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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4bb73c0b-8797-1cc8-1672-2a52257f2a5f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sean Farrell is a sophomore mechanical engineer at Union College in Schenectady, New York. &nbsp;Sean joined the Epicenter movement because he feels as though most schools in the higher education system are not really doing everything they can to provide students with a truly well rounded knowledge and insight based outlook on society. Sean wants to work on making the liberal arts aspect of Union College more of an immersive experience for engineers because he values the power of a combined engineering and liberal arts education. &nbsp;Sean has been interested in entrepreneurial movements since he was young, and hopes that the University Innovation Fellows program will help him broaden his entrepreneurial horizons. &nbsp;</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-37714b0c-4dd4-3cff-4414-ed3c056a8202"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Sean Farrell is a motivated, empathetic, inspiring individual who immerses himself in the entrepreneurial mindset; the cognitive directive to seek out problems, develop analytical processes, and act on a solution. &nbsp;He has diligently developed the entrepreneurial mindset throughout his life, further enhanced as a result of becoming a University Innovation Fellow. &nbsp;From campus-related issues to global issues, Sean strives to create tangible results. &nbsp;In particular, Sean has worked with another University Innovation Fellow to implement Union College’s first collaborative space - the Idea Lab. &nbsp;He has planned events to foster innovative thinking, such as bringing in the VP of Etsy, a leading e-commerce marketplace with a mission. &nbsp;Furthermore, he is currently in the process of designing an interdisciplinary study-abroad program which focuses on creating tangible solutions to problems in developing countries. &nbsp;Sean dedicates himself to igniting innovative solutions, no matter how difficult the challenge.</span></span>
 
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Sean Farrell is a motivated, empathetic, inspiring individual who immerses himself in the entrepreneurial mindset; the cognitive directive to seek out problems, develop analytical processes, and act on a solution.  He has diligently developed the entrepreneurial mindset throughout his life, further enhanced as a result of becoming a University Innovation Fellow.  From campus-related issues to global issues, Sean strives to create tangible results.  In particular, Sean has worked with another University Innovation Fellow to implement Union College’s first collaborative space - the Idea Lab.  He has planned events to foster innovative thinking, such as bringing in the VP of Etsy, a leading e-commerce marketplace with a mission.  Furthermore, he is currently in the process of designing an interdisciplinary study-abroad program which focuses on creating tangible solutions to problems in developing countries.  Sean dedicates himself to igniting innovative solutions, no matter how difficult the challenge.



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