy addresses the gaps identified in our landscaping of UVa's I&E capacity; while there are a multitude of programs and accessible funding avaible on grounds, they are restricted by student-organization transience and their lack of coordination and. We can develop the connectivity needed to to field projects and support them fully from upstream to downstream by riding off of the exisiting momentum and experience in the tech-entrepreneurship field. The proximity to this work is helping to foster a healthy new culture at UVa; under the new physical location and presence we plan to build out new events and programing to create visibility on campus. These include the Lawn Innovation Invation, the Grit Challenge, the Medical Hackathon and IdeasEverwhere Walls- elaborated upon below.<br />
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== Grit challenge ==<br />
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In 2013 the MacAuthur Genius Award was bestowed upon Angela Duckworth for defining the term "Grit" as the best metric of sucess.<br />
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This will be a challenge designed to counter the typical one-off nature of traditional buisness competions and pitches that focus on how well an idea is presented at one point in time. Wise speakers at NCIIA warned us about the dangers of extoling a singular idea instead of the people or process, and honestly we see that play out when the winners of business competitions are more incentivised to dress-up and idea than propel it forward. In order to shift these expectations, we propose to design a competition that measures the fearlessness and reckless abandon of true entrepreneurs on a mission- the tenacity to start scrappy, shoot high, allow onesself to fail in a productive way, in which they are able to use it experientially to propel themselves further forward; true GRIT! We are experimenting with the idea of shaping the challenge into 1 month segments, starting with a low opperational budget of $10 and incrementally increasing amounts of award money for those able to stay in the rounds. This also teaches an important lesson in establishing credibility for those starting with next to nothing, through incrementally growing steps and quantification of sucess to show to possible investors/supporters.&nbsp;<br />
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== <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Medical Hackathon</span></span> ==<br />
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*<font size="3">'''Description:''' A short term goal of the UVa Leadership Circle is to host a medical hackathon to get hundreds of students involved in health care entrepreneurship at UVa in a fun, relaxing, and engaging way. The student run organization that will put the hackathon together will be a new student run club called Emerging Medical Technology Ventures or EMTV. The end goal of the hackathon is two fold: 1) recruit young students of different backgrounds and majors to join EMTV and 2) have hackathon participants carry out projects that result from the hackathon. &nbsp;A medical hackathon could serve as the spark for serious undegraduate involvement in healthcare and medical technology innovation. The reason for emphasis on recruiting young students is to help ensure that the UVa community can continually become engaged in medical technology and healthcare innovation for at least 3 years as demonstrated by additional hackathons and successful project grant applications.</font><br />
*<span style="font-size: medium">'''Team Leaders:''' &nbsp;[[Dasha Tyshlek|Dasha Tyshlek]], [[Rachel Smith|Rachel Smith]], Kelly Thomas, [[Anish dalal|Anish Dalal]], Alex Zorychta, and David Chen (Director of UVA Coulter Foundation Program)</span><br />
*'''<span style="font-size: medium">Milestones:</span>'''<br />
*<font size="3">Attend a large scale and professional medical hackathon to determine optimal ways of hosting them</font><br />
*<font size="3">Recruit at least five 1st or 2nd year students to help organize first hackathon and eventually lead EMT</font><br />
*<font size="3">Obtain faculty advisors who have medicine, engineering, and/or business backgrounds to advise on design challenges for hackathons and provide additional mentorship to students who pursue projects after hackathons</font><br />
*<font size="3">Have at least 3 hackathon projects within 2 years to place in the University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup or obtain some sort of competitive funding</font><br />
*<font size="3">At least one startup formed within 5 years</font><br />
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'''<span style="font-size:x-large;">Our Pitch</span>'''<font size="3">: [http://youtu.be/N3NIAD2ral0 [1]]</font><br />
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<u>'''<font size="3">Related Links</font>'''</u><br />
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<span style="font-size:large;">UVA Page</span>: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia]<br />
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<span style="font-size:large;">Anish's Page:&nbsp;</span>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anish_Dalal http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anish_Dalal]<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dasha's Page:&nbsp;</span>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Dasha_Tyshlek http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Dasha_Tyshlek]<br />
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<span style="font-size:large;">Rachel's Page:&nbsp;</span>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rachel_Smith http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rachel_Smith]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:University_of_Virginia&diff=7689School:University of Virginia2014-04-06T22:23:54Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
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== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
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== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
<br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== BME Advanced Design &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!<br />
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= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
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== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
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The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
<br />
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
<br />
= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience.<br />
<br />
== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students.<br />
<br />
== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
<br />
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br />
<br />
== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
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== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
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The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.<br />
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= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Analysis =<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://docs.google.com/a/virginia.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkrqaIK8NuM2dGtDQjYwZ2U5U25MckZ4SktmcFhOLWc&usp=drive_web#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/a/virginia.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkrqaIK8NuM2dGtDQjYwZ2U5U25MckZ4SktmcFhOLWc&amp;usp=drive_web#gid=0]</span><br />
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= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategic Plans =<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/UVA_University_Student_Priorities</span><br />
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<div>The [[University of Virginia|University of Virginia]] UIF team will create a physical space for Health Innovation and Incubation as the centerpiece of our future plans. The space will be housed in a emergant tech incubator, HackCville, and we will partner with their mission and culture of design, mentorship and self-starter ingenuity. Our stratedgy addresses the gaps identified in our landscaping of UVa's I&E capacity; while there are a multitude of programs and accessible funding avaible on grounds, they are restricted by student-organization transience and their lack of coordination and. We can develop the connectivity needed to to field projects and support them fully from upstream to downstream by riding off of the exisiting momentum and experience in the tech-entrepreneurship field. The proximity to this work is helping to foster a healthy new culture at UVa; under the new physical location and presence we plan to build out new events and programing to create visibility on campus. These include the Lawn Innovation Invation, the Grit Challenge, the Medical Hackathon and IdeasEverwhere Walls- elaborated upon below.<br />
