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Fellow:Rory Pannkuk

2017-02-17T04:51:25Z

Rpannkuk:

Rory Pannkuk is currently a sophomore at Santa Clara University pursuing a double major in Finance and Economics from the SCU Leavey School of Business. 

A recipient of the Dean's Scholarship and a member of the University Honors Program at SCU, Rory is devoted to making a lasting impact on the world around him. He is involved in numerous organizations on and off campus related to both business and computer science and is the treasurer of Santa Clara University's Innovation and Design (SCID) club. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, business, finance, mathematics, physics, politics, wheelchair fencing, golf and the Boston Red Sox.

As an executive member of SCID, Rory helps manage the finances of the club and raise school awareness regarding the importance of innovative thinking. He was on the winning team of the 2016 Winter and Spring SCU School of Engineering's $2,500 Quarterly Design Challenge representing SCID where he helped oversee the design and implementation of enhanced security features for a surveillance robot as well as helped design and manufacture the production of customized school-spirited smartphone stands. He was also the first place winner of SCID's 2016 annual Designathon where he helped design the blueprints of a smartphone navigation app that assists school commuters in estimating travel time through the customization of various modes of transportation that are specifically available to them.

He plans on improving the innovative and creative environment at Santa Clara and hopes to carry those skills beyond his undergraduate career to a potential graduate institution or business. 

Rory can be contacted at rqpannkuk@gmail.com.

Related Links

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Will_McMullen William McMullen]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Mjbelford Matt Belford]

[[Andrew Torrance|A]][[Andrew Torrance|ndrew Torrance]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University SCU Campus Page]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University_Student_Priorities SCU Student Priorities]

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Rory Pannkuk

2017-02-16T22:41:15Z

Rpannkuk:

Rory Pannkuk is currently a sophomore at Santa Clara University pursuing a double major in Finance and Economics from the SCU Leavey School of Business. 

A recipient of the Dean's Scholarship and a member of the University Honors Program at SCU, Rory is devoted to making a lasting impact on the world around him. He is involved in numerous organizations on and off campus related to both business and computer science and is the treasurer of Santa Clara University's Innovation and Design (SCID) club. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, business, finance, mathematics, physics, politics, wheelchair fencing, golf and the Boston Red Sox.

As an executive member of SCID, Rory helps manage the finances of the club and raise school awareness regarding the importance of innovative thinking. He was on the winning team of the 2016 Winter and Spring SCU School of Engineering's $2,500 Quarterly Design Challenge representing SCID where he helped oversee the design and implementation of enhanced security features for a surveillance robot as well as helped design and manufacture the production of customized school-spirited smartphone stands. He was also the first place winner of SCID's 2016 annual Designathon where he helped design the blueprints of a smartphone navigation app that assists school commuters in estimating travel time through the customization of various modes of transportation that are specifically available to them.

He plans on improving the innovative and creative environment at Santa Clara and hopes to carry those skills beyond his undergraduate career to a potential graduate institution or business. 

Rory can be contacted at rqpannkuk@gmail.com.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

School:Santa Clara University

2017-01-19T07:16:39Z

Rpannkuk:

Santa Clara University

Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Santa Clara University has many institutions perfect for growing its students entrepreneurial skills.  A very popular minor at the school is entrepreneurship, where students take classes in many different business disciplines.  This minor also includes an internship with a start up in the Silicon Valley.  The school also offers many clubs such as Santa Clara Innovation and Design, which teaches design methodologies where the curriculum falls short, and Santa Clara Entrepreneurs Organization, which organizes entrepreneurial events such as an elevator pitch comptetition. There are also many events run through the school such as the KEEN Entrepreneurial Mindset Challenge and the SCID Designathon.

Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Being in the Silicon Valley, a lot of the professors here at Santa Clara come from entrepreneurial professions.  Many teachers in the business school teach with the entrepreneurial mindset, and give real world examples from their own experiences.  Often, faculty also have important relationships with start up companies and encourage these companies to come speak on campus.  Professors also get many grants that the hand off to students to encourage entrepreneurship.  For example in 2008, the engineering school was given a very large grant to grow the entrepreneurial opportunities on campus, and that they have.  Every single senior must create their own design product, considering many entrepreneurial ideals.  

Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function

The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus facilitates the transfer of technology to students.  It runs various programs and brings speakers on campus all in the name of entrepreneurship.  The center provides a network of connections to various companies and technologies so the students can best flourish in the entrepreneurial mindset.  Technology is also encouraged in the Maker Lab at Santa Clara University, where any student who goes through training can use the lab as much as they wish and create anything they want there.  This very much encourages the creative mindset on campus.  

Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration

The university has many useful connections with companies in and out of the Silicon Valley.  The “Bronco Link” is a site where students can see job and internship postings for companies looking for Santa Clara University students.  There are many startups and entrepreneurial opportunities on the sight.  As stated earlier, there are also very many useful connections with teachers.  Since so many teachers have worked in industry in is very easy to ask a teacher to set up an interview, and all teachers are willing to help.  

Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts  

Santa Clara very much encourages its students to aid in regional and local economic efforts.  One very integral way is through the many jobs that Santa Clara University supplies the area with.  Students are given very many opportunities in the area and often stay to work in the area.  The school also runs collaborations with quite a few businesses in the area.  An example of this is the collaboration with NASA and the engineering school, in which many students can work.  The school also encourages its students to be socially responsible in all things including promoting charitable programs in dorms, and even requiring a class that works with some kind of charity.  Santa Clara very much cares and utilizes the surrounding area in a beneficial way.

Landscape Canvas  

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L3lAsrLGTAMQmXXNDKrs7w5WYepVfGsyUq-L6UEsLn8/edit#gid=0 Here is a link] to our Landscape Canvas assessment which breaks down and highlights the courses, programs, and organizations that promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship on our campus.

'''Related Links'''

'''Santa Clara University'''

[[Santa Clara University Student Priorities|Santa Clara University Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellow:

[[Laura Tschudy|Laura Tschudy]], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Andrew_Torrance Andrew Torrance], [[Rory_Pannkuk|Rory Pannkuk]], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Will_McMullen Will Mcmullen,] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Mjbelford Matt Belford]

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Resource:How to Create a Student-Run Venture Accelerator

2017-01-11T07:25:09Z

Rpannkuk:

How to Create a Student-Run Venture Accelerator

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For many students, resources already exist to help them explore design thinking and the innovative mindset. However, once these students become skilled in applying this knowledge to their work and their studies, it becomes extremely difficult to engage themselves in the professional development they should experience before graduation. Student-run venture accelerators allow students to receive advice from other experienced students and professional connections as well as access to the funding necessary to bring their ideas to fruition.

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Not all universities are perfectly equipped for a student-run venture accelerator. To properly address entrepreneurialism on campus, the university must first have the resources to inspire an aura of innovation, through pop-up classes, makerspaces, student innovation unions, etc. Establishing an effective venture accelerator on your campus can be a lot of work, but without the proper conditions, it will likely fail due to low retention or funding. Venture accelerators are often the last step necessary to establish an environment on campus where students can freely explore and pursue their business ideas or products.

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The goal of a venture accelerator is simple: give students the funding, guidance, and resources they need to take an idea from the whiteboard and put it into the marketplace. As such, the organization should be structured to minimize internal costs, maximize separation from the institution, and streamline access to the accelerator’s benefits so that students with great ideas may get the resources they need.

In order to minimize the cost of the accelerator, the success of the organization hinges on the voluntary work of the members. This is best accomplished by having a very small crew of dedicated individuals with experience in in VC or business development initially, and slowly expanding the group as the organization grows.

Venture accelerators often may incite political issues from within your university, by frightening pre-existing organizations, creating I.P. conflicts, etc. Thus it can often be a good idea to ask for forgiveness, rather than permission, when creating a student-run accelerator. The separation that your organization will get from your superseding institution will allow you to have much more freedom for further development, but also can create funding conflicts, so connections to corporate sponsors is often essential. So long as you end up with a well structured organization that shows potential, your institution will be plenty approving.

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The largest issue that founders will face is, as with most education-oriented organizations, student retention. A mistake many over enthusiastic founders make is assuming everyone who comes out to their events will have the same eager interest in the material as they do, and often this assumption leads to overworking the students, who subsequently drop out. Individual motivation can easily decline over time if left unregulated so it is very important to talk with students as to why they may be losing interest. Balancing workload and results is a very tough game to play, but as a general rule, it is better to have large projects accomplished over the course of a quarter or potentially even the whole year than to force things to be done in a week’s worth of workshops. This structure encourages the most eager students will work above and beyond the call of duty, and thus gets students naturally involved and intrigued to help lead as the years go by.

