Organization:Team Awareness

Overview

Team Awareness works on strategies to reach other students with the message that Innovation and Entrepreneurship are important activities to engage in while at college. Expanding one's entrepreneurial mindset allows students to explore their creative and innovative potential, work on projects that acheive social impact, build one's project/resume portfolio and cultivates the skill sets that contribute to one's future employer, be it a business or non-profit setting.

Standing Meeting Time

Next meeting:

Team Members

Team Leaders:

1) Yifan Ge

2) Brittany Wouden

Team Members:

• Nolan Nicholson, University of Nevada, Reno
• Valerie Sherry, University of Maryland College Park
• Dean Tate, Texas A & M University
• Graham Leslie, Texas A & M University
• Katelyn Stenger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Mridul Bhandari, Pennsylvania State University
• Yifan Ge, Bucknell University
• Ellery Addington-White, Beloit College
• Jennifer Mayo, Oklahoma State University
• Brittany Wouden, Washington State University Vancouver

Topics

• Events That Inspire
• Courses
• How-to Workshops

Meeting Notes and Shared Resources

Meeting Format: Brainstorm projects and ideas with Team Members. Discuss challenges faced and possible solutions.

Team Discussion:

Ellery

• Most helpful to see successful examples of programs, entrepreneurial tour of the area
• See what successful incubators and taking advantage of what resources present such as:On campus Groups & Classes--- take advantage of network of students and professors in the community
• Emphasize the success in the community.  
• Sustainability + Community + Entrepreneurship =Success!

Nolan

• When people see the good that the I&E world in action they become inspired
• Programs help professionally and help the innovators help others. Suggestion for spreading this message: shadows, tours anything that lets people get directly into the action.  

Mridul

• Ultimate Trader Challenge etc to insipre I&E in community
• Some of the things missing are workshops so not much that students can do as far as workshops to do.  There’s no way to get experience out there.  She is working to build a website to increase communication between students, alumni, local entrepreneurs to get people pumped up for entrepreneurship.  

Yifan

• Leverage the infrastructure and bring people together
• Proposing a weekly event to bring people together to share ideas and create synergy.  

Katelyn

• Also wants to establish a 'Maker's Space" on campus. Allow for multidisiplinary thinking.

MAJOR FOCUS: Compile Resources

If clubs work together and cooperate they can do more work and more good combined.

-Ellery mentioned a weekly speaker series.  Successful entrepreneurs love to share “horror” stories and go on and on.  He mentioned asking speakers to speak about one aspect of their success.  Give them specifics to go off of so that you narrow the topic and answer questions.  Have a facilitator. Get graduate students involved.  Use the resources you already have.

-Nolan: one of the coolest thing is that its like a flywheel - feedback loop which goes on and on forever.  Lots of options.