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== Grit challenge ==<br />
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In 2013 the MacAuthur Genius Award was bestowed upon Angela Duckworth for defining the term "Grit" as the best metric of sucess.<br />
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This will be a challenge designed to counter the typical one-off nature of traditional buisness competions and pitches that focus on how well an idea is presented at one point in time. Wise speakers at NCIIA warned us about the dangers of extoling a singular idea instead of the people or process, and honestly we see that play out when the winners of business competitions are more incentivised to dress-up and idea than propel it forward. In order to shift these expectations, we propose to design a competition that measures the fearlessness and reckless abandon of true entrepreneurs on a mission- the tenacity to start scrappy, shoot high, allow onesself to fail in a productive way, in which they are able to use it experientially to propel themselves further forward; true GRIT! We are experimenting with the idea of shaping the challenge into 1 month segments, starting with a low opperational budget of $10 and incrementally increasing amounts of award money for those able to stay in the rounds. This also teaches an important lesson in establishing credibility for those starting with next to nothing, through incrementally growing steps and quantification of sucess to show to possible investors/supporters.&nbsp;<br />
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== <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Medical Hackathon</span></span> ==<br />
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*<font size="3">'''Description:''' A short term goal of the UVa Leadership Circle is to host a medical hackathon to get hundreds of students involved in health care entrepreneurship at UVa in a fun, relaxing, and engaging way. The student run organization that will put the hackathon together will be a new student run club called Emerging Medical Technology Ventures or EMTV. The end goal of the hackathon is two fold: 1) recruit young students of different backgrounds and majors to join EMTV and 2) have hackathon participants carry out projects that result from the hackathon. &nbsp;A medical hackathon could serve as the spark for serious undegraduate involvement in healthcare and medical technology innovation. The reason for emphasis on recruiting young students is to help ensure that the UVa community can continually become engaged in medical technology and healthcare innovation for at least 3 years as demonstrated by additional hackathons and successful project grant applications.</font><br />
*<span style="font-size: medium">'''Team Leaders:''' &nbsp;[[Dasha Tyshlek|Dasha Tyshlek]], [[Rachel Smith|Rachel Smith]], Kelly Thomas, [[Anish dalal|Anish Dalal]], Alex Zorychta, and David Chen (Director of UVA Coulter Foundation Program)</span><br />
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*<font size="3">Attend a large scale and professional medical hackathon to determine optimal ways of hosting them</font><br />
*<font size="3">Recruit at least five 1st or 2nd year students to help organize first hackathon and eventually lead EMT</font><br />
*<font size="3">Obtain faculty advisors who have medicine, engineering, and/or business backgrounds to advise on design challenges for hackathons and provide additional mentorship to students who pursue projects after hackathons</font><br />
*<font size="3">Have at least 3 hackathon projects within 2 years to place in the University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup or obtain some sort of competitive funding</font><br />
*<font size="3">At least one startup formed within 5 years</font><br />
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<span style="font-size:large;">UVA Page</span>: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia]<br />
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<span style="font-size:large;">Anish's Page:&nbsp;</span>http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anish_Dalal<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dasha's Page:&nbsp;</span>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Dasha_Tyshlek http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Dasha_Tyshlek]<br />
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<font size="3">Anish is a 3rd year Biomedical engineering major and Engineering Business minor at the University of Virginia. Much of his work has focused on the cardiovascular system. He has been a research assitant in the Cardiac Systems Biology laboratory for over a year and a half and is collaborating with various researchers to study mechanisms that can cause heart failure. Anish received funding from the UVa SEAS Entrepreneurship Cup competition for pitching a mobile Congestive Heart Failure monitor that can quantify the progression of certain symptoms and help improve treatment. He is currently collaborating with researchers in the Electrical Engineering Department on build a working prototype and this experience has sparked his interest in entrepreneurship. In his spare time, Anish loves to play any sport, cheer on the UVa basketball team, and hangout with friends.</font><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<font size="3">Anish is a 3rd year Biomedical engineering major and Engineering Business minor at the University of Virginia. Much of his work has focused on the cardiovascular system. He has been a research assitant in the Cardiac Systems Biology laboratory for over a year and a half and is collaborating with various researchers to study mechanisms that can cause heart failure. Anish received funding from the UVa SEAS Entrepreneurship Cup competition for pitching a mobile Congestive Heart Failure monitor that can quantify the progression of certain symptoms and help improve treatment. He is currently collaborating with researchers in the Electrical Engineering Department on build a working prototype and this experience has sparked his interest in entrepreneurship. In his spare time, Anish loves to play any sport, cheer on the UVa basketball team, and hangout with friends.</font><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<div></div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Anish_Dalal&diff=7681Fellow:Anish Dalal2014-04-06T21:46:15Z<p>Anish dalal: Created page with "<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Bio'''</span></span> <font size="3">Anish is a 3rd year Biomedical engineering m..."</p>
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<font size="3">Anish is a 3rd year Biomedical engineering major and Engineering Business minor at the University of Virginia. Much of his work has focused on the cardiovascular system. He has been a research assitant in the Cardiac Systems Biology laboratory for over a year and a half and is collaborating with various researchers to study mechanisms that can cause heart failure. Anish received funding from the UVa SEAS Entrepreneurship Cup competition for pitching a mobile Congestive Heart Failure monitor that can quantify the progression of certain symptoms and help improve treatment. He is currently collaborating with researchers in the Electrical Engineering Department on build a working prototype and this experience has sparked his interest in entrepreneurship. In his spare time, Anish loves to play any sport, cheer on the UVa basketball team, and hangout with friends.</font><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'''EMTV'''</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span><br />
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0COqczDyyU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0COqczDyyU]<br />
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<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
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== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
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The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
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== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== BME Advanced Design &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ==<br />
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BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!<br />
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= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
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== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
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The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
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== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
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The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
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= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