Another major conflict such organizations will run into is students’ fear of failure. Promoting a business pitch or product idea is frightening enough on its own, but taking the next steps and putting in a large amount of time and effort into developing your own idea that certainly may, and statistically will fail… now that is a frightening prospect, especially to college students who already have plenty on their plate. In order to keep your students involved regardless of the potential of failure is to encourage them to live by the motto that failure is, in a way, success- you will learn and succeed from those failings. One way to do this is to have meetings focused around failure, where students can learn from professional examples of failed ventures to break the ice, and learn how to embrace their own failures and discuss them with the larger group, in order to identify their shortcomings and learn how not to run into those roadblocks next time around.

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The University Innovation program encourages its fellows to pursue Stakeholder meetings, wherein fellows will learn how to properly address the top tiers of authority at their university, including the provost, president, board, deans, etc. Through these meetings, fellows will develop connections with people who have a strong influence in making institutional change; for instance, if one would like to get their accelerator access to an entrepreneurial fund on campus, it may be imperative to reach out to the dean of the business school and devise a deal. It is also often a good idea to get valuable insight from faculty who may have experience developing similar programs in the past. They have also learned from these developments, and will apply their new knowledge of how to deal with shortcomings when they assist you in development as well.

Ultimately, by bringing the shortcomings of your institution straight to the higher-ups whose best interest is none other than the best interests of the university they represent, showing how and why this change is necessary, you will have the best luck convincing your administration to help you along the way. Talking with your administration at the most basic level and inquiring as to where and why there may be a disconnect will improve their degree of utility and can fundamentally increase your venture accelerator’s success.
<div> </div><div>Written by:</div><div> </div><div>Mauricio Morales, William Mcmullen, [[Rory_Pannkuk|Rory Pannkuk]], Christopher Tiffin</div>

Fellow:Rory Pannkuk

2017-01-06T06:56:33Z

Rpannkuk:

Rory Pannkuk is currently a sophomore at Santa Clara University pursuing a double degree in Economics and in Computer Science. 

A recipient of the Dean's Scholarship and a member of the University Honors Program at SCU, Rory is devoted to making a lasting impact on the world around him. He is involved in numerous organizations on and off campus related to both business and computer science and is the treasurer of Santa Clara University's Innovation and Design (SCID) club. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, business, finance, mathematics, physics, politics, wheelchair fencing, golf and the Boston Red Sox.

As an executive member of SCID, Rory helps manage the finances of the club and raise school awareness regarding the importance of innovative thinking. He was on the winning team of the 2016 Winter and Spring SCU School of Engineering's $2,500 Quarterly Design Challenge representing SCID where he helped oversee the design and implementation of enhanced security features for a surveillance robot as well as helped design and manufacture the production of customized school-spirited smartphone stands. He was also the first place winner of SCID's 2016 annual Designathon where he helped design the blueprints of a smartphone navigation app that assists school commuters in estimating travel time through the customization of various modes of transportation that are specifically available to them.

He plans on improving the innovative and creative environment at Santa Clara and hopes to carry those skills beyond his undergraduate career to a potential graduate institution or business. 

Rory can be contacted at rqpannkuk@gmail.com.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Rory Pannkuk

2017-01-06T06:55:09Z

Rpannkuk:

Rory Pannkuk is currently a sophomore at Santa Clara University pursuing a double degree in Economics and in Computer Science. 

A recipient of the Dean's Scholarship and a member of the University Honors Program at SCU, Rory is devoted to making a lasting impact on the world around him. He is involved in numerous organizations on and off campus related to both business and computer science and is the treasurer of Santa Clara University's Innovation and Design (SCID) club. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, business, finance, mathematics, physics, politics, wheelchair fencing, golf and the Boston Red Sox.

As an executive member of SCID, Rory helps manage the finances of the club and raised school awareness regarding the importance of innovative thinking. He was on the winning team of the 2016 Winter and Spring SCU School of Engineering's $2,500 Quarterly Design Challenge representing SCID where he helped oversee the design and implementation of enhanced security features for a surveillance robot as well as helped design and manufacture the production of customized school-spirited smartphone stands. He was also the first place winner of SCID's 2016 annual Designathon where he helped design the blueprints of a smartphone navigation app that assists school commuters in estimating travel time through the customization of various modes of transportation that are specifically available to them.