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== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
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Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience.<br />
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== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
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Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students.<br />
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== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
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A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
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== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br />
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== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
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== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
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The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.<br />
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= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Analysis =<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">https://docs.google.com/a/virginia.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkrqaIK8NuM2dGtDQjYwZ2U5U25MckZ4SktmcFhOLWc&usp=drive_web#gid=0</span></div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:University_of_Virginia&diff=7678School:University of Virginia2014-04-06T21:38:11Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
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== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
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The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
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== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== BME Advanced Design &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ==<br />
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BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!<br />
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= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
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== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
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The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
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= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
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The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
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= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
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== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
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Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience.<br />
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== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
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Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students.<br />
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== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
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A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
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= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
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== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br />
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== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
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== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
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The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<font size="3">Anish is a 3rd year Biomedical engineering major and Engineering Business minor at the University of Virginia. Much of his work has focused on the cardiovascular system. He has been a research assitant in the Cardiac Systems Biology laboratory for over a year and a half and is collaborating with various researchers to study mechanisms that can cause heart failure. Anish received funding from the UVa SEAS Entrepreneurship Cup competition for pitching a mobile Congestive Heart Failure monitor that can quantify the progression of certain symptoms and help improve treatment. He is currently collaborating with researchers in the Electrical Engineering Department on build a working prototype and this experience has sparked his interest in entrepreneurship. In his spare time, Anish loves to play any sport, cheer on the UVa basketball team, and hangout with friends.</font><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<font size="3">Anish is a 3rd year Biomedical engineering major and Engineering Business minor at the University of Virginia. Much of his work has focused on the cardiovascular system. He has been a research assitant in the Cardiac Systems Biology laboratory for over a year and a half and is collaborating with various researchers to study mechanisms that can cause heart failure. Anish received funding from the UVa SEAS Entrepreneurship Cup competition for pitching a mobile Congestive Heart Failure monitor that can quantify the progression of certain symptoms and help improve treatment. He is currently collaborating with researchers in the Electrical Engineering Department on build a working prototype and this experience has sparked his interest in entrepreneurship. In his spare time, Anish loves to play any sport, cheer on the UVa basketball team, and hangout with friends.</font><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<font size="3">Anish is a 3rd year Biomedical engineering major and Engineering Business minor at the University of Virginia. Much of his work has focused on the cardiovascular system. He has been a research assitant in the Cardiac Systems Biology laboratory for over a year and a half and is collaborating with various researchers to study mechanisms that can cause heart failure. Anish received funding from the UVa SEAS Entrepreneurship Cup competition for pitching a mobile Congestive Heart Failure monitor that can quantify the progression of certain symptoms and help improve treatment. He is currently collaborating with researchers in the Electrical Engineering Department on build a working prototype and this experience has sparked his interest in entrepreneurship. In his spare time, Anish loves to play any sport, cheer on the UVa basketball team, and hangout with friends.</font><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<font size="3">Anish is a 3rd year Biomedical engineering major and Engineering Business minor at the University of Virginia. Much of his work has focused on the cardiovascular system. He has been a research assitant in the Cardiac Systems Biology laboratory for over a year and a half and is collaborating with various researchers to study mechanisms that can cause heart failure. Anish received funding from the UVa SEAS Entrepreneurship Cup competition for pitching a mobile Congestive Heart Failure monitor that can quantify the progression of certain symptoms and help improve treatment. He is currently collaborating with researchers in the Electrical Engineering Department on build a working prototype and this experience has sparked his interest in entrepreneurship. In his spare time, Anish loves to play any sport, cheer on the UVa basketball team, and hangout with friends.</font><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span><br />
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== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
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The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
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== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
<br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== BME Advanced Design &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
<u></u>BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!<br />
</div></div></div><br />
<br />
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
<br />
== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
<br />
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
<br />
= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience. <br />
<br />
== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students. <br />
<br />
== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
<br />
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br/><br />
<br />
== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
<br />
== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:University_of_Virginia&diff=6595School:University of Virginia2014-04-03T20:07:32Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
<br />
== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
<br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><div>http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about</div><br />
<br />
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
<br />
== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
<br />
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
<br />
= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience. <br />
<br />
== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students. <br />
<br />
== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
<br />
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br/><br />
<br />
== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
<br />
== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:University_of_Virginia&diff=6594School:University of Virginia2014-04-03T20:06:17Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
<br />
== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
<br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div><br/></div><br />
<br />
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
<br />
== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
<br />
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
<br />
= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience. <br />
<br />
== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students. <br />
<br />
== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
<br />
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br/><br />
<br />
== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
<br />
== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:University_of_Virginia&diff=6593School:University of Virginia2014-04-03T20:05:22Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
<br />
== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:</span><br />
<br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div><br />
&lt;/div&gt;<br />
<div><br/></div><br />
&lt;/div&gt;<br />
<br />
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
<br />
== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
<br />
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
<br />
= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience. <br />
<br />
== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students. <br />
<br />
== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
<br />
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br/><br />
<br />
== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
<br />
== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:University_of_Virginia&diff=6592School:University of Virginia2014-04-03T20:05:03Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
<br />
== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==<br />
<div><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by&nbsp;[http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition.&nbsp;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are 9 total tracks:<br/></span><br />
<br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education<br/></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Commerce</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Law</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UVa Wise</span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering<br/></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of&nbsp;[http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span><br />
</div></div><div><br/></div></div><br />
<br />
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
<br />
== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
<br />
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
<br />
= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience. <br />
<br />
== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students. <br />
<br />
== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
<br />
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br/><br />
<br />
== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
<br />
== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:University_of_Virginia&diff=6591School:University of Virginia2014-04-03T19:54:11Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Virginia Venture Fund<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.<br />
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== Enactus ==<br />
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ==<br />
<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group at UVA] engages students with high-quality programming. This organization invites world-class speakers and entrepreneurs to speak to our members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firms, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning and doing. EG's officers organize creative workshops to educate students in design thinking and rapid prototyping. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks to establish a network of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for students, professors, and alumni to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div><br />
== Parfait ==<br />
<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projects, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completion. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/></div><br />
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==<br />
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div><br />
== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==<br />
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div></div><br />
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= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =<br />
<br />
== The E*Society&nbsp; ==<br />
<br />
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.<br />
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= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:120.0%; font-family:calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color:#000000; text-align:left">Licensing & Ventures Group </span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]<br />
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= University-Industry Collaboration<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Rolls-Royce<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience. <br />
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== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program<br/> ==<br />
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Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students. <br />
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== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program<br/> ==<br />
<br />
A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group&nbsp; and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).<br />
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= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =<br />
<br />
== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.</span><br/><br />
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== HackCville<br/> ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span><br />
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== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN)<br/> ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4909Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-28T00:32:30Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<div>[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is an annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;&#x5B;&#x5B;File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png&#x5D;&#x5D;<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/ http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/]<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus and through the outreach program, attract motivated and talented high school students.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for forming an event similar to BOOM on your campus:<br />
<br />
#Talk to faculty about encouraging students to share class and capstone projects with the entire university. Host a fun competition that will showcase interdisciplinary work done by both undergraduate and graduate students.&nbsp;<br />
#Provide large incentive for students to participate in the showcase. Collaborate with the faculty to attract &nbsp;representatives from local and large companies to make the showcase a recruiting event. A good strategy for this is to contact alumni who visit for career fairs to attend the event.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
[mailto:boom.students@cs.cornell.edu <b>boom.students@cs.cornell.edu</b>]<br />
<br />
= Resources =</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4675Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T07:14:31Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview = [http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is an annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;&#x5B;&#x5B;File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png&#x5D;&#x5D;<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus and through the outreach program, attract motivated and talented high school students.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for forming an event similar to BOOM on your campus:<br />