He plans on improving the innovative and creative environment at Santa Clara and hopes to carry those skills beyond his undergraduate career to a potential graduate institution or business. 

Rory can be contacted at rqpannkuk@gmail.com.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Rory Pannkuk

2017-01-06T06:54:35Z

Rpannkuk:

Rory Pannkuk is currently a sophomore at Santa Clara University pursuing a double degree in Economics and in Computer Science. 

A recipient of the Dean's Scholarship and a member of the University Honors Program at SCU, Rory is devoted to making a lasting impact on the world around him. He is involved in numerous organizations on and off campus related to both business and computer science and is the treasurer of Santa Clara University's Innovation and Design (SCID) club. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, business, finance, mathematics, physics, politics, wheelchair fencing, golf and the Boston Red Sox.

As an executive member of SCID, Rory helps manage the finances of the club and raised school awareness regarding the importance of innovative thinking. He was on the winning team of the 2016 Winter and Spring SCU School of Engineering's $2,500 Quarterly Design Challenge representing SCID where he helped oversee the design and implementation of enhanced security features for a surveillance robot as well as helped design and manufacture the production of customized school-spirited smartphone stands. He was also the first place winner of SCID's 2016 annual Designathon where he helped design the blueprints of a smartphone navigation app that assists school commuters in estimating travel time through the customization of various modes of transportation that are specifically available to them.

He plans on improving the innovative and creative environment at Santa Clara and hopes to carry those skills beyond his undergraduate career to a potential graduate institution or business. 

Rory can be contacted at rqpannkuk@gmail.com.

[[Category:Student Contributor|Student_Contributor]]

Fellow:Rory Pannkuk

2017-01-06T06:50:23Z

Rpannkuk:

Rory Pannkuk is currently a sophomore at Santa Clara University pursuing a double degree in Economics and in Computer Science. 

A recipient of the Dean's Scholarship and a member of the University Honors Program at SCU, Rory is devoted to making a lasting impact on the world around him. He is involved in numerous organizations on and off campus related to both business and computer science and is the treasurer of Santa Clara University's Innovation and Design (SCID) club. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, business, finance, mathematics, physics, politics, wheelchair fencing, golf and the Boston Red Sox.

As an executive member of SCID, Rory helps manage the finances of the club and raised school awareness regarding the importance of innovative thinking. He was on the winning team of the 2016 Winter and Spring SCU School of Engineering's $2,500 Quarterly Design Challenge representing SCID where he helped oversee the design and implementation of enhanced security features for a surveillance robot as well as helped design and manufacture the production of customized school-spirited smartphone stands. He was also the first place winner of SCID's 2016 annual Designathon where he helped design the blueprints of a smartphone navigation app that assists school commuters in estimating travel time through the customization of various modes of transportation that are specifically available to them.

He plans on improving the innovative and creative environment at Santa Clara and hopes to carry those skills beyond his undergraduate career to a potential graduate institution or business. 

Rory can be contacted at rqpannkuk@gmail.com.

Fellow:Rory Pannkuk

2017-01-06T06:46:59Z

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Rory Pannkuk is currently a sophomore at Santa Clara University pursuing a double degree in Economics and in Computer Science. 

A recipient of the Dean's Scholarship and a member of the University Honors Program at SCU, Rory is devoted to making a lasting impact on the world around him. He is involved in numerous organizations on and off campus related to both business and computer science and is the treasurer of Santa Clara University's Innovation and Design (SCID) club. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, business, finance, mathematics, physics, politics, wheelchair fencing, golf and the Boston Red Sox.

As an executive member of SCID, Rory helps manage the finances of the club and raised school awareness regarding the importance of innovative thinking. He was on the winning team of the 2016 Winter and Spring SCU School of Engineering's $2,500 Quarterly Design Challenge representing SCID where he helped oversee the design and implementation of enhanced security features for a surveilance robot as well as helped design and manufacture the production of customized school-spirited smartphone stands. He was also the first place winner of SCID's 2016 annual Designathon where he helped design the blueprints of a smartphone navigation app that assists school commuters in estimating travel time through the customization of various modes of transportation that are specifically available to them.

He plans on improving the innovative and creative environment at Santa Clara and hopes to carry those skills beyond his undergraduate career to a potential graduate institution or business. 

Rory can be contacted at rqpannkuk@gmail.com.

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