<br />
#Talk to faculty about encouraging students to share class and capstone projects with the entire university. Host a fun competition that will showcase interdisciplinary work done by both undergraduate and graduate students.&nbsp;<br />
#Provide large incentive for students to participate in the showcase. Collaborate with the faculty to attract &nbsp;representatives from local and large companies to make the showcase a recruiting event. A good strategy for this is to contact alumni who visit for career fairs to attend the event.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
[mailto:boom.students@cs.cornell.edu '''boom.students@cs.cornell.edu''']<br />
<br />
= Resources =</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4674Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T07:13:06Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is an annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus and through the outreach program, attract motivated and talented high school students.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for forming an event similar to BOOM on your campus:<br />
<br />
#Talk to faculty about encouraging students to share class and capstone projects with the entire university. Host a fun competition that will showcase interdisciplinary work done by both undergraduate and graduate students.&nbsp;<br />
#Provide large incentive for students to participate in the showcase. Collaborate with the faculty to attract &nbsp;representatives from local and large companies to make the showcase a recruiting event. A good strategy for this is to contact alumni who visit for career fairs to attend the event.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
[mailto:boom.students@cs.cornell.edu '''boom.students@cs.cornell.edu''']<br />
<br />
= Resources =</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4605Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:36:46Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus and through the outreach program, attract motivated and talented high school students.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for forming an event similar to BOOM on your campus:<br />
<br />
#Talk to faculty about encouraging students to share class and capstone projects with the entire university. Host a fun competition that will showcase interdisciplinary work done by both undergraduate and graduate students.&nbsp;<br />
#Provide large incentive for students to participate in the showcase. Collaborate with the faculty to attract &nbsp;representatives from local and large companies to make the showcase a recruiting event. A good strategy for this is to contact alumni who visit for career fairs to attend the event.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
[mailto:boom.students@cs.cornell.edu '''boom.students@cs.cornell.edu''']<br />
<br />
= Resources =</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4604Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:36:24Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus and through the outreach program, attract motivated and talented high school students.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for forming an event similar to BOOM on your campus:<br />
<br />
#Talk to faculty about encouraging students to share class and capstone projects with the entire university. Host a fun competition that will showcase interdisciplinary work done by both undergraduate and graduate students.&nbsp;<br />
#Provide large incentive for students to participate in the showcase. Collaborate with the faculty to attract &nbsp;representatives from local and large companies to make the showcase a recruiting event. A good strategy for this is to contact alumni who visit for career fairs to attend the event.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
[mailto:boom.students@cs.cornell.edu '''boom.students@cs.cornell.edu''']<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4603Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:35:25Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus and through the outreach program, attract motivated and talented high school students.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for forming an event similar to BOOM on your campus:<br />
<br />
#Talk to faculty about encouraging students to share class and capstone projects with the entire university. Host a fun competition that will showcase interdisciplinary work done by both undergraduate and graduate students.&nbsp;<br />
#Provide large incentive for students to participate in the showcase. Collaborate with the faculty to attract &nbsp;representatives from local and large companies to make the showcase a recruiting event. A good strategy for this is to contact alumni who visit for career fairs to attend the event.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4602Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:34:17Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus and through the outreach program, attract motivated and talented high school students.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for forming an event similar to BOOM on your campus:<br />
<br />
#Talk to faculty about encouraging students to share class and capstone projects with the entire university. Host a fun competition that will showcase interdisciplinary work done by both undergraduate and graduate students.&nbsp;<br />
#Provide large incentive for students to participate in the showcase. Collaborate with the faculty to attract &nbsp;representatives from local and large companies to make the showcase a recruiting event. A good strategy for this is to&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4600Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:30:55Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus and through the outreach program, attract motivated and talented high school students.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for forming an event similar to BOOM on your campus:<br />
<br />
#Talk to faculty about encouraging students to share class and capstone projects with the entire university. Host a compet<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4594Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:28:18Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus and through the outreach program, attract motivated and talented high school students.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4593Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:27:52Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus and with the outreach program, attract motivated and talented high school students.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4592Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:27:08Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
Bottom line: BOOM gets the Cornell campus excited about student innovation. Classmates have the chance to show each other the efforts of their hard work, to promote innovation by exciting younger students, and to land a job at a well known and prestigious company. For Cornell University as a whole, BOOM enhances its reputation as an innovative campus.<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4591Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:21:53Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
== K-12 Outreach Program ==<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.968000411987305px;">BOOM is free and open to the public. Middle school and High school students and their teachers often attend BOOM. There are special pre-event presentation and showcase sneak peaks available to school groups where they have the opportunity to meet with the Cornell student presenters prior to the general public’s arrival. All BOOM attendees will be able to&nbsp; participate in demonstrations and vote on their favorite project. Last year in BOOM 2013, the Ithaca High School Robotics Club had the opportunity to demonstrate their work before the event. This outreach program gets students excitied about technological innovation even before they are in college.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
<br />
http://boom.cornell.edu/students-and-faculty/outreach/<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
*Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students). &nbsp;Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (''a) ''give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans''''', ('''b'')'''&nbsp;c'''reate a role-model/success story, ''(c)''&nbsp;build support for this lifestyle as a career path.<br />
*By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4588Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:12:32Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. Most schools have fairs that showcase research and class projects but they do not provide powerful incentives and stakes to the extent that BOOM does. The corporate sponsorship adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
[http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds]<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
*Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students). &nbsp;Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (''a) ''give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans''''', ('''b'')'''&nbsp;c'''reate a role-model/success story, ''(c)''&nbsp;build support for this lifestyle as a career path.<br />
*By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
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<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
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[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4587Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:10:43Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
The corporate sponsorship at BOOM plays a large role in attracting students to the event. Big and prestigious companies in different industries such as Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Golman Sachs send representatives to recruit at BOOM. This adds extra incentive for students to continue their projects and build new inventions.<br />
<br />
http://www.cornell.edu/video/boom-2013-bits-on-our-minds<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
*Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students). &nbsp;Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (''a) ''give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans''''', ('''b'')'''&nbsp;c'''reate a role-model/success story, ''(c)''&nbsp;build support for this lifestyle as a career path.<br />
*By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4586Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-27T00:03:18Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. These class help continue the increase in the number of quality projects at BOOM.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
Venture for America appeals to young professionals in a few ways:<br />
<br />
*Prestige: looks good on a resume and has the reputation of attracting ivy league talent<br />
*Progress: brings young professionals to the next level in their careers<br />
*Opportunity: keeps doors open<br />
*Money: workers are compensated for their work<br />
*Skills: fellows gain skills and training for anything and everything they will face<br />
*Community: fellows build a sense of community with other inspired individuals<br />
*Public Service: Fellows are doing a public good, both for local communities and America<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
*Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students). &nbsp;Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (''a) ''give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans''''', ('''b'')'''&nbsp;c'''reate a role-model/success story, ''(c)''&nbsp;build support for this lifestyle as a career path.<br />
*By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4584Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-26T23:46:41Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Constant Influx of Quality Projects ==<br />
<br />
A large amount of projects at BOOM originated as class projects. There are many classes at Cornell University that involve the creation and the implementation of digital technologies. This is especially the case in the Information and Computer Science Department where there are classes on video game design and robotics. Cornell University and its faculty recognize the number of creative and exciting projects students work on in class or independently. This ensures that the number of quality projects at BOOM do not decline.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
Venture for America appeals to young professionals in a few ways:<br />
<br />
*Prestige: looks good on a resume and has the reputation of attracting ivy league talent<br />
*Progress: brings young professionals to the next level in their careers<br />
*Opportunity: keeps doors open<br />
*Money: workers are compensated for their work<br />
*Skills: fellows gain skills and training for anything and everything they will face<br />
*Community: fellows build a sense of community with other inspired individuals<br />
*Public Service: Fellows are doing a public good, both for local communities and America<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
*Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students). &nbsp;Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (''a) ''give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans''''', ('''b'')'''&nbsp;c'''reate a role-model/success story, ''(c)''&nbsp;build support for this lifestyle as a career path.<br />
*By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4581Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-26T22:54:52Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is a<span style="font-size:smaller;"></span>n annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and some of the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors. BOOM originally started as a simple science fair that only featured Computer Science students. However, it is now an event that promotes large collaboration across many different departments at Cornell University.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb|Boom2011.png]]<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
According to Amy Fish, the [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/boom-exhibition-shows-digital-projects-all-over BOOM 2008&nbsp;]coordinator, BOOM is a "chance to say, 'Congratulations, you've been working hard. We think your project is really fabulous; let's show it off!"&nbsp;<br />
<br />
In addition to showcasing the creativity and talent of Cornell students, BOOM is also sponsored by well known and large corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin who send representatives to the event for scouting and nurturing of talent.<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Venture for America Fellowship ==<br />
<br />
After acceptance into the program, fellows commit to training and a two year commitment of work.<br />
<br />
Through training, fellows are given the skills to hit the ground running. &nbsp;Training sessions include lectures, visits from investors, website design challenges and practice with business creation. &nbsp;By the end of training, fellows are well versed in finance modeling, sales, public relations, branding, marketing and basic business/office etiquette.<br />
<br />
Fellows are then matched with the company of best fit to them through an intense match-making process including preferences and phone/in person interviews. &nbsp;Companies must be able to show high growth potential (energy, biotech, health, information, technology, consumer markets) and are required to commit to $32-38k in salary (plus benefits), pay $2,500 to fund the fellow's training, and agree to actively growing the candidate (e.g. onthly sit-downs with the CEO).<br />
<br />
Fun Fact: Venture for America will still try and connect applicants with potential start-ups if they are not accepted into the fellowship.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
Venture for America appeals to young professionals in a few ways:<br />
<br />
*Prestige: looks good on a resume and has the reputation of attracting ivy league talent<br />
*Progress: brings young professionals to the next level in their careers<br />
*Opportunity: keeps doors open<br />
*Money: workers are compensated for their work<br />
*Skills: fellows gain skills and training for anything and everything they will face<br />
*Community: fellows build a sense of community with other inspired individuals<br />
*Public Service: Fellows are doing a public good, both for local communities and America<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
*Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students). &nbsp;Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (''a) ''give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans''''', ('''b'')'''&nbsp;c'''reate a role-model/success story, ''(c)''&nbsp;build support for this lifestyle as a career path.<br />
*By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4560Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-26T22:32:43Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Overview =<br />
<br />
[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is an annual showcase of student cutting-edge research in digital technology at Cornell University. It is in its 17th year of running and is organized by the Department of Computing and Information Science in collaboration with the College of Engineering. Cornell students present their projects which feature a variety of disciplines in digital technology such as games, robotics, autonomius vehicles, and smartphone apps. Prizes are awarded to the most creative and innovative projects, and the names of the categories are based of the corporate sponsors.&nbsp;[[File:Boom2011.png|thumb]]<br />
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= Purpose =<br />
<br />
Graduating from Columbia Law School, Andrew Yang was conflicted with what to do for his career. &nbsp;As with many other young professionals, Yang knew the options outside of working on Wall Street were slim and likely career-diverting. &nbsp;After working with, and starting several companies (rising to the rank of CEO in Manhattan GMAT), Yang founded Venture for America, to increase the accessibility to the start-up process for college graduates.<br />
<br />
The problem today is that qualified college graduates crave hands-on business experience to learn how to start a business. &nbsp;Meanwhile, start-up companies struggle to hire due to lack of resources since they have yet to establish their brand. &nbsp;Venture for America bridges this gap; the organization gives companies access to high quality, motivated young workers.<br />
<br />
Overall, the goal is to funnel top young people into American startups, socialize them and provide future structures and role models for others. &nbsp;Venture fo America wishes to rebrand entrepreneurship as the most prestigious professional aspiration, as evident in one of their mottos: "Smart people should build things."&nbsp;<br />
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= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Venture for America Fellowship ==<br />
<br />
After acceptance into the program, fellows commit to training and a two year commitment of work.<br />
<br />
Through training, fellows are given the skills to hit the ground running. &nbsp;Training sessions include lectures, visits from investors, website design challenges and practice with business creation. &nbsp;By the end of training, fellows are well versed in finance modeling, sales, public relations, branding, marketing and basic business/office etiquette.<br />
<br />
Fellows are then matched with the company of best fit to them through an intense match-making process including preferences and phone/in person interviews. &nbsp;Companies must be able to show high growth potential (energy, biotech, health, information, technology, consumer markets) and are required to commit to $32-38k in salary (plus benefits), pay $2,500 to fund the fellow's training, and agree to actively growing the candidate (e.g. onthly sit-downs with the CEO).<br />
<br />
Fun Fact: Venture for America will still try and connect applicants with potential start-ups if they are not accepted into the fellowship.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
Venture for America appeals to young professionals in a few ways:<br />
<br />
*Prestige: looks good on a resume and has the reputation of attracting ivy league talent<br />
*Progress: brings young professionals to the next level in their careers<br />
*Opportunity: keeps doors open<br />
*Money: workers are compensated for their work<br />
*Skills: fellows gain skills and training for anything and everything they will face<br />
*Community: fellows build a sense of community with other inspired individuals<br />
*Public Service: Fellows are doing a public good, both for local communities and America<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
*Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students). &nbsp;Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (''a) ''give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans''''', ('''b'')'''&nbsp;c'''reate a role-model/success story, ''(c)''&nbsp;build support for this lifestyle as a career path.<br />
*By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
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'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
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[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
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''Also see:''<br />
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[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
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[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=File:Boom2011.png&diff=4557File:Boom2011.png2014-02-26T22:26:43Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<div></div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4548Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-26T22:11:01Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<div>= Overview =<br />
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[http://boom.cornell.edu/ BOOM] (Bits On Our Minds)&nbsp;is an annual showcase of student cutting -edge research in digital technology. Modeled after [http://www.teachforamerica.org/ Teach for America], Venture for America seeks to revitalize America through entrepreneurship, while enabling opportunity and restoring an American culture of achievement. Since its inception, the organization has trained almost 100 fellows (today applications exceed availability), given fellows access to upwards of $100k in yearly seed funding and facilitated their placement in cities including Detroit, Cincinatti and New Orleans.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
Graduating from Columbia Law School, Andrew Yang was conflicted with what to do for his career. &nbsp;As with many other young professionals, Yang knew the options outside of working on Wall Street were slim and likely career-diverting. &nbsp;After working with, and starting several companies (rising to the rank of CEO in Manhattan GMAT), Yang founded Venture for America, to increase the accessibility to the start-up process for college graduates.<br />
<br />
The problem today is that qualified college graduates crave hands-on business experience to learn how to start a business. &nbsp;Meanwhile, start-up companies struggle to hire due to lack of resources since they have yet to establish their brand. &nbsp;Venture for America bridges this gap; the organization gives companies access to high quality, motivated young workers.<br />
<br />
Overall, the goal is to funnel top young people into American startups, socialize them and provide future structures and role models for others. &nbsp;Venture fo America wishes to rebrand entrepreneurship as the most prestigious professional aspiration, as evident in one of their mottos: "Smart people should build things."&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Venture for America Fellowship ==<br />
<br />
After acceptance into the program, fellows commit to training and a two year commitment of work.<br />
<br />
Through training, fellows are given the skills to hit the ground running. &nbsp;Training sessions include lectures, visits from investors, website design challenges and practice with business creation. &nbsp;By the end of training, fellows are well versed in finance modeling, sales, public relations, branding, marketing and basic business/office etiquette.<br />
<br />
Fellows are then matched with the company of best fit to them through an intense match-making process including preferences and phone/in person interviews. &nbsp;Companies must be able to show high growth potential (energy, biotech, health, information, technology, consumer markets) and are required to commit to $32-38k in salary (plus benefits), pay $2,500 to fund the fellow's training, and agree to actively growing the candidate (e.g. onthly sit-downs with the CEO).<br />
<br />
Fun Fact: Venture for America will still try and connect applicants with potential start-ups if they are not accepted into the fellowship.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
Venture for America appeals to young professionals in a few ways:<br />
<br />
*Prestige: looks good on a resume and has the reputation of attracting ivy league talent<br />
*Progress: brings young professionals to the next level in their careers<br />
*Opportunity: keeps doors open<br />
*Money: workers are compensated for their work<br />
*Skills: fellows gain skills and training for anything and everything they will face<br />
*Community: fellows build a sense of community with other inspired individuals<br />
*Public Service: Fellows are doing a public good, both for local communities and America<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
*Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students). &nbsp;Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (''a) ''give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans''''', ('''b'')'''&nbsp;c'''reate a role-model/success story, ''(c)''&nbsp;build support for this lifestyle as a career path.<br />
*By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
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''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
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[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Organization:Cornell_BOOM&diff=4547Organization:Cornell BOOM2014-02-26T22:08:19Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<div>= Overview =<br />
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[http://ventureforamerica.org/ Venture for America] was founded in 2011 by Andrew Yang to train and place talented college graduates at start-up companies located in struggling cities. Modeled after [http://www.teachforamerica.org/ Teach for America], Venture for America seeks to revitalize America through entrepreneurship, while enabling opportunity and restoring an American culture of achievement. [[File:Ventureforamerica.png|frame|Ventureforamerica.png]]Since its inception, the organization has trained almost 100 fellows (today applications exceed availability), given fellows access to upwards of $100k in yearly seed funding and facilitated their placement in cities including Detroit, Cincinatti and New Orleans.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Purpose =<br />
<br />
Graduating from Columbia Law School, Andrew Yang was conflicted with what to do for his career. &nbsp;As with many other young professionals, Yang knew the options outside of working on Wall Street were slim and likely career-diverting. &nbsp;After working with, and starting several companies (rising to the rank of CEO in Manhattan GMAT), Yang founded Venture for America, to increase the accessibility to the start-up process for college graduates.<br />
<br />
The problem today is that qualified college graduates crave hands-on business experience to learn how to start a business. &nbsp;Meanwhile, start-up companies struggle to hire due to lack of resources since they have yet to establish their brand. &nbsp;Venture for America bridges this gap; the organization gives companies access to high quality, motivated young workers.<br />
<br />
Overall, the goal is to funnel top young people into American startups, socialize them and provide future structures and role models for others. &nbsp;Venture fo America wishes to rebrand entrepreneurship as the most prestigious professional aspiration, as evident in one of their mottos: "Smart people should build things."&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =<br />
<br />
== Venture for America Fellowship ==<br />
<br />
After acceptance into the program, fellows commit to training and a two year commitment of work.<br />
<br />
Through training, fellows are given the skills to hit the ground running. &nbsp;Training sessions include lectures, visits from investors, website design challenges and practice with business creation. &nbsp;By the end of training, fellows are well versed in finance modeling, sales, public relations, branding, marketing and basic business/office etiquette.<br />
<br />
Fellows are then matched with the company of best fit to them through an intense match-making process including preferences and phone/in person interviews. &nbsp;Companies must be able to show high growth potential (energy, biotech, health, information, technology, consumer markets) and are required to commit to $32-38k in salary (plus benefits), pay $2,500 to fund the fellow's training, and agree to actively growing the candidate (e.g. onthly sit-downs with the CEO).<br />
<br />
Fun Fact: Venture for America will still try and connect applicants with potential start-ups if they are not accepted into the fellowship.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
<br />
Venture for America appeals to young professionals in a few ways:<br />
<br />
*Prestige: looks good on a resume and has the reputation of attracting ivy league talent<br />
*Progress: brings young professionals to the next level in their careers<br />
*Opportunity: keeps doors open<br />
*Money: workers are compensated for their work<br />
*Skills: fellows gain skills and training for anything and everything they will face<br />
*Community: fellows build a sense of community with other inspired individuals<br />
*Public Service: Fellows are doing a public good, both for local communities and America<br />
<br />
= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =<br />
<br />
*Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students). &nbsp;Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (''a) ''give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans''''', ('''b'')'''&nbsp;c'''reate a role-model/success story, ''(c)''&nbsp;build support for this lifestyle as a career path.<br />
*By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =<br />
<br />
Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:&nbsp;<br />
<br />
#Schedule an event. &nbsp;Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. &nbsp;If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar:&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org/events/ http://ventureforamerica.org/events/]), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).<br />
#Become a VFA campus ambassador. &nbsp;Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." &nbsp;For more information see: [http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/].<br />
<br />
= Contact Information =<br />
<br />
'''Mailing Address:'''<br/>Venture for America<br/>c/o Eileen Lee<br/>40 West 29th St., Suite 301<br/>New York, NY 10001<br />
<br />
'''info@ventureforamerica.org'''&nbsp; &nbsp; | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''(646) 736-6460'''<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
<br />
[1]&nbsp;[http://ventureforamerica.org&nbsp http://ventureforamerica.org&amp;nbsp];<br />
<br />
[2]&nbsp;[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=DpBX&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2371142341380851232981&amp;srchindex=7&amp;srchtotal=687&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary]<br />
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''Also see:''<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/venture4america https://twitter.com/venture4america]<br />
<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&amp;feature=youtu.be]&nbsp;(Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)<br />
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[[Category:Resources]]</div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=User:Anish_dalal&diff=4487User:Anish dalal2014-02-26T18:21:24Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Bio'''</span></span><br />
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<font size="3">Anish is a 3rd year Biomedical engineering major and Engineering Business minor at the University of Virginia. Much of his work has focused on the cardiovascular system. He has been a research assitant in the Cardiac Systems Biology laboratory for over a year and a half and is collaborating with various researchers to study mechanisms that can cause heart failure. Anish received funding from the UVa SEAS Entrepreneurship Cup competition for pitching a mobile Congestive Heart Failure monitor that can quantify the progression of certain symptoms and help improve treatment. He is currently collaborating with researchers in the Electrical Engineering Department on build a working prototype and this experience has sparked his interest in entrepreneurship. In his spare time, Anish loves to play any sport, cheer on the UVa basketball team, and hangout with friends.</font><br />
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<span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">'''EMTV'''</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span></div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=User:Anish_dalal&diff=4485User:Anish dalal2014-02-26T18:20:39Z<p>Anish dalal: </p>
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<span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Bio'''</span></span><br />
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<font size="3">Anish is a 3rd year Biomedical engineering major and Engineering Business minor at the University of Virginia. Much of his work has focused on the cardiovascular system. He has been a research assitant in the Cardiac Systems Biology laboratory for over a year and a half and is collaborating with various researchers to study mechanisms that can cause heart failure. Anish received funding from the UVa SEAS Entrepreneurship Cup competition for pitching a mobile Congestive Heart Failure monitor that can quantify the progression of certain symptoms and help improve treatment. He is currently collaborating with researchers in the Electrical Engineering Department on build a working prototype and this experience has sparked his interest in entrepreneurship. In his spare time, Anish loves to play any sport, cheer on the UVa basketball team, and hangout with friends.</font><br />
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<span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">'''EMTV'''</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anish is the president of a new club called the Emerging Medical Technolgy Ventures or EMTV at UVa. The club's vision is to organize fun and engaging events such as hackathons that bring students of different majors and skillsets together and tackle clinical needs and design challenges in the field of medical technology. The ultimate goal is to form interdisciplinary teams that can turn ideas into useful products.&nbsp;</span></div>Anish dalalhttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=File:Anish_Dalal.jpg&diff=4483File:Anish Dalal.jpg2014-02-26T18:19:24Z<p>Anish dalal: Anish dalal uploaded a new version of &quot;File:Anish Dalal.jpg&quot;</p>
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